IAG Blog
Blog: What Every Executive Needs to Know About Hiring Business Analysts
The ability to hire great people is one of those skills that differentiate hugely productive managers from the mediocre. When dealing with a specific project, it gets even tougher with the number of distractions, time sensitivities and need to fill head-count numbers...
Blog: The Future of the Business Analyst
Many of us are in that crucial planning point of the year when we're looking forward to what our key initiatives will be for 2010, and with this forward-looking mindset, I thought it might be fun to look forward 10 years or so and speculate on the future of the...
Blog: The Pendulum Swing of Organizations
I wonder if organizations give out awards for surviving the most reorganizations in a single decade to particular business functions. I'm thinking that most analysts get to experience this frequently as the pendulum of organizational design swings from housing...
Blog: Microcast – The Business Analysis Benchmark Report
Find the path to success in business requirements definition and management. Technology pervades almost every aspect of corporate competitiveness from customer experience to the products and services offered. Companies that do a poor...
Blog: Analysis versus Needs Analysis
Most analysts can do analysis...but very few can really be proactive in helping customers figure out their needs. Executives routinely complain about analysts being passive on projects, not proactive, or inconsistent in their execution. I think this is a real...
Blog: 5 Factors Determining Use Case Form
Determining the form of Use Case for a project is a key planning step and is essentially a communication issue. Since each team member will have a different idea of what Use Cases are, clarity is required. This is necessary for organizing work teams, and provides a...