A Business Analyst’s Best Friends: The Business Manager

BAs need information. The best BAs get information by building and maintaining strong relationships with all project team members. From the CIO to the front-line employees, BAs rely on many “friends”. BAs need to anticipate their friends’ needs and learn how to...

A Business Analyst’s Best Friends: The CIO

Successful BAs are the calm, center point of the project storm. They evaluate the people, roles, systems, and processes swirling around them. BAs find connections between the elements of the project storm. They make sure all of the moving pieces align. In order to...

Student Success Story

Facilitation skills matter! A great facilitator uses a variety of techniques to make meetings interactive and collaborative. No matter what types of meetings you lead, great facilitation skills will help you get more reliable and enthusiastic participation from your...

Boring Meetings?

Are your project meetings boring and ineffective? What do you see in your meeting room: heads resting on hands or arms, eyes on phones or laptops, people coming in late or leaving early, blank stares when you ask questions, hands paging forward through documents? What...

A Business Analyst’s Best Friends: The Business Sponsor

Successful BAs are the calm, center point of a complex group of interrelated people, roles, and processes. BAs maximize their value to the organization by ensuring the alignment of stakeholder needs and value. In order to promote alignment, BAs rely on strong...