business analysis

Need a Convention Booth at CES for Your Mobile App?

The number of conventions dedicated to the gaming and mobile apps communities is growing, and so is the number of people attending them each year. We look at some of the most popular conventions nationwide and the costs for you to exhibit your projects.

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Noel Wurst
First Things First: Get the Business Analysis Basics in Place

While we can debate about best and better practices for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting requirements, many organizations have yet to adopt a requirements practice at all. When they do so, they will have the opportunity to realize significant benefits.

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Laura Brandenburg
Moving from Customer Focus to Market Focus

Being customer focused is supposed to be a good thing. But if you are focusing on a collection of individual customers and you’re not focusing on a market of customers, you have the customer part down, but you forgot the focus. Scott Sehlhorst offers guidelines for becoming market focused.

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Scott Sehlhorst
The Three Essential Elements of Business Analysis

No question is more ripe for debate than “What is a business analyst?” While I contend we’ve been doing business analysis since the very first human organizations were consciously formed, business analysis as a formal profession has emerged much more recently and has three essential elements.

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Laura Brandenburg
Google Fine-Tunes Mobile App Advertising, While Others Jump Ship

Google and Facebook need mobile app advertising dollars to begin rolling in, and each company is taking its own measures to increase those figures in the coming year. How are other companies addressing the issue? Noel Wurst takes a closer look in this story.

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Noel Wurst
Using Your Business Analysis Skills to Set Career Goals

As change professionals, it’s easy to neglect career development in the rush to finish projects and “get stuff done.” Why not use the business analysis tools and techniques that you use on projects to help plan your career development? Adrian Reed offers tips for using your BA skills to set goals.

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Adrian Reed
Making Process Changes in Days or Weeks, Not Months or Years

Business process improvement and the resulting change management are not for the faint of heart. Laura Brandenburg makes the case that BAs not only need to support organizations in changing more complex, decision-rich processes, but also in doing so faster—in days or weeks, not month or years.

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Laura Brandenburg
Behavior-Driven Development: The Outside-In Approach

Behavior-driven development (BDD) is a software development practice that is utilized by many agile teams. BDD is an evolution of test-driven development but with an important distinction—it is outside-in. Scott Sehlhorst provides a business analyst’s understanding of BDD.

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Scott Sehlhorst