What does your BA-Developer relationship look like?

Michael F. White, Founder of The Business Analysis Doctor, LLC

As a business analyst, one of the most valuable skills you can acquire is the ability to build relationships. This in itself may have more of an impact on your long-term BA career than your business knowledge and technical skills. Because BAs are often key participants in so many different projects and initiatives, it can be difficult to nurture all of the relationships established throughout your organization. The relationship that I will be focusing on, however, is the relationship with the developer(s). Below are some tactics we as BAs can use to make developers’ lives easier and enhance the business analyst-developer relationship...

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Non-Functional Requirements - Why do we need them?

Ananya Pani, Co-Founder, Adapative US 

What do you put down in non-functional requirements when you are documenting requirements in your project? When we say non-functional we typically mean those requirements that are not related to functionality of the system, then what exactly are these and why do we need them.

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Practical Approach To Elicit Requirements Successfully

Roshini Nagpal, Seasoned IT Professional

Project statistics state that most project rework/failure is due to incomplete/improper/unclear requirements, hence the role the Business Analyst becomes even more critical as they shoulder a huge responsibility of eliciting and collaborating with the stakeholders to obtain clear, concise and complete requirements.  The elicitation and collaboration knowledge area focuses on drawing forth or receiving information from stakeholders and other sources by directly interacting with stakeholders, researching topics, experimenting or simply being handed information...

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Stakeholders Relationship: How to Make Your Stakeholders Like You?

Adam Alami, PhD Fellow, IT University of Copenhagen

Business Requirements Advocacy is neglected in the business analysis practice!  Once considered to be an essential part of IT teams, the business analyst has become an integral position in any successful, market-driven organisation. Rightly said to be the change agents for any business, business analysts help organisations adapt to the changing environment while meeting the needs and demands of all their stakeholders, including employees, customers, and suppliers...

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