Why UX/UI and Business Analysis Belong in the Same Room
There’s a pattern I’ve seen on more than a few platform rollouts. The business analyst writes the requirements. The designer picks them up afterwards, then makes them look good. Development builds it, testing signs it off, the thing goes live. Six weeks later the support tickets start. Not because the requirements were wrong exactly. More […]
How to Get Time Poor SMEs to Give You Information, Then Actually Review the Document
Every technical writer hits the same wall eventually. The document is 90% done. It just needs 1 subject matter expert to confirm a few details, then sign off. That expert is a senior engineer with 40 meetings a week, a system outage to manage, plus 3 other projects asking for the same thing. Your document […]
Why People Skills Matter More Than Technique for a Business Analyst
You can learn the technical side of business analysis in about 6 months. Requirements templates, process notation, user stories, traceability matrices, gap analysis. It’s all learnable, all documented, all fairly consistent from one organisation to the next. What takes years is the other part. Getting a room full of people who disagree to tell you […]
Digital Transformation Projects Run on People, Not Plans
I’ve worked on programs with excellent methodology that went badly. I’ve worked on messy ones that landed well. The difference was never the framework. It was who was in the room, how they got on, whether anyone was willing to say the difficult thing out loud. That’s not a soft observation. On a program with […]
BPMN 2.0 Process Mapping Best Practices With Stakeholders
BPMN 2.0 is one of the clearest ways to represent how work actually happens.It creates a shared language across business and technical teams.It reduces ambiguity and helps organisations see their processes end to end. But BPMN 2.0 only works well when the right information is captured.That information does not live in tools or systems alone.It […]
How to Spot Broken Processes Before AI Makes Them Better to Optimise
🔍 Why Broken Processes Matter in the Age of AI AI promises speed, automation, and efficiency. But if a process is broken, AI doesn’t fix it — it magnifies the flaws. Automating a slow, inefficient, or inconsistent workflow only makes mistakes happen faster. That’s why stakeholders need to identify broken processes before AI is introduced. […]
🔍SIPOC for Business Analysts Who Want a Clear Starting Point
If you’ve ever tried mapping a messy process and didn’t know where to start, SIPOC is your friend. It’s simple. It’s quick. And it helps you get your head around the whole thing before diving into the details. 🔍 So, what’s SIPOC? SIPOC stands for: It’s basically a high-level view of any process. From start […]
🧠Stakeholder Management for Analysts – How to Win Buy-In and Influence Decisions
Stakeholder management is one of the most overlooked skills for analysts. But it’s also one of the most important. It’s not just about creating clean documents or mapping processes. It’s about getting people on board and making sure your work leads to decisions and real change. If you can’t get buy-in, your recommendations often sit […]
đź“Ť Why Process Mapping Matters for Business Analysts
It’s one of the most essential tools in a business analyst’s kit. Process mapping isn’t just a nice-to-have. If you’re trying to improve how a business works, you need to understand how it actually works. That’s where process mapping comes in. 🔎 See the Work Clearly When teams describe what they do, it often sounds […]