🧰 The BA Toolkit: 12 Must-Have Tools for Business and Process Analysts in 2025
Business analysts and process analysts need more than just Word and Excel these days.Our roles have expanded—digital transformation, AI integration, and cross-functional collaboration mean we need smarter tools to do better work, faster. After 18+ years in the field, here’s my shortlist of tools that help me work smarter, map clearer, and keep projects on […]
📄 Rewriting a Useless SOP into a Clean, Actionable Document Teams Actually Use
Some SOPs look clean. Most don’t. If you’ve ever opened a procedure doc and had no idea what the team actually does, you know what I’m talking about. I see this a lot in digital transformation projects. Legacy processes get lifted straight into new systems, but no one updates the docs to reflect what’s changed—or […]
🚀 Lessons I Learned Writing BRDs for a Project That Didn’t Go as Planned 🧠The Project That Taught Me the Most Not every project ends in success. Some fall short. But as a business analyst, those are the ones that teach you the most. I was brought into a digital transformation project for a […]
🧩 The Fix That Cut a Week from Onboarding Without Writing a Line of Code
In every digital transformation project, there’s usually one low-effort fix that saves hours of wasted time. This is one of those fixes. And it came from process mapping. 🧠The Context I was working as a business analyst on a digital onboarding rollout for a national education provider. They were moving from manual PDFs and […]
🧠Using AI as a Second Brain When Processes Make No Sense at First
Some business processes look simple—until you try to document them. Then you realise no one does it the same way, the steps are hidden, and the handoffs are undocumented. I hit this exact wall working on a digital transformation project for a national services provider. They were replacing three legacy systems with a unified platform. […]
