It can be difficult to keep up with the most popular business analysis techniques. Do you know which methodology analysts have the most experience using? How about diagramming techniques? We conducted a survey of over 1,100 business analysts (68% with over 5 years experience) which gave some interesting results as to what business analysis techniques are the most popular. Methodologies When it comes to software development methodologies, 68% said they had experience with waterfall development, 46% said iterative whilst object-oriented…
Continue ReadingThere’s More to Modelling than Runways and Catwalks
02/06/2014 |
By IRM Training
How often have you seen a TV clip from a fashion show – Milan, London, New York – and thought to yourself “What on earth are the models wearing?!”. Business analysts can be guilty of something similar. Sure it’s a model, but what does it mean, what’s it trying to say? In the fashion industry, models are used to communicate (to bring to life) a designer’s ideas and creations. But they also go one step further – helping us the…
Continue ReadingMind Mapping Requirements
10/06/2010 |
By IRM Training
Mind mapping was popularised by Tony Buzan and is one way to assist in the problem of: Keeping up with meetings because you can’t take notes as fast as the speaker talks Making sense of your notes at a later time (many people say they can go back to a mind map months later and understand the flow and intent of the meeting – and its outcomes) There is no right or wrong way to create a mind map. Some…
Continue ReadingCreative Thinking Techniques
11/05/2007 |
By IRM Training
This extract from IRM’s training material looks at how systematic, creative thinking techniques can be used to design practical solutions to business problems. Successful designs don’t just happen. Whilst we can sometimes get ‘flashes of brilliance’, successful designs are more likely to occur as part of a systematic process. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Read full paper: Creative Thinking Techniques If you liked…
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