Business Analysis
Discovery, stakeholder mapping and the craft of asking better questions.
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Resources
Writing about the craft, not about the tool
Business analysis is a discipline with real technique in it. This is where we publish what we have learned about doing it well — including where software should stay out of the way.
Topics
What we write about
Requirements
Writing requirements that survive a change-control conversation.
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Statements of Work
Scope, exclusions and acceptance criteria that hold up.
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Product Requirements
Outcomes over feature lists, and the measures that prove them.
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Estimation
Defensible numbers, and what moves them.
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Risk Management
Registers that get used rather than filed.
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Client Proposals
The document that has to persuade, not just comply.
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AI-assisted BA
Where generation helps, and where judgement still has to.
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In the meantime
The product pages carry the method
Much of what we would write in a guide is already stated where it applies: why the deliverables are generated in dependency order, why exclusions carry the same weight as inclusions, why a truncated brief has to announce itself.
The product is the shortest explanation
Run one engagement through it and the method above stops being theory.