Declan Chellar

In a previous post I said that humility was one of the attributes business analysts should have. But analysts also need to be courageous, especially if they are to fulfil the role of Requirements Manager. Analysts who say “yes” to every request can be the ruination of a project. Such acquiescence can be based in [...]

You may have noticed the emphasis I place on visual modelling, which is fancy for “drawing pictures”. People can relate to pictures better than text in many contexts. Can you imagine an architect trying to document his building design textually? Unlike architectural drawings for a building, business analysis models are not literal. As such they [...]

Just as there is no single definition of what business analysis is, there is no one notion of what attributes a business analyst should have, so I thought I would write a series of short posts putting forward what I think makes a business analyst. You will notice that I said “attributes” and not skills, [...]