What techniques and strategies serve business analysts best when it comes to working with stakeholders?
Carkenord: We have a lot of techniques. There are actually hundreds of analysis techniques. Part of the challenge is learning which works, because each project might necessitate a different way. Read an excerpt from Barbara Carkenord’s book “Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis” Chapter 1: Possess a Clear Understanding of Business Analysis is for those new to business analysis or who want to learn about the business analyst role. It explains what business analysis is, its role in software development, the role of a business analyst, and the traits of good business analysts. For a new BA starting out, we encourage using a real structured scoping technique to get the business people to agree what the objectives are. You can determine what are we doing and what are we trying to accomplish. Data requirements are also very important. And we encourage new BAs to use Entity Relationship Diagramming (ERD) to structure data. It’s a really good way to elicit requirements of what the needs
