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Continue reading →: The Question Behind the Question: How Business Analysts Truly Add ValueAs a Business Analyst, you’re the bridge between business needs and technical solutions. You talk to stakeholders, gather requirements, and translate them into concrete specifications for developers. But how often does a project start, based on carefully collected wishes, and ultimately fail to deliver what the business truly needs? The…
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Continue reading →: What Is the Real Role of a Business Analyst?Being a Business Analyst isn’t just about gathering requirements or drawing process flows. It’s about solving real business problems, navigating change, and making sure what gets built actually delivers value. In this post, I break down what “delivering value” really means in our role—from improving processes and reducing waste to…
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Continue reading →: The New SEO Playbook: Adapting Your Content for Google’s Advanced AIGone are the days when SEO was just about keyword stuffing and backlinks. Today, Google’s algorithms are powered by cutting-edge AI models like BERT and MUM—designed to understand nuance, context, and even the why behind a search. If you want your content to rank now, you need to think beyond…
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Continue reading →: Storytelling: The Secret Skill Every Great BA NeedsWhen I first started as a BA, I thought business analysis was supposed to be about models, requirements, and process maps. Get into the details, map the flows and get perfect requirements. But I soon realised, that none of that really mattered if no one understood it. Because how I…
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Continue reading →: What are the principles of ethical AI?AI is transforming industries, but without ethical principles, it can cause more harm than good. Understanding AI ethics means recognizing core principles like transparency, fairness, accountability, and privacy. But ethical AI goes beyond basics—it also demands reliability, security, inclusiveness, and explainability. These principles ensure AI is fair, safe, and trustworthy.…
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Continue reading →: Did I Always Get It Wrong? Understanding Business Requirements vs. User RequirementsWhen I started out as a Business Analyst, I thought I had a solid grasp on requirements—until I realized I’d been confusing user requirements with business requirements all along. That little misunderstanding? It made a big difference. In this article, I break down the critical distinction between business, user, and…
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Continue reading →: Your First 30 Days as a Business Analyst: The Unofficial Survival GuideNew to the Business Analyst role? This 30-day guide shares everything I wish I knew—from how to survive your first meetings to building stakeholder relationships and asking smart questions. A must-read for junior BAs!
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Continue reading →: “Am I Cut Out for This?”5 FAQs Every New BA Asks (and My Real Answers) Let’s just say it: the beginning of your Business Analyst journey can feel… a little like walking into a room where everyone else seems to know the clues except you. If you’ve ever Googled “do I need to be technical…
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Continue reading →: How I Use AI to Write Kickass User Stories in 5 MinutesWriting user stories should be simple. As a Business Analyst, you’re just trying to capture what the user wants, why they want it, and what success looks like. Easy, right? But somehow, many of us end up in story-writing purgatory: staring at a blank screen, endlessly rewriting, and plagued by…
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