Author Archives: Helen Winter
Business Requirements Document Checklist This article focusses on a checklist that can be applied to check the quality of requirements that have been written. It will help the author of a requirements document to be able to self-assess their work to aid the quality of the deliverable. It could also be used to create a common standard across… Read More »
Introduction When interacting with lots of different stakeholders there will be a high chance that at some point you will need to manage conflict either between other stakeholders or between another stakeholder(s) and you. How you handle this will have an impact on the success of what you achieve on the project and your wellbeing. Perspectives and gaps… Read More »
Helen Winter, an author based in the West Midlands, has been shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards for her book The Business Analysis Handbook. The Business Analysis Handbook is one of seven books within the Business Book Award’s Specialist Book 2020 category. Aimed at people interested in Business Analysis, the book deals with Techniques and Questions to… Read More »
Business analysis is such a wide area and needs to keep up with the latest market needs in order to ensure better business outcomes. Here is a summary of some of the key areas of change that impact it. Use of smart phones and social media The popularity of smart mobile phones and the increase of social media… Read More »
This is a recent podcast I did with Alison Jones. I did a 10-day Business Book Proposal Challenge with her and this helped me to get a publishing deal and write “The Business Analysis Handbook: Techniques and Questions to Deliver Better Business Outcomes“. The full transcript can be found on her website here or you can listen using… Read More »
I had a great time at the European Business Analysis Conference the other week. I wrote an article a few weeks ago about what I was looking forward to and why. These are my notes on the following talks that I thought you might find useful. They are on the following subject areas: Solution design Managing agile backlogs… Read More »
The European Business Analysis Conference is on for 3 days from the 23rd to the 25th September in London. It is hosted by the IIBA UK chapter (International Institute of Business Analysis), BCS – the Charted Institute of IT (British Computing Society) and AssistKD. I’ve been going for several years and it’s so great to have so many… Read More »
Much has changed since I started writing articles for Business Bullet. I have a book deal from a global publisher, Kogan Page to write a book on Business analysis. See the book page – The Business analysis handbook for more details on the book and reviews of it. This is available worldwide from September but can be pre-ordered.… Read More »
Introduction Design thinking is a customer centric approach putting the customer at the heart of the analysis to understand what they really need and uses techniques that focus on understanding them. This helps to innovate and generate new ideas. Your customers may well be the people in your workshop. Customer can mean the people who are benefitting from… Read More »
Planning and estimating a project can be difficult because it involves so many unknowns particularly near the beginning of a project. There are several Business Analysis tools that can help. This article is to provide an overview of some of these and an explanation of: Why they are useful for estimating; When best to use them; and How… Read More »