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Golden Rules for Business Analysts
Like all professions, business analysis has its golden rules – rules that are fundamental to the design of successful business systems. They might seem like common sense but it’s surprising how often we forget them and get ourselves into hot water.
Here’s a short list of some of the more relevant ones:
The sooner you find a problem, the cheaper it is to fix
Get the specifications right
Recognise the total cost of a system
Don’t design the solution before you’ve analysed the problem
What applies to small systems doesn’t apply to large ones
Don’t allocate conflicting roles in a project to the same person
Now let’s have a look at what they mean, together with some real life examples witnessed by the author...
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