In this episode, Tomette Kirk shares what she calls the high five; five essential tasks that we need to focus on as Business Analysts to be successful.
After listening to this episode, you'll understand:
- What essential tasks are needed for success as a business analyst
- The right way to do stakeholder analysis
- Why current state analysis is critical
- How to find gaps in a process or change
Show Notes
What are the essential tasks that can make or break a Business Analyst?
To be successful as a Business Analyst, we need to perform five critical tasks. They’re what Tomette Kirk refers to as the ‘High Five”. Those tasks are:
- Stakeholder analysis
- Current state analysis
- Future state analysis
- Gap analysis
- Requirements management
These five tasks help us to involve the right people, understand where we are starting from, understand where we want to go, what needs to change, and provides clarity to the team.
When you combine the High Five with Tomette’s 5 part requirement (who does what, why, and done when), you have all of the elements for completing critical analysis work and creating a shared understanding.
Listen to this episode to understand how to apply Tomette’s high five approach to master the essentials of Business Analysis.
Your Homework
Use current state analysis on your next project. You need to know where you are now before you can discover where to go next.
Tomette Kirk
Tomette Kirk is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Business Analysis Resource Manager, former president of the Southeast WI IIBA Chapter, and a frequent industry speaker.
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Great episode! I listened to the podcast in the car, and I appreciate the repetition of the main points to keep me grounded in the message. I look forward to future episodes and will go back and listen to past episodes. And thanks for referring me to the web page! What a treasure store of resources!
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Great episode!
I listened to your podcast episode 150 on MBA.
I must it was really spot on. you talked about how user stories is simpliy not enough and why it was enough BUT you didn’t mention anything about acceptance criteria.
Am i missing something??
Tomette needs to create a training course! She is knowledgeable and articulate and can explain concepts in an easy to understand format. I found this podcast to be a great learning experience. I would buy an entire course of her content. Udemy, Skilshare types platforms she should think about creating content for sharing her knowledge.