Tag: business-analysis
All the articles with the tag "business-analysis".
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BA vs PO vs PM: the difference nobody writes about honestly
Every article on this compares the three roles by their textbook definitions. None of them admit the truth: the boundaries are drawn by org politics and budget, not by any clean division of work. Here's how it actually plays out.
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INVEST and SPIDR both miss the point
INVEST is older. SPIDR is newer. The endless debate about which is better misses a structural flaw both share. They tell you whether a story is well-formed. They don't tell you whether it's worth building.
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Most stakeholder conflicts are authority disputes, not requirements disputes
When a stakeholder refuses to discuss a request, the standard advice is "ask better questions". This is almost always wrong. The problem is rarely communication. It's that nobody has agreed who gets to decide what, and the stakeholder is defending territory they're not sure they own.
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Acceptance criteria that actually prevent bugs (with 12 worked examples)
Most acceptance criteria are written to look thorough, not to prevent bugs. Here's what the criteria that actually catch defects look like, with twelve real examples annotated.