Empower Your BA Capability 

Empower Your BA Capability 

8 January 2021

5 practices for better requirements

Writing requirements is not an easy task. It requires discipline and preparation, especially if you define requirements in a natural language. Many professionals dislike this activity and perceive it as dull and tedious. Ivy Hooks discussed this phenomenon and listed improvements that an organization can pursue to change this situation. 
18 December 2024

Identify Your Stakeholders Through Nomination

The stakeholder nomination technique is not a new concept; it has been used for decades as a practical way to identify relevant stakeholders in projects and decision-making processes. Its origins are rooted in basic principles of stakeholder theory and collaborative identification methods that have been widely recognized in management and organizational literature.
13 March 2026

The Volere Snow Card

Business analysts often face a common challenge when gathering requirements. Stakeholders tend to focus on solutions instead of their actual needs. As a result, important requirements can stay hidden. At a recent workshop, someone brought up this exact problem. His stakeholders kept talking about solutions instead of the problem they wanted to solve.
11 May 2026

Why Your SWOT Analysis Is Only Half Finished

Most business analysts have filled in a SWOT matrix at some point. Strengths in the top left. Weaknesses beside them. Opportunities and threats below. You end up with a tidy grid, a room full of sticky notes, and a slide that summarizes where things stand. And then the meeting ends, the matrix gets filed, and the insights are quietly forgotten.
13 August 2026

Why AI Still Can’t Write Your Requirements

I asked AI a simple question about requirements and got back a page of prose instead of an answer. That moment made me test a hope a lot of us are quietly holding: that AI can write our requirements for us. Here is what I found, and why the thinking part still has to be yours.