Breaking down business complexity with domains and subdomains enables more focused discovery and solution development that better fits business needs.

Business analysts act as diplomats between stakeholders and the development team on a mission to build a solution right the first time.

No-code and low-code development combined with business analysis can quickly deliver valuable point solutions and prototypes.

Demand for automation keeps software unfinished, with developers striving toward perfection in fulfilling requirements.

Software solution development starts with motivated discovery.

Business analysts can use requirements checklists as discovery guidebooks to close requirements gaps, prompt new questions, and even reveal undiscovered needs.

The breadth of a project’s big picture combined with the depth of preliminary research gives business analysts confidence to ask enough questions to fulfill requirements.

Learn how to engage stakeholders, align them to business goals and make them discovery heroes.

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Asking the “five what” questions provides a business value context for asking the “five whys.”

Salesforce rallied architects at Dreamforce 2021, evangelizing new techniques and tools to design solutions that will meet escalating demands for more sophisticated information.

Dreamforce 2021’s “True to the Core” provided business analysis wisdom, while the admin and architect keynotes acknowledged the value of the business analyst role.

Asking specific questions having minimal friction with respondents yields the best information for making a decision.

A map of all Purposeful Architect articles about process mapping, organized to meet different needs.

Decision trees and tables show all possible outcomes of a decision, ensuring coverage of every scenario.

Creating meaningful process diagrams requires connecting process diagram steps with informative labels.

Limiting the steps on process diagrams by creating new levels makes navigating a process map simpler for stakeholders, engaging them to understand the process better.

Starting a process map at the business program level ensures the map’s diagrams thoroughly cover processes, improving stakeholder communication, and preventing reworks in development.

Curated references to business analysis for those taking on a business analysis role. This edition adds SFBA and Elements Academies.

A portfolio of deliverables showing their results and benefits opens doors for a business analyst to discover a hiring organization’s needs.