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Monthly Archives: April 2022
Data Mining
Data mining is the processing of large quantities of data to glean useful insights and support decision-making. Descriptive techniques like generating graphical depictions or applying other methods allow users to identify patterns, trends, or clusters. Diagnostic techniques like decision trees … Continue reading
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State Modeling
What do we mean by state? We commonly think of the states of matter as solid, liquid, and gaseous, and we know that these are dependent on temperature. For water at — atmospheric pressure — we refer to these states … Continue reading
Reviews
Reviews are about examining some output or artifact for quality and agreement. I primarily think of this process in terms of my framework, as shown in the figure below, but many contexts are valid. In my framework, review means building … Continue reading
Business Model Canvas
Like the balanced scorecard technique I described yesterday, I view the business model canvas technique as a way to get analysts to look at organizations in a different way. It is used fairly commonly (though I had never seen nor … Continue reading
Balanced Scorecard
I have never explicitly used this technique, but I have certainly examined problems, systems, and opportunities from all the perspectives contained within it. This is true of many techniques described in the BABOK. I often note that every formalized technique … Continue reading
Concept Modeling
A concept model, or conceptual model, is an abstract representation of an organization, process, system, or product. It relates the nouns and verbs and other categorizations within and between elements. It can take any arbitrary form, in contrast with the … Continue reading
Extended Engagement Life Cycle
When creating a new project, engagement, or product from scratch, we should think in terms of its full life cycle. For this reason I have drawn the diagram of my business analysis engagement framework with two extra cycles. One shows … Continue reading
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Survey or Questionnaire
Surveys and questionnaires are excellent tools for gathering data, opinions, needs, and observations from large groups of respondents in a relatively short time. They come in many forms, with individual questions being either open-ended, where respondents can provide any type … Continue reading
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