How to Avoid Common Mistakes Analysts Make Learning obtained from experience in hands-on projects

Presented By

Jody Bullen jody.bullen@yonix.com

CEO

• Persistent mistakes

• How and why people tend to make them

• Maximise chances of success – the most important things to know

• Best practices and critical success factors - a pragmatic check list

Learning Outcomes

#1

Missing the bigger picture

Not finding time to help ourselves

#2

Ignoring Stakeholders

#3

Failing to Ask the Right Questions

#4

Failing to analyse

#5

Not understanding the goals and objectives of stakeholders

#6

Working in silo

#7

Failure to challenge

#8

Using MS Word

#9

Not using a consistent and clear process

#10

“How" rather than "what"

#11

Failure to extract and capture detail

#12

• Make sure you understand the scope and the business context

• Spend more time upfront

• Understand and manage your stakeholders

• Create a single source of project requirements and specifications

• Link artefacts

Maximise chances of success

• Use a software solution created for your role, tasks and functions – Word is poor choice for project teams

• View the requirements exercises as a process rather than a documentation exercise

• Design what businesses need

• Create detailed specifications

• Reuse existing specifications

Maximise chances of success

• Create baselines and provide complete traceability

• Present requirements to stakeholders in a format that is relevant and understandable to their role

• Help stakeholders visualise and understand the requirements

• Continually clarify, review and prioritise requirements with stakeholders

• Understand the technical and business domains

Maximise chances of success

1. People

2. Communication

3. Process

Critical success factors

?Questions

Jody Bullenjody.bullen@yonix.com