Is Remote Usability Testing A Good Idea?
There are a lot of benefits of being in the same room with someone when you are trying to gather information and learn more about them. Most people can probably agree that if your goal is to get to...
View ArticleUX Journal: Remote Usability Testing, Recruiting and Automated Tests
This week we continued to focus on usability testing, specifically, remote usability testing. Basically this means being able to test with anybody who can get access to a computer basically anywhere...
View ArticleUX Journal: My Feelings on Unmoderated User Testing
Now that I have had the opportunity to create and run an unmoderated user test, I must say that I very much love the concept. In my line of work, its unlikely that I'll be given the time to do quality...
View ArticleWhen in Doubt, Draw it Out – Tales of Being an Epic Business Analyst
I love to solve puzzles, and I love to treat every little complication, obstacle, and issue as a new puzzle to be solved. For me its kind of like being a detective. When things are unclear and nobody...
View ArticleUX Journal: Mobile Usability Testing Assignment
This is a pretty exciting topic this week, well at least for me, because its one that I knew very little about before now. Most of my readings and research have always been around desktop websites and...
View ArticleUX Mobile Usability Testing Part 2
This week we were asked to design a usability study at a fictional company. This time around it was for mobile usability study meaning we had to see how users were using smartphones and tablets. As you...
View ArticleUX Journal: Understanding Eye Tracking Results Part 1
This week we are digging a little deeper into usability testing with eye tracking. Eye tracking is basically revolutionizing how we understand the interaction people have with basically everything. A...
View ArticleTop 5 Features for Managing Business Requirements on SharePoint. Simple and...
SharePoint is a very common big corporation content management tools and in the right hands it can be quite powerful. I want to point out that SharePoint, is NOT a requirements management tool, but if...
View ArticleThe 3 Most Important Features for Business Analysis & Requirements Management...
For most business analyst, our requirements management software pretty much stops at Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Some of you fancy folks might also use Visio. While, It is entirely possible...
View ArticleUX Journal: Selling Usability and Yourself to Your Company
This week, I had to submit my final selling usability assignment, which was simply an email response to a fake management email. The assignment was to use the newly gained knowledge from Selling...
View ArticleWhich of these 5 Types of Business Analyst Are You?
In my career, of experienced a lot of different style of business analysis, which typically coincides with strengths, experience, and personality. Just like a team of super heros, each has there own...
View ArticleHow Do I Know What Business Analyst Level I Am? Junior, Senior, I, II, III, IV?
As a business analyst, you may come to a point in your career where you starting thinking about moving to another company. You get out to places like Linkedin, Dice.com, CareerJet, Indeed, Glassdoor,...
View ArticleHow To Explain What A Business Analyst Does To Normal People
As business analysts, sometimes its hard to briefly explain what exactly we do. There are a lot of task and activities involved. I've made two videos to help making the job of explaining what a...
View ArticleThings You Can Do Today To Be A Better Business Analyst By Tomorrow
As I have been navigating through my career as a business analyst I've learned that the difference between good and great business analyst are the great business analyst embrace the underlying skills...
View ArticleRequirements Elicitation: How I Ask the Right Questions!
As a business analyst who is trying to get the right solution delivered, it's your jobs to figure out the right questions to ask so you can eventually come up with a solid set of requirements, but how...
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View ArticleCan You Pass the BA Certification (CCBA/CBAP) Exam? Mini Practice Test.
How familiar are you with the standards of business analysis practice? Could you pass the CCBA or CBAP Certification exams? Lets find out. 10 Minutes 5 Questions Fill out this brief survey and...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Software Review: LucidCharts
Using LucidCharts for Business Analysis I had an opportunity try out a LucidCharts team account and evaluate how effective I think it is for a business analyst. Right from the start, I had a good...
View ArticleUX Journal: User Journeys
I really enjoyed working on User Journeys this past week for class. I had much more fun doing the sketches on paper than I did in a tool. It gave me the freedom to draw fun stuff and try things I...
View ArticleReflective Journal Week 2
This week, most of the reading material was geared toward begining the wireframing process for my web application. I'm excited because I get to do a bunch of sketches which is something I'm looking to...
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