http://barocks.com Maria Murphy talks about Business Analysis, User Centred Design in Requirements Development and Business Process Improvement Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:52:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   As a BA community we need to come together and start promoting our frameworks, our methodologies, our approaches in order to shape the future of the profession rather than worrying about defining our role. We should define the scope of what is business analysis as ... http://barocks.com/2008/02/14/im-a-ba-dont-put-me-in-a-box/ I recently read an article in BRW by Neil Shoebridge about how the Internet, mobile phones and MP3 players have changed the business of selling and the creation of marketing messages and that the Internet and other new media had made the medium more important than the message. This means ... http://barocks.com/2008/01/23/the-medium-or-the-message-and-the-changing-role-of-the-user/ My friend Matt recently blogged about Luis Suarez and that he has written a list of eight things you didn’t know about him. It’s a meme, where the rules seem to be pretty straight forward: Link to your tagger and post these rules List EIGHT random facts about yourself Tag EIGHT people at the end ... http://barocks.com/2007/12/21/8-things-you-didnt-know-about-me/ On the 4th of Dec Canberra hosted the Australian Business Analysis Association (ABAA) User Group Meeting and Christmas Drinks. It was an excellent opportunity for those interested in business and system analysis to get together and discuss the development of the profession. Matthew Hodgson from SMS Management and Technology presented ... http://barocks.com/2007/12/09/iterative-prototypying-and-user-centred-design/ My friend Matt is presenting at the next Business Analysis user group meeting for the ABAA. He is talking about Iterative Prototyping and user centred Design. I have seen Matt present and blog on this topic so it promises to be a great presentation. Hope you can join us. I ... http://barocks.com/2007/11/20/iterative-prototyping-and-user-centred-design/ Today I presented to the WIC hot breakfast series on Web 2.0 and the impact of technology on social computing. I talked about how life is really fast paced, we are time poor and don't have time to catch up with our friends and family as it is, let alone ... http://barocks.com/2007/11/08/web-20-and-the-impact-of-technology-on-social-computing/ Just a quick note to let you know that I am presenting at the next WIC hot breakfast series of meetings this week. I am talking about the Impact of Web 2.0 Technology and Social Computing. More information on the event can be found at WIC. http://barocks.com/2007/11/05/presenting-at-wic/ There is still a lot of debate in BA circles around what our role is and what is offered by the various organisation representing and supporting BAs. Is the role all about requirements analysis? Are we just interested in IT and systems analysis or are our practitioners focused on the ... http://barocks.com/2007/10/22/struggling-to-define-business-analysis-and-the-ba-role/ Well I've been a bit quite of late as I have been on some much needed rest and relaxation so I have sadly neglected my blog. I have had a number of comments with suggested tools to consider and comments wanting to know which requirements management tool we choose. After a ... http://barocks.com/2007/10/16/requiements-management-post-script/ 2007 - 2008 WIC HOT Breakfast Series It is back again, the new WIC HOT Breakfast Series begins this week! This year’s series follows on from the theme of the WIC in Winter debate, with each speaker looking at the impact of technology on areas ranging from boarder ... http://barocks.com/2007/09/13/positive-impact-of-technology/