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Welcome to Business Analysis unplugged – your go-to resource for tackling IT project challenges with confidence.
This blog is designed for business analysts and IT professionals looking for:
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At Business Analysis unplugged, we focus on simplifying IT processes, breaking down common problems, and helping you deliver impactful solutions.
Check Out The Latest Posts
- The Business Owner Is Never Available and the Project Is Paying for It
Your project keeps stalling because every decision, clarification, and sign-off waits on one business owner who is rarely free. The fix is not chasing harder. It is reducing the dependency: triage what genuinely needs them, route the rest through proxies and documented defaults, and make the cost of waiting visible so the sponsor owns it as a project risk. - Process Mapping for BAs: How to Use It Without Getting Lost in the Detail
Process maps have a habit of ballooning until nobody reads them, or pulling you so deep into one branch you lose the whole process. The fix is to map at a deliberate level of detail: decide the one question the map must answer, map the happy path first, add only the exceptions that matter, and stop there. A practical guide for BAs who want maps that stay useful. - Your Project Keeps Reopening Decisions That Were Already Signed Off
Decisions get signed off, then reopened weeks later after delivery has already built on them. The cause is rarely stakeholders changing their mind. It is usually sign-off collected on a document rather than a decision, from people without real authority, with the trade-off invisible and nothing recorded. Here is how to diagnose it and what to do before the next approval. - Nobody Knows What Done Looks Like on Your Project
When done means different things to the BA, the developer, the tester, and the business stakeholder, UAT surprises and release arguments are the predictable result. This Problem Clinic helps you make completion explicit at the story, feature, and release level. Before the gaps surface under pressure.
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