Author: darkanalyst
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Storytelling with Data: A Vital Skill for Modern Business Analysts
Are you delivering important presentations to the BORED room instead of the board room? Do you wish you could captivate your audience with enthusiasm, engaging content, and perhaps even a little pizzazz? We sat down with the figurative, but sometimes literal presentation wizard Hans Eckman to hear his thoughts on delivering successful presentations. Delivering quality
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Communication of the Future
In our conversation with Jenn Bedell on Analysts After Dark, we talked about effective communication as Business Analysts. Effective communication is an essential tool in the analyst’s toolbelt. Without it, we become order-takers and stenographers missing the primary goal of our position, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction by helping them deliver functional software. An experienced analyst can…
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Introducing a new role – Innovation Analyst
Introducing Olivia, the Innovation Analyst with a superhero alter ego – “Captain Curiosity.” Equipped with a passion for change, a seamlessly endless stream of ideas, and an analytical mindset, she is dedicated to pushing her organization’s competitive advantages to their limits. Working across the organization she is responsible for keeping informed of emerging technologies and…
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Stress Management for Business Analysts: Because Crying in the Bathroom Raises Too Many Questions
It often feels like an analyst’s role is never finished. Between managing the managers, sitting in more meetings than your guidance counselor ever told you was possible, and seemingly performing every role in the software development lifecycle the business analyst’s position can get quite stressful. Here are some helpful tips to lower your stress-ball budget.
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5 FUN-ctional Ideas to Increase Engagement as Business Analysts
Play at work increases creativity, connectedness and improves learning comprehension. If that is all true, why don’t we have more fun at work? We talked with Jamie Champagne in our most recent episode of Analysts After Dark to find out how business analysts could use fun to be more impactful in the office. Before we…
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The Six Main Causes of Burnout and What BAs Can Do About It
We sat down on Analysts After Dark with Coach Vic Nichols and discussed what causes burnout and how analysts can confront these feelings. We had a great conversation, but still had some burning questions left unanswered.
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Welcome to Analysts After Dark!
What is Analysts After Dark? Analysts After Dark is live-stream show dedicated to the IT professional community. Join us as we deliver immediately applicable tips and tricks, reports on industry trends, and other professional tidbits…unprofessionally. Who is this show for? This show is for anyone that is a Business Analyst, works with Business Analysts, has
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