Larimar Consulting

Business Analysts are often thrown into projects to help gather requirements around a known, defined problem.  Other times we’re asked to analyze the current state of a certain process, organization, system and look for ways to improve areas that are clearly lacking.  I’ve noticed that when we are brought on a project, the problems described [...]

Every year I like to reflect on my personal growth in the previous 12 months as well as decide what I’d like to focus on improving in the coming year.  As I have been reflecting on my professional development I found myself thinking about the Business Analyst profession in general.  In 2009 I have seen [...]

Over the past few years social media offerings have become an increasingly common way for people to interact with each other in the digital age.  While this revolution began in the consumer space, organizations have begun to leverage social media tools for internal operations.  Blogs, forums, prediction markets and document sharing/collaboration tools are becoming more [...]

One of the challenges a Business Analyst can have is figuring out what the priority of various requirements are.  On a typical project this means trying to classify requirements into what I could consider absolute categories (for example, “mandatory”, “should have”, “nice to have”, etc.).  Sometimes a relative prioritization is also considered (usually within an [...]