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[BA] 8 Tools & Techniques To Apply To Strategic Analysis & Planning

VMOST : This stands for Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategy, and Tactical. Success in an organization happens with top-down or bottom-up alignment. I was recently reminded of is when working with a client who stated that their tactical is not connected to the strategy. VMOST analysis is meant to help make that connection. SWOT : The standard analysis tool, defined as Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Strengths and weaknesses are internal to the organization, opportunities and threats are external. SWOT requires you to be candid and provide an honest assessment of the state of things. It forces you to create a dialogue with stakeholders to get different viewpoints. Eventually, you focus in on the key issues. PEST : This is a great tool to use in tandem with SWOT. The acronym stands for Political, Economic, Social and Technology. PEST reveals opportunities and threats better than SWOT, the direction of business change, projects that will fail beyond your con...

[BA] Business Analysis Tools

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1)  Modern Requirements Modern Requirements  is recognized as a leading business analysis tool. It provides a collaborative requirements elicitation, definition, and analysis. It helps define requirements textually and visually. It supports diagramming, mockup, Smart Docs, use case, trace analysis, baselining, review management and various elicitation tools 2)  Visure Visure  Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of Requirements Management solutions offering a comprehensive collaborative ALM platform that bridges the gap between business and IT team, fostering collaboration and reducing time-to-market. 3)  Jama Software Jama Software  provides the leading platform for requirements, risk, and test management. With Jama Connect and industry-focused services, teams building complex products, systems, and software improve cycle times, increase quality, reduce rework, and minimize effort proving compliance. 4) JIRA Core: JIRA Core  is a...