Sam Cordes If you are trying to get into business analysis or figure out what the role actually demands day to day, this guide cuts straight to what matters. I cover the core responsibilities, the skills that separate effective BAs from struggling ones, and the tools you will use on real projects. Everything here is grounded in practice, not theory.
If you are benchmarking your salary, negotiating an offer, or deciding where to take your career next, you need real numbers by country and experience level. This article breaks down how much a business analyst earns across 11 countries, including what drives pay up or down within each market. Use it to position yourself, not just to browse.
If you want to become a business analyst, the fastest route is not a certification or a course. It is getting close to real BA work as quickly as possible and building a portfolio of things you have actually done. This is the 90-day plan I would give myself if I were starting from scratch today.
If you want to become a business analyst, the path is more accessible than most people assume, but it requires deliberate choices rather than simply accumulating credentials. This guide walks you through the practical steps, from building core skills to landing your first role, drawn from real BA practice across multiple industries. Whether you are transitioning from another career or starting out, the advice here is grounded in what actually works.
If you want to understand what a business analyst actually does on a live project, job descriptions will not get you there. This is an honest account of the daily work drawn from 25 years of BA practice across government, utilities, health, and enterprise programmes. It covers what happens before the first stakeholder meeting, inside it, and in all the hours between.
If you are figuring out what a business analyst does — whether you are considering the role, just starting out, or working alongside one — this guide cuts straight to the practical reality. It covers daily responsibilities, core skills, the tools I actually use, and where the role can take you. No theory, no fluff: just what the work really looks like.
Non functional requirements are the qualities a system must demonstrate to be considered fit for purpose, not just functional. Get them wrong and you can build something that works on paper but fails in production, fails an audit, or collapses under real-world load. This article walks you through the categories you need to cover, how to elicit them properly, and where the friction usually appears.
Requirements analysis looks different depending on the sector you are working in, the stakeholders you are dealing with, and the constraints the project is operating under. This article walks through concrete requirements analysis examples from five industries, including the friction points that made each one genuinely difficult. If you have a requirements task in front of you right now, these examples will help you move forward.
Getting business requirements right is the single most important thing you can do at the start of any project. This article walks you through what business requirements are, how to elicit them, and how to document them in formats that actually hold up under pressure. If you have a project in front of you right now, start here.
Business requirements analysis is where projects are won or lost, and most of the damage happens quietly, through assumptions left unchecked, documentation nobody reads, and stakeholders who drift out of the conversation. This article walks through five specific mistakes I have seen derail otherwise well-planned projects, with a real worked example drawn from a health sector engagement where two of these failures collided at once. Read it before your next requirements session, not after the rework begins.
A poorly written software requirements specification does not just slow a project down, it actively sets it up to fail. These three mistakes appear repeatedly across projects of every size and methodology, and all three are avoidable. Here is how to catch them before they cost you.