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Business analysts are becoming more and more important through the course of digitization, because they serve as a connection between strategy and technology. Which skills does a digital business analyst need?

User stories describe the stakeholders' goals and wishes in agile development. Can the IREB quality criteria for requirements be fulfilled with user stories?

The Gantt chart is an established tool for planning projects. This blog post shows you how you can get the most of it.

Communication trainer Susanne Lorenz reveals how she uses a flipchart to clearly illustrate her presentations. Get inspired.

Establishing baselines is an important task for requirements engineering. Why is that, and how do you establish baselines?

Problems often arise because the specialist departments' knowledge roams over to the IT departments. What does this look like and what does it mean for requirements engineers?

Take different perspectives on complex projects and ensure the project's success by using the Project Health Check.

Is your business model ready for the digital revolution? Prof. Dr. Frank Hälsig shows five common business concepts for the digital economy.

You can best achieve your project success with an optimal project team. Get to know a simple method to get the most out of your project team.

Requirements workshops are a great technique for developing requirements. Where does this resonate in the execution, preparation and follow-up of a workshop?

For feature reviews, both review meetings and mechanical reviews are available. What is recommended when and how does a mechanical review go?

A good problem statement describes the task to be solved as generally as possible and so helps with the search for the right solution.

What are disruptive and evolutionary innovations? How important is the point of view of an innovation and what is the disruptive model?

A conversation with Leonhard Limburg about communication in IT projects, supporting staff in concrete situations and Aikido.

How can employees be managed in a digital working world? What does it come down to on the theme of management in the Working World 4.0?

In in-STEP BLUE you can record information in forms and manage it in lists. Learn how to easily flick through forms here.

Does requirements engineering have to develop further to be able to design new solutions? And how can creativity be embedded into IT analysis?

You can export information from in-STEP BLUE to MS Project. It also works for custom in-STEP BLUE properties.

In in-STEP BLUE you can secure state changes with a password request. This helps avoid mistakes and to increase security.

Do you want to know something, learn to do something, or master something? An evaluation of knowledge acquisition and the importance of feedback by Dr. Andrea Herrmann.

You can exchange information between JIRA and in-STEP BLUE. Read how you can adapt your system for data exchange in just a few minutes.

Businesses need a culture of mistakes, because only through making mistakes can new ideas and concepts be developed. What is Navituition?

A charrette session is a good opportunity to collaboratively develop requirements. What's important with charrette sessions?

With in-STEP BLUE you can calculate the sum of multiple values of a column, like the total effort of individual requirements in the requirements list.

Products have errors because the wrong employees carry out the wrong tasks. It is time for a paradigm shift.

How can importance, urgency, effectiveness and efficiency be integrated into a single formula to adjust a company's priorities?

Innovation is and requires a mindset. Many companies find it hard to adopt this mindset. What can corporations learn from startups?

An interview with Rainer Wendt, president of the IIBA Germany Chapter, about becoming a business analyst and business analysis in the IIBA Germany chapter.

Leverage points combine the knowledge of large groups with the communicative efficiency of small teams. Collective intelligence through leverage points.

With job sharing companies react to the changing demands of employees. Find out how can job sharing can help you become a more attractive employer?