Dangers and Landmines to Beware in Business Analysis
Introduction
The journey of business analysis in product development projects or change management programmes is laden with dangers and landmines. Avoid and prevent these at the early stages for achieving success.
Beware of the following potential danger areas in business analysis:
- Not covering all the bases
- Missing the critical step
- Jumping into the solution space
- Getting the focus wrong
- Analysis paralysis
- Ignoring people element
- Managing without measuring
- Driven by the wrong factors
The dangers lurking in the business analysis can occur at personal as well professional levels. The causes for these could be simple oversight, whereas the impact from them could be significant, deep and long-lasting.
It is vital for the success of the initiative/programme to understand what could go wrong with the business analysis activities and make an effort to prevent these.
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