Curiosity May Have Killed The Cat, But Not Analysis!

How important is curiosity to your work?

When doing analysis it is vital! Here is a clip from my LinkedIn Learning Course Business Analysis Foundations: Competencies about Curiosity as an analysis competency:

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Red Lights for Curiosity - Things to watch out for and check-in on for your curiosity awareness:

• You have a lot of domain, system, and solution knowledge - Here you may unconsciously be shutting off your curiosity with an assumption that you have the needed knowledge and do not need to ask questions.
• When stakeholders ask for a specific solution, you get straight to work on the details thinking they must know exactly what they want, and with this deadline, I must just get down to the details. Here we need to assume that their ideas of a solution are valid, but not the whole story, and use curiosity to probe more. If there is a better solution to meet their needs, they will want to know about it, but we can't usually find that other solution until we better understand and get curious about why they are asking for it.
• When others ask you for more details to be documented, you feel that they must know more and that what they need must be the right way to go. In this situation, we need to get curious about why they need more detail and find the balance of moving forward, good analysis practices, and meeting their needs. Get curious about different ways to satisfy the details they need, the first way it is asked for is often not the best from all perspectives. It may satisfy their immediate need, but cause delays or issues elsewhere.

Last month in my LinkedIn {AUDIO} chat we discussed curiosity and had a very interesting deep dive in the conversation about curiosity and vulnerability; it takes courage to be curious, and it can be vulnerable to ask tough questions.

I encourage you to reflect on your thoughts about vulnerability and curiosity, talk with work colleagues and your leaders about it, find ways to build more safety into your teams to encourage more curiosity.

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• Sept 15th - BAs - Documenters or Strategists?
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• Oct 27th - Setting up a Mentoring Program Internally For BAs
• Nov 10th - Building Leadership & Influence Skills in BAs
• Dec 1st - Becoming More Agile as a BA Practice & Team
• Dec 15th - Getting New BAs Productive and Trained!

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