ba-skills

Master assumption validation - identify hidden assumptions, test whether they're true, find contradictions and risks. Use for validating risky assumptions before committing resources.

Master business domain knowledge - understand business models, unit economics, revenue mechanisms, metrics, profitability, financial analysis. Use for evaluating business cases, prioritizing features by business value, and understanding financial impact.

Master BA communication - write clearly and persuasively, present effectively to different audiences, document decisions, facilitate discussions, influence without authority. Use for stakeholder updates, requirement documentation, and decision communication.

Master compliance and risk domain - understand regulatory requirements, data privacy, security risks, legal constraints, and business continuity. Use for identifying compliance needs, assessing risks, and building risk mitigation plans.

Develop logical analysis skills - break down complex problems, identify root causes, test assumptions, evaluate evidence quality, build sound arguments. Use for problem analysis, decision-making, and validating business logic.

Master data-driven analysis - collect relevant data, analyze patterns, visualize findings, interpret results, support decisions with evidence. Use for validating assumptions, prioritizing features, and measuring success.

Master document synthesis - summarize information clearly, extract key insights, create executive summaries, distill complex documents. Use for condensing information for different audiences and creating actionable summaries.

Master insight extraction - dig deep into data to find root causes, hidden opportunities, and non-obvious implications. Use for deeper analysis that leads to breakthrough understanding.

Master market domain knowledge - understand competitive landscape, market trends, positioning, customer segments, go-to-market strategy, and market evolution. Use for evaluating market opportunity, competitive strategy, and positioning decisions.

Master pattern recognition - identify recurring themes, outliers, trends, inconsistencies across documents and data. Use for extracting meaningful patterns from interviews, feedback, and data sets.

Master stakeholder engagement - identify decision-makers, manage expectations, navigate conflicts, build coalitions, communicate effectively with different audiences. Use for engaging sponsors, managing competing interests, and building stakeholder buy-in.

Master technical domain knowledge - understand architecture, scalability, technical constraints, trade-offs, and implications. Use for feasibility assessment, design discussions, and communicating with engineering teams.

Master user psychology domain - understand decision-making, cognitive biases, behavioral patterns, motivation, adoption barriers. Use for designing features users will love, reducing friction, and predicting user behavior.