Ilze Koning is a consultant at Equal Experts, specialising in business analysis and solution architecture.https://ilzekoning.com/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/being-a-generalist/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/being-a-generalist/Why breadth is its own kind of expertise, and why the industry's obsession with specialisation misses it.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/stakeholder-mapping/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/stakeholder-mapping/A stakeholder mapping tool inspired by the host attribute matrix in Westworld.Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/requirements-similarity-analyzer/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/requirements-similarity-analyzer/Applying data, calculations and actions to build a tool that finds similar requirements across documents.Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/keeping-your-eyes-on-the-prize/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/keeping-your-eyes-on-the-prize/Why business analysts should keep returning to ROI throughout a project, with a prototype calculator to help.Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/ears-and-functional-thinking/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/ears-and-functional-thinking/How the Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax lines up with functional thinking to make requirements clear and testable.Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/scaling-organisations/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/scaling-organisations/Patterns in how organisations scale and specialise, read through evolutionary biology and systems theory.Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/data-warehousing/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/data-warehousing/What it took to turn a logistics company's fragmented data landscape into an integrated analytics platform.Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/grokking-it/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/grokking-it/Extending Robustness Diagrams with ideas from Grokking Simplicity to separate actions, calculations and data.Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/welcome/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/welcome/From doodles, to code, to product: an introduction to this notebook of posts on code and craft.Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://ilzekoning.com/writing/my-first-application/https://ilzekoning.com/writing/my-first-application/A phone directory for the ZX Spectrum 48k, and an early lesson that technically correct is not the same as usable.Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT