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Know What Your Business Rules Are About: Decision Rules vs. Behavioral Rules Know What Your Business Rules Are About: Decision Rules vs. Behavioral Rules
Unlike decision rules, behavioral rules do not pertain directly to determining the best or most appropriate answer (outcome) among alternatives... Three simple but typical examples in article illustrate. Avoid force-fitting a decision-oriented approach to every business rule problem. It simply doesn’t work! Read More...

Developing Effective Agile Requirements Relies on Both User Stories and Use Cases Developing Effective Agile Requirements Relies on Both User Stori...
As the Agile movement continues to gain momentum and managing projects using Agile methods becomes more and more prolific, project prof... Read more...
Projects and the taxi ride Projects and the taxi ride
Business analysts need to understand their role on a project. Please note I use the word 'role' and not 'job' or 'the work we do'. As b... Read more...

New Opportunities for Business Analysts: Decision Modeling and Normalization New Opportunities for Business Analysts: Decision Modeling and No...
As a business analyst you are the all-important glue between the business and technology. Your skills range from various kinds of model... Read more...
Connect the Dots with Requirements Traceability, Part 3 - The Process Connect the Dots with Requirements Traceability, Part 3 - The Pro...
The CEO of a major corporation who was present when I described requirements traceability at a seminar asked, “Why wouldn’t you create ... Read more...

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Three Audacious Goals for Business Analysts in 2013
As we start a new year many of us will take the time to reflect on our accomplishments from 2012 and plan our goals for 2013. We can set small or larg... Read More...

Hey IIBA, What’s Up With That?
Recently, I was asked by the IIBA to present a talk at one of their chapter meetings. I am reprinting here my response to that invitation in the hope ... Read More...

BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram
Continuing the ABC series for Business Analysts, Howard Podeswa created the next installment titled "BA ABCs: “C” is for Class Diagram" as an article ... Read More...


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Do you want stakeholders to trust you?
Do you want to be an effective BA?   The first step is to make the key stakeholders trust you. As I wrote in my previous post it is t... Read More...

Lessons from a Spelling Bee
I remember as a 3rd grade student winning my school’s local Spelling Bee competition and going to compete in the county wide Spelling Bee. Part of the... Read More...

Applying Agile principles to requirement analysis
Background The Agile methodology originated within the software development industry. Since its inception in 2001 – Agile has expanded beyond an init... Read More...

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