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» Difference between a Brainstorm and Focus Group

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If you work in new product development or have participated in maintenance projects, then most likely you have used either the focus group or the brainstorming technique. The brainstorming technique is used to produce ideas and increase creativity. For example, after you’ve defined your problem and are looking for the different solution options, yo...

Posted by: Linda Erzah, CBAP

» Requirements Gathering

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Requirements gathering is an essential part of any project and project management. Understanding fully what a project will deliver is critical to its success. This may sound like common sense, but surprisingly it's an area that is often given far too little attention. Many projects start with the barest headline list of requirements, only to find ...

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» Kano Analysis as a requirements prioritization model

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This presentation deck describes the fundamentals of Kano Analysis and how it can be used to prioritize requirements. Kano Analysis and Software Requrements View more presentations from Craig Brown

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Which seat is mine?

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I've been working with a company now for a little over a year as a contract business analyst and I think it's fair to say that they are still evolving their understanding over how to effectively utilise BA's like myself. So far, i've been fairly successful in deploying methodologies, BA tools and techniques, but i...

Posted by: KMUK

» Business rules are a backward step

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I have been delivering projects successfully since the early 80s. Back then, we didn't have business rules, we had formal logical data models, entity life histories, data constraints, and data flow diagrams. In general, all the necessary business constraints got captured properly and implemented. Some of these deliveries actually passed acceptance ...

Posted by: Dr David Fletcher

» Separating Requirements Elicitation from Business Analysis

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What do you need the most when eliciting Requirements? Face-time with Subject Matter Experts and their Managers. As a Business Analyst employed in a typical organization, what is the thing you get the least of? Face-time with Subject Matter Experts and their Managers. Who will Subject Matter Experts and Managers make time to see? Outside Cons...

Posted by: David Wright

» Complexity: The Execution Challenge You Don't See

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When you think of the word 'complex', do you ever think about what it has to do with project execution? Ask a management consulting firm to define 'complex' and you'll get a response like "well, it's a concept that can affect your life, your family, your team and your organization." That's because consultants understand that complexity lies in ever...

Posted by: James D. Murphy

» Robustness Diagrams and Robustness Analysis

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Dear All BA's, I am conducting a simple informal survery about the utilization of robustness diagrams and robustness analysis by BA's. The questions will take less than one minute of your time to answer and your input will greatly my research work that I am conducting towards improving the current practices in BA. Do you use robusntess diagrams a...

Posted by: Dr. Mohamed El-Attar

» The Role of the Requirements Analyst in Driving Specialized Development Teams to Success

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I am working on a project where Development teams are divided into specialized areas called Centers of Competence. For example, one team works on Customer data, another team on Product data and validation, another works with the Shopping Cart, another with Checkout and so on. Requirements are gathered within each of these Centers of Competence and ...

Posted by: Seilevel

» Satisfy Requirements with Continuous End User Involvement

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Perhaps the most important facet of agile software development is its innate ability to satisfy user requirements better, more accurately, more consistently, than what is considered ‘traditional’ software development. Where ‘traditional’ software development begs the user for all necessary information upfront and then reluctantly for feedback at th...

Posted by: Mendix.com

» Asking the Right questions-Process Discovery

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If you are an internal Business Analyst or consultant asking the right questions in a Discovery project is a critical skill. While it seems that a 10 or 20 year veteran seemingly gets those answers by some magical power, it’s really not that complicated. The experienced Business Analyst or Project Manager has been there many times before and knows ...

Posted by: Mike Cunningham

» Asking the Right questions-Process Discovery

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Posted by: Mike Cunningham

» Five New Year’s Resolutions for Requirements

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It’s that time of year, where our thoughts turn to the holidays…the holiday parties, the shopping, the lights, visiting with family! For many organizations, the end of the year tends to be quiet on the IT front, for no organization wants to risk introducing problems into their production environment at year end. So as I look back at th...

Posted by: Seilevel

» Analysis Tools for Non-UI Requirements Gathering

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Hi Everyone, In my current company X I am Leading the analysis efforts around retiring legacy application with nemerous external dependancies and as a part of the analysis process my team and I are performing a great deal of reverse engineering. New applications which will be built as a result of retirement this le...

Posted by: Ella

» Coaching Football and Agile Applications: It’s Game Time

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Many business analysts and heads of industry find themselves in compromising situations. Their team is down and they can’t seem to move the business properly towards the goal. It seems your competitor across the field is always one step ahead, providing results and fan [customer] satisfaction. But how did they do it and why can’t you come back? Ga...

Posted by: Mendix.com

» Is Traceability Possible Without a Requirements Tool?

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I have spent the last year and a half working on an enterprise software solution development effort where we do not use a Requirements Management tool like Caliber or Visual Studio TFS. Our requirements are created in Word using standardized templates and distributed to Development and Test teams for consumption. Test cases are written in Excel an...

Posted by: Seilevel

» Square pegs, round holes - why non-funcs are really not stories

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I've been blogging lately about a couple of topics pertaining to 'agile' methods. Along those lines, I wanted to consider one suggested practice that I think is worth reflecting on, that is; the treatment of NFRs (non-functional requirements) as stories. Let's draw back for a moment. Regardless of process approach, be it traditional or agile, po...

Posted by: FergalMcGovern

» BA Careers - Is industry experience more important than Analytical skill?

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Business Analysts often delve into business requirements, gathering, understanding and documenting business processes and functions. An analytical mind and detailed information gathering are considered to be essential; one wonders though, if industry experience is a must for good business analysis skills. After all, if you knew well the ins...

Posted by: HSantanam

» Challenges with User Stories

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A Promise to have a Conversation I’ve been writing user stories for a couple of years now, and the best way I’ve heard how to describe them is that they are a promise to have a conversation. Enough information should be written down to give the reader an idea of what the gist of the story is (and to be able to roughly estimate a story point ...

Posted by: Seilevel

» Capacity review - assets planning

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Capacity review Why should Business Analysts be concerned about IT Asset Capacity planning / review - because business analysts, in my opinion, are all about optimizing business processes - in many cases, closely linked to IT. With that said, here is some food for thought: IT Asset management - One of the core principles for Infor...

Posted by: HSantanam

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