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New Post 8/12/2008 5:04 PM
User is offline The Leprachaun
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Re: What types of software tools do you use? 
Modified By Adrian M.  on 8/13/2008 2:15:43 PM)

IT'S NOT A BA TOOL - but ProcessPad - its simple, easy, great, cheap, and takes 4 min to learn - its actually for business users and not BA's - its basically designed to let a business user do all the mapping, stats and documentation (wrod, pdf, html, csv) that can then be exported streight into a BA tool

It does use BPMN - BUT IT'S NOT A BA TOOL

SO IT'S NOT A BA TOOL - but there is a 4 min video on www.processmaster.com

 
New Post 8/13/2008 11:49 AM
User is offline vinny
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Re: What types of software tools do you use? 

I was using Visio to do the UML diagrams but now I use UModel to do both UML and BPMN modeling.  I'm pretty new to the UML/BPMN world but UModel seems like it's going to work.  I am experiencing quite a hassle getting things formatted properly (especially BPMN diagrams), but that should get better.

I still use Visio for DFDs.

 
New Post 5/11/2009 7:55 PM
User is offline Tom Miller, CAPM
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Re: What types of software tools do you use? 
Modified By Tom Miller, CAPM  on 5/11/2009 8:58:02 PM)

Adrian:

Is this

  • SOFTWARE: Visual Studio Web Edition, PURPOSE: UI Mockups, Prototypes

The same thing as Visual Studio Express 2008 - Web edition?

 

 
New Post 8/17/2010 8:14 AM
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Re: What types of software tools do you use? 

 larimar wrote

Currently:

  • MS Word for use cases, test plans, test cases
  • MS Excel for requirements, business rules, actors catalogue, issues log, change requests log, traceability matrices
  • MS Visio for sample UI mockups
  • Enterprise Architect for BPMN and UML diagrams (would use for ER diagrams too if I did any)

I have also been looking at more sophisticated tools for managing requirements end-to-end between BAs, developers, testers, and PMs.  Some of the tools we've looked at are:

  • Borland CaliberRM
  • GatherSpace
  • stpSoft Reqsheet
  • Artifact Lighthouse
  • Visual Studio Team Server (on its own... some of the above products integrate with this as well)

I have yet to find what I would consider an all-encompassing solution, so I expect some customization will occur with whatever we decide on (like a VSTS integrated tool).

Great reply.

Keep on sharing.

 
New Post 12/12/2010 2:24 PM
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Re: What types of software tools do you use? 
Modified By Peter  on 12/12/2010 4:27:15 PM)
  • Outlook - Meetings, Emails, tasks
  • OneNote, paper - Requirements Gathering, tasks integrated into Outlook
  • Mindjet Mindmanager - Organising my work and mind on one page. Also to produce various MS Word docs and MS project charts, tasks integrated into Outlook
  • MS Word - finishing up docs created by MM, above
  • MS Project - finishing up docs created by MM, above
  • BizAgi Process Modeler - Process Modelling

Peter


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