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January 2008
» Best Practice with Structured Requirements
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| Analysts report poor requirements management accounts for as much as 71 percent of software project failures. The main cause is the gap between (a) what the business team wants and how it communicates this, and (b) what IT understands and delivers.
No matter how good a project development environment is, if the requirements captured in the first p... |
» Craftsmanship: Its Cultural and Managerial Implications
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| "Craftsmanship = (Knowledge + Experience + Attitude) X Success"
- Bryce's Law
The purpose of this essay is to review the state of craftsmanship in the 21st century, determine if it still has merit in today's corporate culture, and if so, devise recommendations for perpetuating it.
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Before we go further, let's examine what exactly we mean... |
» The Business Analysis Hysteria
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| In Toronto, Canada - January 3, 2005: The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) made available components of the world's first Body of Knowledge for Business Analysis. Since then a simple Google search for "business analyst" reveals that these professionals are in high demand. There are openings at banks, telecoms, retailers, insuranc... |
» Guiding Hands for Business Analysts
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| Mentoring ensures newly trained business analysts are immediately productive.
What can project leaders and managers offer employees hoping to carve out careers as business analysts? What path do business analysts follow? Do they simply attend training courses, shuffling through the process from one end to the other, emerging on the far side as qua... |
» Clear Path for Business Analysts
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| Not all business analysts are born equal, but they can reach a common baseline of excellence through diligence.
The recent emergence of a career path due to formalisation of the industry has highlighted the fact that some people are predisposed to be good business analysts, while others need to work a little harder at it.
Not only should prospect... |
» 10 signs you aren't cut out to be a systems analyst
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| The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that job opportunities for systems analysts will increase at an above-average pace through 2014, as organizations continue to build and implement increasingly complex technologies.
If you've been wondering whether you'd be happy in the role of systems analyst, take a look at the following list. If you see... |
» Requirements Management in an Agile World - Does it Make Sense?
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| The main benefit of today’s Agile development methodologies such as Scrum or XP is the promise of delivering more in a shorter period of time and the value derived from having the flexibility to adjust your course mid-way through a development effort. But does this type of approach allow for requirements management? Is RM necessary given the shorte... |
» What Is the Cost of a Requirement Error?
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| Many studies have shown that requirements errors are very costly. By one estimate (in an article by Donald Firesmith for the Software Engineering Institute), requirements errors cost US businesses more than $30 billion per year and often result in failed or abandoned projects and damaged careers. The common wisdom is to find and fix requirements er... |
» In search of the elusive business analyst
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| We've all come to realize that SOA makes a lot of sense.
It also makes a lot of promises, some more genuine than others, but perhaps the most fundamental promise SOA has made is empowerment of the business user. As the story goes, SOA transforms application development from a complex and mysterious black art—the likes of which most understand l... |
» UML basics: The class diagram
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| Structure diagrams in general
Structure diagrams show the static structure of the system being modeled. focusing on the elements of a system, irrespective of time. Static structure is conveyed by showing the types and their instances in the system. Besides showing system types and their instances, structure diagrams also show at least some of the ... |
» Best Careers 2008 - Usability/User Experience Specialist: Executive Summary
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| U.S. News and World Report published their list of Best Careers for 2008 - and Usability/User Experience Professional is one of the listed professions. This is a business analysis related discipline with many business analysts also playing the role of UI designer.
"Usability specialists make sure that products, especially technical on... |
» Best Careers 2008 - Systems Analyst: Executive Summary
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| The US News and World Report published their list of best careers for 2008 and Systems Analyst was one of the professions in the list.
"The Ace Widget Co. has an ancient computer system. It'd like to upgrade to an Oracle-based operation with wireless capabilities, so employees can access the system with their BlackBerrys. The systems ... |
» Establishing and Maturing a Business Analysis Center of Excellence: The Essential Guide
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| Many organizations are scratching their collective heads over how to build and mature a business analysis center of excellence (COE). Where do we start? What does a business analysis COE look like? Who owns it? How does it evolve? This article, an excerpt from ESI’s white paper of the same name, outlines the standard operating practices necessary f... |
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