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» FEATURED: What You Need to Know About Business Rules
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What You Need to Know About Business Rules Business rules should be externalized from processes and established as a separate resource. Rule Independence permits direct management of the business rules, so they can evolve at their own natural pace rather than that of the software release cycle. Other benefits include better process models, and much closer tie-in to the business side (a.k.a....

» FEATURED: Guerrilla Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
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Guerrilla Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) It is unfortunate, but not surprising, that the elegant and relatively simple view of SOA has become bloated with a bewildering array of methodologies and products, leading to confusion and bafflement by many of its proponents and potential converts.

» Business Agility and the New Role of the Business Analyst
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Business Agility and the New Role of the Business Analyst In a series of conversations, Kevin Brennan and I discussed the new role of the business analyst and what the future holds for people who build careers in this field. To structure our conversation, we articulated a central idea or axiom and then defined four key propositions that flow from that axiom. Presented below are that axiom and our thoughts...

» The Creative Business Analyst - Part 3, Making Better Decisions
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The Creative Business Analyst - Part 3, Making Better Decisions In this final paper of the series we look at decision making techniques – how to select the best idea from the many we’ve come up with – and how to justify our recommendation to our client, manager and peers.  

» FEATURED: A View to Agile Requirements
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A View to Agile Requirements In agile projects, you deliver the product in a series of successive and sensibly staged releases. Each release represents the culmination of a series of requirements decisions... One of your biggest challenges is ongoing-how to group and sequence requirements for optimal delivery. Let's take a look at adapting requirements workshops to meet that c...

» FEATURED: What Analysts Need to Know about Decisioning and Business Rules: Interview with Ronald G. Ross
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What Analysts Need to Know about Decisioning and Business Rules: Interview with Ronald G. Ross Whether you’ve never heard of business rules or you are a business rules guru, you need to understand that business rules need to be a first-class citizen of the requirements world. In this interview, Ronald G. Ross, recognized as the “father of business rules,” shares his wisdom on business rules and what every business analyst needs to know ...

» FEATURED: Leading from the Side
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Leading from the Side I have been in the business analysis profession for many years and the one thing I have constantly had to challenge myself on is leading without really leading, or what I call leading from the side. As a business analyst, many times we are not in a position of authority yet we have to have significant leadership skills to be successful.
  

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