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» FEATURED: Working with Various Personalities among Stakeholders
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Working with Various Personalities among Stakeholders Smooth stakeholder participation is integral to the success of any project. Sometimes stakeholders hold information that is essential to thorough requirements discovery, so it is important that they be forthcoming. Other stakeholders must sign off on requirements as being final in order for a project to move forward, so it is important that they be...

» FEATURED: How to Manage the Complexities of Projects That are Too Large, Too Long, and Too Costly
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How to Manage the Complexities of Projects That are Too Large, Too Long, and Too Costly  This article considers the unique complexities of large, long-duration, high-cost projects that pose challenges to project success, and offers both old and new management strategies to handle the complexities... The complexities of large projects require that particular attention be directed to planning the project, developing and delivering ...

» FEATURED: Service Oriented Analysis
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Service Oriented Analysis Although you can do ‘standard’ requirements gathering for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects, there is now an evolving a set of analysis techniques, methods and approaches that purport to be better suited to information gathering and design specification. I will call these generically Service Oriented Analysis.

» The Perfect Five-course Scrum
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The Perfect Five-course Scrum   Through development and beyond we hope not to have show stoppers, anticipate builds and releases on time, expect teams to portray efficiency, want our customers to be happy, and hope that boss coming to work and singing melody. Sounds like a perfect five-course scrum, isn’t it?

» What is a Business Analyst?
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What is a Business Analyst? Today the term Business Analyst is synonymous with a career in the IT industry but the most successful and valuable analysts are those who understand the 'business' rather than those who understand IT. So what exactly is a Business Analyst? What is the Business Analyst’s role? What is the best background for this job? What skill set is required? Wh...

» FEATURED: The Experts’ Take on Business Analysis and Agile
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The Experts’ Take on Business Analysis and Agile If you ask Business Analysts what they think about ‘Agile’, you’re likely to get a mixed bag of answers... With so many different ideas on what Agile is and how Agile impacts the Business Analysis profession, we decided to talk with leading experts in the Agile field and get their opinions on the subject.

» FEATURED: What is a Business Rule?
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What is a Business Rule? For business analysts, understanding decision logic from the perspective of business people is key. For that you need business rules. But when can a rule be considered a business rule, and when not? This article presents five pragmatic tests for knowing when you have identified a true business rule.

» FEATURED: What the CIO Needs: BA’s and Understanding the Stakeholder
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What the CIO Needs: BA’s and Understanding the Stakeholder Business Analysts are required to contribute to a project in a number of ways: primarily by identifying the needs of the target community; building the Communications Plan; defining use case models; and Business Requirements document. In order to do their job effectively a large element of a BA’s time must be spent understanding and managing stakeh...
  

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