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Entries for May 2010


» FEATURED: Are you results-oriented?
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Are you results-oriented? There are many qualities that contribute to great business analysis. You have to be a good communicator and be able to analyze problems. It generally helps to have some solid background in the common techniques of business analysis. For some jobs you need domain knowledge, for others technical expertise. All of these are debated and discussed often...

» FEATURED: What is Enterprise Analysis: does it differ from Enterprise Architecture?
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What is Enterprise Analysis: does it differ from Enterprise Architecture? Enterprise Analysis is a knowledge area which describes the Business analysis activities that take place for an enterprise to identify business opportunities, build a Business Architecture, determine the optimum project investment path for that enterprise and finally, implement new business and technical solutions. The question you may ask: Does th...

» FEATURED: Stakeholder Strategy 101
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Stakeholder Strategy 101 As stakeholders play decisive role towards solution delivery, it would be helpful for business analysts and project managers to have a stakeholder strategy. Stakeholder strategy can help facilitate communication between stakeholders and IT teams. Stakeholder strategy allows project members to consider stakeholder availability and associated risks e...

» FEATURED: How to Manage the Complexities of Urgent Projects
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How to Manage the Complexities of Urgent Projects  Today it seems like every project is urgent due to time-to-market compression and fierce competition in the global marketplace.  In this article we recommend management techniques that can help you and your team manage the complexities that are most likely present in urgent projects, while establishing and maintaining an environment of a...

» An Overview of Requirements Prioritization
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An Overview of Requirements Prioritization Excellent requirements prioritization is essential to any well-run project. It ensures that the project focuses on the most important elements first, and that everyone understands and agrees regarding what the project’s most important elements are. Good prioritization of requirements will also ensure that engineers, programmers and database analyst...

» An Overview of Organizing Requirements
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An Overview of Organizing Requirements The voluminous amounts of information that an analyst collects during the discovery and elicitation phases warrant a good deal of planning and organization in order to make business or user requirements into a usable, cohesive whole. As with any other organization process, the key element to requirements’ organization success is thorough preparatio...

» FEATURED: Brûlé’s Rules of Playing Telephone with Requirements
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Brûlé’s Rules of Playing Telephone with Requirements  You remember the game of telephone, right? The test of communication skills where one person whispers a message to his neighbor, and that message is translated multiple times from person to person until eventually, the last contestant repeats her interpreted message aloud. The goal is for the final person in the chain to correctly hear the or...

» FEATURED: Requirements and the Beast of Complexity
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Requirements and the Beast of Complexity This article promotes a new approach to requirements management that reduces project complexity and improves communication between business and IT. This new approach can be used on its own, or as a supplement or precursor to existing approaches. Critical features of the approach are: detachment of business requirements from individual projects; and...

» FEATURED: Six Simple Steps for Accelerating and Perfecting Requirements: A Framework, a New Model, and Visualization
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Six Simple Steps for Accelerating and Perfecting Requirements: A Framework, a New Model, and Visualization We present a requirements framework and methodology that may be different from what you are doing. Its three prominent characteristics are a framework, a new model, and visualization. The framework ensures completeness of all requirements. The new model is the Decision Model, transforming important business thinking into a tangible and manageable b...

» FEATURED: Agility Based on Business Rules
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Agility Based on Business Rules Today’s business systems aren’t agile – even when agile software methods are used to develop them. Companies need business agility, and in most cases we simply aren’t delivering it.  Here’s an example from recent experience. I visited a very large health care organization and had conversations there with a variety of people.
  

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