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Entries for July 2010


» FEATURED: Principles of Agile Architecture
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Principles of Agile Architecture The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly. That's largely because Agile provides quantifiable, "step-change" improvements in the "big three" software developm...

» Measurably Improving Your Requirements
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Measurably Improving Your Requirements Requirements continue to be a major problem area for most organizations. According to industry reports, the leading causes of quality, cost, and schedule problems are lack of understanding of the customer’s needs, incomplete requirement specifications, and managing changing requirements. In fact, requirements are so important that one of the defini...

» The Roles and Skill Sets of Systems vs Business Analysts
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The Roles and Skill Sets of Systems vs Business Analysts The role of business analysts and systems analysts appears to be very closely related, and there is no agreement on the definitions of the roles or the required skill set to become one of the said analysts. Though the number of these positions is increasing, the understanding of what the business and systems analysts are remains unclear and differs...

» FEATURED: Video: What is a Senior Business Analyst?
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Video: What is a Senior Business Analyst? I get this question and variations of it all the time! What is a senior business analyst? What skills do I need to develop to become one? What are the most valued business analyst competencies? This is a tough question. And although finding the answer can be difficult, it’s also a tough question because it has multiple answers. Business analysis, ...

» FEATURED: An Overview of Requirements Elicitation
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An Overview of Requirements Elicitation A thorough discovery of business requirements is almost never readily available at an analyst’s fingertips—rarely can requirements be quickly looked up as one would gather information for a term paper or study for a test. Much of business or technical requirements is not documented anywhere—it resides in the minds of stakeholders, in feedback that ...

» FEATURED: Why Decision Tables are not enough: From Decision Tables to Decision Models
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Why Decision Tables are not enough: From Decision Tables to Decision Models Decision tables have long been a successful technique for representing structured logic. Being visual, they circumvent the need for unnatural formal language or grammar. We use them not only to communicate that logic, but also to automate it. They are especially useful for validating the logic’s completeness and consistency.  Yet, this article...
  

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