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Articles from
August 2007
» What is a Business Analyst?
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| 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: How to Document Information System Requirements
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| In the discipline of business analysis, the "hard skill" is writing (or modeling) and documenting the system or software requirements so that they are recorded, communicated and approved. Often, however, this important skill is also the one that is understood the least.
Various formats or deliverables are used to document system and software requ... |
» Introduction to BPMN
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| This paper is intended to provide a high-level overview and introduction to the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The context and general uses for BPMN will be provided as a supplement to the technical details defined the BPMN 1.0 Specification, which has been recently completed and released to the public. The basics of the BPMN notation w... |
» Validated requirements from business use cases and the Rational Unified Process
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| Effective communication among application development project stakeholders is often challenging, especially when the team is geographically distributed or time constrained. IBM® Rational® software helps organizations automate, integrate, and govern the core business process of software and systems delivery via the IBM Rational Software Delivery Pla... |
» Tips for Business Analysts: Career Paths for Business Analysts
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| People come to the job of Business Analyst in many different ways. Some people graduate from college and immediately start to work as a junior Analyst for a major corporation. Often a Business Analyst has some years of work experience in some related field before starting to work as an analyst.
You may choose to work for a company in the role of B... |
» Prioritization Puzzles: Practices for Prioritizing Your Product Requirements
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| Not all requirements are created equal, so to make smart choices about which product requirements you should explore and implement—or whether you should delve into them at all—you need to prioritize them. Many teams do not prioritize properly and waste time specifying requirements that are never delivered. Why spend time and energy on r... |
» Business Analysis Center of Excellence
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| The Cornerstone of Business Transformation.
The fiercely competitive twenty-first century business environment poses challenges at every turn. Both public and for-profit organizations must be flexible and adaptable to remain competitive. It is through successful projects that organizations manage change, deliver new business solutions, and ultimat... |
» Eight Things Your Business Analysts Need to Know
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| Each year, organizations across the globe face astronomical project failure rates, often wasting millions of dollars per failed project. This paper examines the roots of project failure and centers in on the elusive, often undefined role of the business analyst. In response to research showing that many organizations have not set concrete requireme... |
» Memoir of the CBAP Exam
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| In this article from ESI Horizons newsletter, Chip Schwartz discusses his experiences with sitting for the first Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) exam in November 2006.
Author: Chip Schwartz |
» Tips for Business Analysts: What are RUP, EUP, UP, OpenUP, EssUp?
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| RUP describes a process for developing software systems. It seems there are so many variations of RUP, how do you know which is best for you and your organization, if any? What do all those acronyms mean? Where are these things coming from?
Author: Geri Schneider Winters |
» "Analysis and Design" Considered Harmful
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| This article describes a common pitfall of thinking of analysis and design together as a single process, and highlights the need to treat analysis and design as two separate processes. The author, points out that much of the UML standard, as it is explained today, is described in terms of design artifacts rather than analysis artifacts.
Author: Co... |
» Implicit Data Dictionaries are Dangerous!
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| Describes the difference between a data dictionary and an implicit data dictionary and why an implicit data dictionary (or no data dictionary at all) may spell trouble for your project. Can data dictionaries be used with UML Use Cases or an XP methodology?
Author: Conrad Weisert |
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