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Entries for September 2009


» FEATURED: Transitioning from Technical Writer to Business Analyst
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With evolving economic and technological needs, career moves are practically universal in today's job market. Some of these career moves are actually leaps, such as an accountant transitioning to become a nurse, but others are much closer jumps, such a technical writer or documentation specialist moving into the often similar business analyst's rol...

» The Problem with "Man Hours"
Article Rating (1214 Views) (6 Comments)
I've never been comfortable with the concept of "Man Hours," not that it's a gender issue, but rather it implies ignorance of how time is used in the work place and fumbles away some simple management concepts needed to run any business, namely accountability and commitment. Actually, I thought the "Man Hour" concept disappeared with the passing of...

» FEATURED: Getting Your Requirements Right: Collaborate With Stakeholders To Work Smarter
Article Rating (2591 Views) (1 Comments)
Given the economic downturn, "cheaper, better, faster" seems to be a universal mantra in business. To stay competitive, organizations must continually strive to be more agile and develop higher-quality solutions more quickly-despite obstacles such as geographically distributed teams, limited budgets and resources, quick delivery times, language bar...

» FEATURED: The Cream of the Crop: Cultivating CBAP Competencies for Your Rise to the Top
Article Rating (1907 Views) (2 Comments)
While Business Analysts are in demand, only the best will do. We investigate quintessential business analysis professional competencies, with a discussion of how academics and application can work together for your success. Key planning and preparation insights for CBAP certification are also uncovered.

» FEATURED: Six Sigma and the Business Analyst
Article Rating (3030 Views) (9 Comments)
I began my career at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young where doing business analysis and implementing large scale systems was my job. At that time, I just thought everyone intrinsically knew you had to understand the business and all the requirements before you begin designing a system (whether custom built or off the shelf).

» FEATURED: The Business Analyst of Tomorrow (and Now Today) It is a Software Development Revolution
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We are witnessing a marked increase in both the importance of and focus on the work of the business analyst that is directly proportional to the depth with which cloud computing services are utilized. What's more, we are experiencing a shift in the tools and skills that our analysts and those of our customers are required to utilize.

» The Value of Requirements Traceability
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As the process of capturing and documenting business requirements matures, there is often a watershed moment when an organization must decide whether to perform traceability of requirements as part of that process. Most companies involved with a formal methodology for software development utilize some degree of traceability; but those not familiar ...

» FEATURED: SOA as a Service
Article Rating (824 Views) (0 Comments)
Anyone perusing the computing rags (or their online equivalents) will no doubt have noticed that this year's big thing for applications development is a combination of Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). I'll talk about Clouds in a future blog, as I want to concentrate on the SaaS phenomenon today.

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