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» FEATURED: From Research to Implementation: Activity Diagram – Usage and Benefits
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From Research to Implementation: Activity Diagram – Usage and Benefits As part of the Unified Modeling Language, Activity diagrams are often utilized for many software projects. However, a few questions about Activity diagrams linger in the minds of many Business Analysts, such as: Who is really using them? What kind of projects are they being used on? Why are people not using them? How are people using...

» FEATURED: Documenting SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
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Documenting SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) For projects that may well be delivered by Service Oriented Architecture (possibly using Service Oriented Analysis), I would suggest that you may need to consider different or additional ways of documenting your requirements and specifications. The reason for this is that the way you shape your requirements needs to encompass both the holistic natu...

» Three Types of Design Effort
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Three Types of Design Effort In I.T., are we really spending too much time on "maintenance"?  Within any systems development organization, there are but three types of work effort: new systems development, maintenance, and modification/improvements. A mature development organization will spend approximately 5% of its time on new development, 10% on maintenance, and 85% of...

» FEATURED: How do BAs operate in your organisation? : A pragmatic guide to the different roles of the Business Analyst
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How do BAs operate in your organisation? : A pragmatic guide to the different roles of the Business Analyst Business Analysis is a term that covers a wide range of different disciplines, which has grown in scope over the past 10-15 years. BAs can become involved in a variety of different activities, depending on the organisation and the particular project that they are working on – these can range from very technical to very business focused activities.&...

» FEATURED: Why Rulebook Management?
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Why Rulebook Management? Contrary to what you might think, the problem that rulebook management addresses is a relatively simple one. Its solution is relatively simple too. The reason people have a hard time seeing that is because the problem is so big. It’s all around us, everywhere we look – a whole host of trees blinding us to the forest.

» True Systems Analysis?
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True Systems Analysis? Regretably, many of today's Systems Analysts are still glorified programmers in sheep's clothing.  I recently came across some job postings under the title, "Systems Analyst," and it occurred to me people still do not know what it means. In the postings I saw things like "seeking a Systems Analyst with 4 - 6 years experience... Candi...
  

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