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» FEATURED: Why Create Multiple Requirements Views?

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If you create only one view of the requirements, you must believe it. You have no other choice. If you develop multiple views, though, you can compare them to look for disconnects that reveal errors and different interpretations. There’s an old saying, variously attributed to the Swedish Army, the Swiss Army, the Norwegian Boy Scouts, a Scottish pr...

» FEATURED: The Six Blind Men and the Requirements

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There’s an old fable about six blind men who encountered an elephant for the first time. Although they couldn’t see it, they wanted to learn what an elephant was like. Each of them touched a different part of the elephant.

» FEATURED: An Introduction to Data Flow Diagrams

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A data flow diagram (commonly abbreviated to DFD) shows what information is needed within a process, where it is stored, and how it moves through a system to accomplish an objective. As its name implies, a data flow diagram depicts the flow of data within a system.

» FEATURED: Business Rules: Basic Principles and Pattern Questions for Business Analysts

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Business Rules: Basic Principles and Pattern Questions for Business Analysts

Before harvesting business rules, you should be aware of some basic principles and absorb them into your practices. First, all business rules are subject to change, including (and perhaps especially) business rules derived directly from business policies. The ability to change and redeploy business rules is essential to business agility.

» FEATURED: A Proposal for an Agile Development Testing V-Model

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A Proposal for an Agile Development Testing V-Model

This article proposes a V-Model for agile development testing and invites feedback from the reader. The agile method used in this article is Scrum; the author assumes the reader is familiar with this solution development life cycle.

» FEATURED: Introducing RuleGuide™ - Business Decision and Rule Management

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Introducing RuleGuide™ - Business Decision and Rule Management

RuleGuide is a tool that accelerates and improves the quality of business decision and rule capture, analysis and management. By providing an enterprise repository for business decisions, rules, and associated metadata, RuleGuide fosters ongoing collaboration and alignment ofthe business and IT teams.

» FEATURED: Classifying Decision Model Structures

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In this article we focus, not so much on the similarities among decision models, but on their differences. More than that, we explore the idea of classifying decision model structures based on differences in their logic. The decision model diagram is the first place to look for visible differences among decision models.

» FEATURED: Systems Thinking: Understanding the Whole and Not Just the Parts

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Systems Thinking: Understanding the Whole and Not Just the Parts

I was very intrigued with this concept when I read it in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK). This concept is so powerful and if used more in organizations can produce remarkable events; however, I have found that Systems Thinking can only be utilized to its fullest potential if the culture of the organization allows for that. However, ...

» FEATURED: Data Flow Diagram with Examples & Tips

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The Data Flow Diagram (DFD) provides a graphical representation of the flow of data through a system. It shows logically what information is exchanged by our system processes and external interfaces or data stores, but it does not explicitly show when or in what sequence the information is exchanged.

» FEATURED: Business Analysis with Business Rules

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Continuous change is a central fact of life for business these days. The techniques you use for business analysis must be based on the assumption that business rules will change, often quite rapidly. The best business solution is one that caters to such change, always doing so in the manner friendliest to business people and Business Analysts.

» FEATURED: Agile vs. Traditional Software Development: Why is the debate still going on? - Part I: The dangers of bounded rationality

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Agile vs. Traditional Software Development: Why is the debate still going on? - Part I: The dangers of bounded rationality

My understanding is that, in practice, successful agilists tend to bring together a number of activities, tasks, and deliverables that are from beyond the boundaries of what may be called “pure agile.” This mixing and matching of software process elements from agile and non-agile (more formal) approaches is a much more practical way of using these ...

» FEATURED: Putting Systems Analysis “Into Context” using the Context Diagram

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This article is all about putting your systems analysis into context; literally and metaphorically. It’s all about drawing and interpreting the not-quite-UML Context Diagram that is sometimes referred to as the System Context Diagram.

» History Repeats Itself, But It Doesn’t Have To!

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History Repeats Itself, But It Doesn’t Have To!

Why does it take an 'act of congress' for some organizations to realize that what they are doing is not working? I have been in many industries(media, manufacturing, financial and the judicial system) and no matter what industry I've been in I’ve seen some of the same themes.

» FEATURED: The Real Brains Behind Better Facilitation

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The Real Brains Behind Better Facilitation

Facilitation is one of the most critical soft skills of the business analyst, as well as one of the most difficult to master. Working with various stakeholders requires tremendous preparation, insight and finesse in addition to an understanding of key principles of the facilitation process.

» FEATURED: Business Analysis Certificate Program Features The Decision Model

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Business Analysis Certificate Program Features The Decision Model

Like most business analysts, Charles captured business rules as part of requirements gathering. Also like most business analysts, he followed traditional business rules approaches. These included writing individual business rule expressions, storing them outside the confines of process models and use cases, and providing pointers to them. However, ...

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