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» Handling Requirements Effectively on Agile Projects

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Why has it been necessary to write so many different, book-length treatises about requirements management on software projects? Is it not possible to develop an approach to handling software requirements that is simple enough to express concisely -- and yet can work with large, complex projects as well as smaller efforts? At the risk of using a...

» FEATURED: Integrating and Understanding Standard Business Analysis Methodologies To Develop New Technology Hybrids

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Across North America, businesses in all sectors are adopting standard development methodologies to turn out a higher quality of goods and services. The tried and true approaches that have yielded such great results for competitors are heralded as best practices. But here is the sad news: no one methodology fits all. In fact, different methodologies...

» Complex Requirements On an Agile Project

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The real world is a complex place, resulting in complex requirements for any system that has to work there. This is true regardless of development paradigm. Although "agile in the small" methodologies such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) have done much to show us how to improve our approach, too many people have thrown out the requirements ma...

» Beyond Functional Requirements On Agile Projects

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Study after study has shown poor requirements management is the leading cause of failure for traditional software development teams. When it comes to requirements, agile software developers typically focus on functional ones that describe something of value to end users—a screen, report, feature, or business rule. Most often these functional requir...

» FEATURED: Agile Business Analysis: Interview with Scott Ambler

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Whether you’ve never heard of Agile or you just finished your nth Agile project, you need to understand that Agile is here to stay! Are you, the Business Analyst, an extinct species in this new world? Is your career changing? Do you need new skills? Agile guru and visionary Scott Ambler talked with Adrian Marchis, ModernAnalyst.com's Publishing Ed...

» FEATURED: The Keys to Successful Agile Requirements: One Business Analyst’s Transition to a New Approach

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Change seems to be a popular word in this pivotal election year. When I think about change, I recognize that it impacts each of us in many forms. One of the biggest changes I’ve experienced as a Business Analyst was the transition from working requirements in a traditional project lifecycle to an Agile methodology. The change was introduced to my p...

» FEATURED: How to Be an Agile Business Analyst

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A question was asked in the Modern Analyst forums. I paraphrase: "How does a BA do their work in an Agile project? Can you give some practical examples?" I've thought quite a bit about this topic and have experience with BAs on agile developments as a project manager and business analyst. As a project manager I get frustrated by (but...

» FEATURED: Standing Up for 15 Minutes: Why?

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The ultimate management sin is to waste people’s time, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister told us in their famous book Peopleware [1]. This includes having pointless meetings that prevent people from actually doing anything useful. Nevertheless, some meetings are considered a necessary evil and therefore the so-called “agile movement” in software devel...

» Rapid Requirements Engineering – Does a Specification Always Need to Come at the Start?

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Requirements and the way they are dealt with are decisive to the success of a project. This statement is never really questioned in modern software engineering circles. Why is it, then, that a systematic requirements engineering (RE) system is so rarely established? Where do the problems lie when it comes to implementing such a system? This p...

» FEATURED: Agile Requirements, in Context

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"As I discussed my May article for Modern Analyst, there's a lot of hype about the role of requirements in agile projects. Many people think you don’t “do” requirements on an agile project. Hogwash. Indeed, agile projects use requirements—but just enough requirements at just the right time." In this article Ellen covers a number of agile requireme...

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