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» Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron
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Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron  Adult children. Jumbo shrimp. Seriously funny. I’m sure you recognize these expressions as oxymorons—self-contradictory phrases, often with an ironic meaning.  Should we add “agile requirements” to the list? Does agile development fit in with traditional requirements practices? And if so, how?  

» FEATURED: An Overview of Requirements Elicitation
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An Overview of Requirements Elicitation A thorough discovery of business requirements is almost never readily available at an analyst’s fingertips—rarely can requirements be quickly looked up as one would gather information for a term paper or study for a test. Much of business or technical requirements is not documented anywhere—it resides in the minds of stakeholders, in feedback that ...

» FEATURED: Stakeholder Strategy 101
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Stakeholder Strategy 101 As stakeholders play decisive role towards solution delivery, it would be helpful for business analysts and project managers to have a stakeholder strategy. Stakeholder strategy can help facilitate communication between stakeholders and IT teams. Stakeholder strategy allows project members to consider stakeholder availability and associated risks e...

» FEATURED: Brûlé’s Rules of Playing Telephone with Requirements
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Brûlé’s Rules of Playing Telephone with Requirements  You remember the game of telephone, right? The test of communication skills where one person whispers a message to his neighbor, and that message is translated multiple times from person to person until eventually, the last contestant repeats her interpreted message aloud. The goal is for the final person in the chain to correctly hear the or...

» FEATURED: Requirements and the Beast of Complexity
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Requirements and the Beast of Complexity This article promotes a new approach to requirements management that reduces project complexity and improves communication between business and IT. This new approach can be used on its own, or as a supplement or precursor to existing approaches. Critical features of the approach are: detachment of business requirements from individual projects; and...

» FEATURED: Working with Various Personalities among Stakeholders
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Working with Various Personalities among Stakeholders Smooth stakeholder participation is integral to the success of any project. Sometimes stakeholders hold information that is essential to thorough requirements discovery, so it is important that they be forthcoming. Other stakeholders must sign off on requirements as being final in order for a project to move forward, so it is important that they be...

» FEATURED: BAs Will Falter Until They Learn to Discover REAL, Business Requirements
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BAs Will Falter Until They Learn to Discover REAL, Business Requirements Widely-accepted conventional requirements models continue to create creep—changes to settled requirements which are a major cause of project overruns. Business Analysts and others will continue to encounter such creep so long as they follow flawed models focusing on requirements of a product or system being created without adequately also discoveri...

» FEATURED: An Overview of Business Requirements
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An Overview of Business Requirements With business analysis projects, as with all endeavors, you have to know where you are going before you can chart your course to get there. In other words, before you can decide whether to take a train, bus, or plane, what time of day you will travel, and what you will carry, you have to decide where you are going. So it is with requirements. Befo...

» FEATURED: An Introduction to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK 2.0)
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An Introduction to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK 2.0) The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® 2.0) is the definitive guide to the profession of business analysis. Every business analyst can profit from it, and few analysts can afford to be without it.

» Generic Questions for Interviewing Stakeholders
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The purpose of this article is to assist the business analyst engaged in the elicitation of stakeholder requirements. The key to any successful elicitation is asking the right questions whether it be in interviews or a facilitation session. Although the right questions are dependent on the solution scope, there are generic questions that the busine...
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