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» FEATURED: The Next Wave: Valuable Products First, Process Second
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The Next Wave: Valuable Products First, Process Second I'm hearing the word "value" a lot lately. This is partly because the economic downturn has us looking to get the most for our money. But that's not all. More and more managers, business analysts, programmers and testers are talking to me about value. They are concerned that their products provide value for their end users. Many of them express a k...

» The Creative Business Analyst - Part 3, Making Better Decisions
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The Creative Business Analyst - Part 3, Making Better Decisions In this final paper of the series we look at decision making techniques – how to select the best idea from the many we’ve come up with – and how to justify our recommendation to our client, manager and peers.  

» FEATURED: Getting Your Requirements Right: Collaborate With Stakeholders To Work Smarter
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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...

» Detail Process Charts – A Common Ground for Business and Development
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When the first flowcharts were applied to manufacturing processes, they followed the flow of a single part through its manufacture.  They displayed, in sequence, the steps it took to make the part and they made sense.  They were easy to visualize, easy to follow, easy to work with, and they resulted in millions of dollars worth of product...

» Simulation software a cure for hospital's requirements validation ills
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When your users are physicians and nurses, they don't have time to sit in meetings explaining what they want out of an application or to wade through documents validating requirements. Patient care is their number one priority. To get over that obstacle, the development team at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center relies on a sim...

» FEATURED: Exploring Requirements with a Wall of Wonder
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In this article, I describe one very effective collaborative technique -- the Wall of Wonder (WoW) -- that helps software teams produce the kind of detailed, sharply defined requirements that effectively guide development. As an "emergent" deliverable, requirements evolve through exploration and examination using representative forms such as low-fi...

» FEATURED: Integrating iGrafx FlowCharter and Rational Requisite Pro
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While working on a Business Architecture effort several years ago, I collaborated on developing a new internal standard for business process and business capability description. From my perspective, a business capability is the required function or desired service that a business unit performs and the business process is the set of methods employed...

» FEATURED: Security Tool Chest: Checklists
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Every career has a set of skills that one needs to do their job, and a set of tools to carry out the various tasks required to display their skills. Same is the case for the analyst involved in security assessment... I have chosen the all mighty checklist as my tool of choice for this article.  

» FEATURED: Data Analysis for Business Analysts: Tools of the Trade
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Every area of practice in IT has a set of specific “tools” that supports the standard work of technology professionals. Data Analysis is the capture of data requirements, development of models that reflect those requirements and creation of design to store the data. You can accomplish this with a pencil, paper, and the right skill-set. But it can b...

» Requirements Tools that Empower Business Analysts
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Industry experts agree -- the success of any software development project depends directly on the definition of complete, high-quality, accurate requirements. Today's business analyst (BA) takes a lead role in defining those requirements. BAs are responsible for eliciting, analyzing, communicating, and validating requirements for a huge variety of ...
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