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» Agile Requirements Modeling
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| Many traditional project teams run into trouble when they try to define all of the requirements up front, often the result of a misguided idea that developers will actually read and follow what the requirements document contains. The reality is that the requirements document is usually insufficient, regardless of how much effort goes into it, the r... |
» Exploiting use cases to improve test quality
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| Test organizations can realize significant gains in test quality by harnessing the power of use cases. For years, developers and business analysts have employed use case models to capture requirements. Test organizations can greatly benefit by using these same use case techniques. Well-constructed use cases provide value to testing efforts in terms... |
» Agile RUP: Experiences from the trenches
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| This article, actually a compilation of three articles, provides proven advice for applying agile strategies on IBM® Rational® Unified Process®, or RUP®, teams. The articles are written by Mark Lines, Joshua Barnes, and Julian Holmes respectively, co-founders of Unified Process Mentors (www.upmentors.com). These three have mentored literally thousa... |
» Mapping from Business Processes to Requirements Specification
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| There are three basic reasons why you might need to model a business: to re-engineer a business, to improve a business process and to automate a business process.
Nevertheless, another reason may be very useful for analyst of software systems and their customers – to understand and automatically generate functional requirements to the system.
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» FEATURED: Is the BA an endangered species with the growth of Agile?
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| First, I'm a project focused software developer, team lead, designer, architect, jack of all trades, who has been on projects that have used various methodologies over the years, including of late some agile projects.
I'm not a big blog reader, or a big blogger, but like most people I have an opinion on things, and for some reason that opinio... |
» Agile Analysis
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| Agile software developers, just like traditional software developers, perform analysis activities. Unlike traditional developers, agilists approach analysis in a highly collaborative manner and do so on a just-in-time (JIT) basis. Analysis is so important to us we do it every single day. In this article, I discuss:
What is analysis?
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» IIBA February 2008 Newsletter
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| In this issue of the IIBA Newsletter:
IIBA Blog Spotlight
As the IIBA is a virtual organization, the Blog is an integral way for the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to communicate with members worldwide. The topics range widely: from technical pieces such as BABOK® updates to more informal pieces like “A day in the life…”
2008 CBAP Exam Dates
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» Requirements Prioritization Introduction
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| Once a set of security requirements has been identified, it is often the case that they need to be prioritized. Due to time and budget constraints, it is often difficult to implement all the requirements that have been elicited for a system. It may also be the case that security requirements are implemented in stages, and prioritization can help to... |
» Shapeth Up and Get Thine Act Together
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| My friends and colleagues often ask me how I am able to produce so much in so little time. Although I am flattered by such compliments, it's really not much of a secret which I attribute to the following areas (in no particular order):...
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» Business Analysts Should be Corporate Assets
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| A project manager's first task after being appointed to an IT development is to seek out a business analyst to gather requirements. After that, it's on to the development and then the implementation. It's the way it's done. It's the way it's always been done.
But business analysts are not used optimally if they are only used to "gather" require... |
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