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» Requirements When the Field Isn’t Green

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Most books and articles on software requirements are written as though you’re gathering requirements for a brand-new product—what’s sometimes called a green-field project. In reality, few people have that opportunity on every project. Many developers work on maintenance projects. In such a project you’re usually adding...

» The Yin and Yang Of Project Management and Business Analysis

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In the July 07 newsletter of the International Legal Technology Association (ITLA) there is an article explaining the difference between the PM and BA role. It appears the ITLA is interested in improving clarity on the value of the BA.In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the important roles business analysts (BA...

» When Telepathy Won’t Do: Requirements Engineering Key Practices

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The software industry is exhibiting an increasing interest in requirements engineering — that is, understanding what you intend to build before you’re done building it. Despite the hype of "Internet time," companies across many business domains realize that time spent understanding the business problem is an excellent investme...

» What is a Business Analyst?

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Today the term Business Analyst is synonymous with a career in the IT industry but the most successful and valuable analysts are those who understand the 'business' rather than those who understand IT. So what exactly is a Business Analyst? What is the Business Analyst’s role? What is the best background for this job? What skill set is required? Wh...

» FEATURED: How to Document Information System Requirements

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In the discipline of business analysis, the "hard skill" is writing (or modeling) and documenting the system or software requirements so that they are recorded, communicated and approved. Often, however, this important skill is also the one that is understood the least. Various formats or deliverables are used to document system and software requ...

» Introduction to BPMN

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This paper is intended to provide a high-level overview and introduction to the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). The context and general uses for BPMN will be provided as a supplement to the technical details defined the BPMN 1.0 Specification, which has been recently completed and released to the public. The basics of the BPMN notation w...

» Validated requirements from business use cases and the Rational Unified Process

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Effective communication among application development project stakeholders is often challenging, especially when the team is geographically distributed or time constrained. IBM® Rational® software helps organizations automate, integrate, and govern the core business process of software and systems delivery via the IBM Rational Software Delivery Pla...

» Tips for Business Analysts: Career Paths for Business Analysts

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People come to the job of Business Analyst in many different ways. Some people graduate from college and immediately start to work as a junior Analyst for a major corporation. Often a Business Analyst has some years of work experience in some related field before starting to work as an analyst. You may choose to work for a company in the role of B...

» Prioritization Puzzles: Practices for Prioritizing Your Product Requirements

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Not all requirements are created equal, so to make smart choices about which product requirements you should explore and implement—or whether you should delve into them at all—you need to prioritize them. Many teams do not prioritize properly and waste time specifying requirements that are never delivered. Why spend time and energy on r...

» Business Analysis Center of Excellence

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The Cornerstone of Business Transformation. The fiercely competitive twenty-first century business environment poses challenges at every turn. Both public and for-profit organizations must be flexible and adaptable to remain competitive. It is through successful projects that organizations manage change, deliver new business solutions, and ultimat...

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