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» Five Tips for Infusing Business Analysis Into Your Projects
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| In business today, any project is ultimately measured by one thing: return on investment. There are dozens of metrics to be measured along the way—from budget and deadline to scope and stakeholder satisfaction—however, at the end of the day, ROI trumps all.
Remember the movie Titanic? It overshot its budget by a nautical mile and took much long... |
» Requirements gathering resources, practices lacking at Fortune 500 companies
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| Requirements gathering resources and best practices were found lacking at Fortune 500 companies, a recent study from Voke Inc. found. But if business analysts are equipped with the right tools and enough resources, businesses stand to benefit greatly. |
» Top 10 Technology Careers
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| As technology stocks waned in the last few months of the 20th century, some analysts worried that technology degrees wouldn't be as valuable as they had been during the "dot-com bubble." They couldn't have been more wrong.
It's not just industry heavyweights like Google and Apple who are acquiring new real estate to house all their new hires. E... |
» Security is Everyone’s Responsibility
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| If you have been following my column over the past few months you should have a pretty good idea of where and when security comes into play for a typical organization.
Something that needs to be said however, is, that not all organizations have a dedicated roll responsible for security. Even if there is a dedicated roll, that person can’t be in... |
» 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... |
» FEATURED: Software Sizing During Requirements Analysis
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| Software production has become one of the key activities of the industrialized world. Software applications are now the driving force of business, government operations, military equipment, and most of the services that we take for granted: electric power, water supplies, telephones, and transportation.
Most major companies and government agenc... |
» Offshore outsourcing projects: Seven things every project manager should know
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| Project managers handling offshore outsourced software projects face extra challenges. PM expert Bas de Baar explains how managers can work with and learn from their foreign partners and employees. Here are seven things you really have to know before you get started. |
» Business Analysis - An Overview of the Profession
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| Business analysis involves analyzing a business: what its goals are, how those goals connect to specific objectives, and determining the courses of action that a business has to undertake to achieve those goals and objectives.
The formal definition of business analysis found in version 2 of the Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge i... |
» Volere Requirements Techniques: an Overview
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| The Volere requirements techniques were developed to answer the need for a common language for discovering requirements and connecting them to solutions. The language needs to be understandable by business people, customers, business analysts, engineers, designers, suppliers, testers or anyone else whose input is needed. All of these people have di... |
» FEATURED: Eight Competencies a Business Analyst Needs to Know
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| Every year, organizations around the world face startlingly high project failure rates. Some research has shown that less than 30 percent of software projects are completed on time and on budget—and barely 50 percent end up meeting their proposed functionality. If you’re a big league baseball player, failing five to seven times out of ten will get ... |
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