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» FEATURED: Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice

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Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice

Extreme Inspections are a low-cost, high-improvement way to assure specification quality, effectively teach good specification practice, and make informed decisions about the requirements specification process and its output, in any project. The method is not restricted to be used on requirements analysis related material; this article however is l...

» 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...

» FEATURED: Guerrilla Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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Guerrilla Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

It is unfortunate, but not surprising, that the elegant and relatively simple view of SOA has become bloated with a bewildering array of methodologies and products, leading to confusion and bafflement by many of its proponents and potential converts.

» Business Agility and the New Role of the Business Analyst

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In a series of conversations, Kevin Brennan and I discussed the new role of the business analyst and what the future holds for people who build careers in this field. To structure our conversation, we articulated a central idea or axiom and then defined four key propositions that flow from that axiom. Presented below are that axiom and our thoughts...

» FEATURED: A View to Agile Requirements

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In agile projects, you deliver the product in a series of successive and sensibly staged releases. Each release represents the culmination of a series of requirements decisions... One of your biggest challenges is ongoing-how to group and sequence requirements for optimal delivery. Let's take a look at adapting requirements workshops to meet that c...

» Business Analysts: Role Changes Require New Skill Sets

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The business analyst's job has changed this year -- and so have the critical skills that companies demand. New research shows that while communication is still key, knowledge of Lean and Agile methods is a must-have as well.

» FEATURED: Agile Business Analysis in Flow --The Work of the Agile Analyst (Part 2)

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In Part 1 of this article, I talked about the new skills and attitudes business analysts need to bring to agile development... Now it's time to talk specifics. What exactly do BAs do in agile development? How will your activities differ from those of traditional development? Let's take a look at agile business analysis from the perspecti...

» Ensuring Requirements Gathering Success in an Agile Environment

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Quality requirements contribute to the success of agile and traditional project management projects. The requirements definition process followed in a traditional project management framework and the features-based storyboarding that is typical of agile approaches are different, but they also have many similarities. The actual process used to defin...

» FEATURED: A Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise

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Agile development practices introduced, adopted and extended the XP-originated "User Story" as the primary currency for expressing application requirements within the agile enterprise. The just-in-time application of the user story simplified software development and eliminated the prior waterfall like practices of overly burdensome and overly cons...

» FEATURED: Agile Business Analysis in Flow - The Work of the Agile Analyst (Part 1)

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Agile is here, and it's coming soon to an organization near you-if it's not already there. As a business analyst, are you ready to make the transition to this value-centered development approach? How will your role change? What will you do differently? What will you actually do as part of an agile team? What agile analysis practices might you adapt...

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