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» FEATURED: Which Should Come First, Requirements Management Tools or Processes? Hint: It’s Not What You Expect!

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Which Should Come First, Requirements Management Tools or Processes? Hint: It’s Not What You Expect!

I was asked my opinion about whether I’d want project managers to focus on processes first or tools first. Without hesitation, my response was “I don’t really care whether project managers focus on process or tools first,as long as they don’t get in the way of our doing good business analysis!”

» FEATURED: Introducing RuleGuide™ - Business Decision and Rule Management

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Introducing RuleGuide™ - Business Decision and Rule Management

RuleGuide is a tool that accelerates and improves the quality of business decision and rule capture, analysis and management. By providing an enterprise repository for business decisions, rules, and associated metadata, RuleGuide fosters ongoing collaboration and alignment ofthe business and IT teams.

» Business Process Management Across the Extended Enterprise: Challenges, Examples and Benefits of Web-Based Software

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Business Process Management Across the Extended Enterprise: Challenges, Examples and Benefits of Web-Based Software

There are considerable benefits from extending business process management capabilities outside the boundaries of the company, and clearly measurable value is much easier to quantify when stakeholders are outside the traditional walls of the business.

» FEATURED: Improve Business-IT Interactions with the Right BPM Tool

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Improve Business-IT Interactions with the Right BPM Tool

As a result of budget constraints and limited resources, many companies, (mine included) look to automating tasks and processes to improve efficiency. And one of the easiest areas to demonstrate immediate improvement is by automating a manual process. While almost any manual process could show results by ‘simply’ being able to move documents and fi...

» FEATURED: The Tame, the Messy, and the Wicked

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Abraham Maslow once said “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” This article provides the project manager (PM) / business analyst (BA) a framework for categorizing business problems as a baseline for selecting a solution development life cycle (SDLC).

» Software Tools for The Decision Model-Part 1

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Software Tools for The Decision Model-Part 1

A software tool for The Decision Model supports the entire life cycle of Decision Management. This includes the authoring, analysis, testing and deployment of entire decision models. Whether managed by the business – as some people consider ideal – or managed by IT or business analysts on behalf of the business – as others consider necessary – busi...

» FEATURED: iRise Requirements Visualization

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Thousands of business analysts have turned to software visualization from as a strategy to simplify their jobs and cut through the confusion. With iRise, business analysts are empowered to quickly assemble a high-fidelity working preview of an application before development ever begins. These visualizations look and act just like the final product,...

» Vetting documents for quality – the case for automation

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Vetting documents for quality – the case for automation

In many organizations, Centers of Excellence, PMOs (Program/Project Management Office) and PQA (Process & Quality Assurance) teams use a variety of manual techniques to vet documentation that are time consuming and manual; leaving room for unintentional mistakes, missed steps and delays in catching errors with regards to governance and best pra...

» FEATURED: How the BA Can Take Advantage of Free Online Diagramming Tools

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How the BA Can Take Advantage of Free Online Diagramming Tools

Almost every business analyst uses diagramming software in their arsenal of analysis tools. According to BABOK 2.0, an analyst’s traditional purpose in using diagramming tools is to “support the rapid drawing and documentation of a model, typically by providing a set of templates for a particular notation which are used to develop diagrams based on...

» 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...

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