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Entries for the 'Business Analysis' Category
» How Far Do You Take Your Business Process Models?
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| Business Process Modeling (BPM) is one of the cornerstone techniques in electing requirements from our stakeholders. Business Analyst will use the model to gain an understanding of the current system and paint a picture of the solution. In the IT field, we often describe this as modeling the “As-IS” process and modeling the “To-Be” process. We deve... |
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» Breaking Through the BA Mystique
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| You can’t work in IT and not have watched “Office Space.” I mean, it’s a prerequisite, isn’t it? It’s like being a developer and never having heard “Code Monkey.” It’s the type of movie where you sit and nod as you laugh, recognizing it is funny because it is true.
My favorite dialogue in the film is between Bob Slydell (one of the Bobs tasked w... |
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» Getting to FRs, part 3 - it's the process, dammit
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People expect a lot from their information systems, but it usually it comes down to one thing: the system has to do stuff. When you talk about systems, the verbs are active: the system is running, it is executing a function, the system is responding, ....
And what do you want it to do? You want it to do as much of your business p... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Getting to FRs, part 2 - Scope is not just mouth wash...
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| Let me reprise the words of Mr. Brooks ...
“… the hardest single part of software development [remains] deciding precisely what to build."
Fred Brooks
Author of the 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet”
The unspoken corollary to this is you have to be sure you don't build the wrong system. Knowing what and what not to build is a matter of definin... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Getting to Functional Requirements, part 1 - the never-ending open-ended question...
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| Back to the nasty question - what sort of Information System shall will we build?
"What sort of system do you want?"
"hmmm, one that processes all our customer orders, I think. What do you think, George?"
"Well Fred, I suppose so, but I know it has to be fast, and run 24/7."
"OK.........(???)"
We already know the problem with asking people... |
Posted by: David Wright
» The "R" Word
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| Software is a uniquely new invention, different than anything else we humans have come up with in the past. ...
"The software-controlled electronic information system is fundamentally different from physical labor-saving devices such as the cotton gin, the locomotive, or the telephone. Rather than extend the ability of hand motion, leg motion, ... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Information Systems Users don't know what they want... So, don't ask them what they want...
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| Information Systems Users don't know what they want... So, don't ask them what they want: and definitely don't write some software and then say "how's this look?".
On the other hand, don't have someone spend weeks talking to various people about what they want ( and not get to talk to other people ), write it all down and deliver a document, sayin... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Upside down Procedures and Processes
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| Are we looking at it all wrong?
Do you ever get the feeling that you are seeing something very different than the other guy? I don’t just mean the glass half full/empty outlook on life, but fundamentally are we looking at things the wrong way?
I sometimes get that feeling when dealing with projects that involve processes, and all my projects are... |
Posted by: Mike Cunningham
» A dressing down for business analysts
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| BA: “They didn’t pitch for my workshop. Again.”
Mentor: “You must be mortified.”
BA: “Seriously, they come up with these lame excuses: they don’t understand that computer stuff, they’re too busy, they think it’s a waste of time. One even told me to get it done and let him have a look when I’m finished. How the hell must I fathom the requirements ... |
Posted by: Robin Grace
» Difference between a Brainstorm and Focus Group
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| If you work in new product development or have participated in maintenance projects, then most likely you have used either the focus group or the brainstorming technique. The brainstorming technique is used to produce ideas and increase creativity. For example, after you’ve defined your problem and are looking for the different solution options, yo... |
Posted by: Linda Erzah, CBAP
» Requirements Gathering
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| Requirements gathering is an essential part of any project and project management. Understanding fully what a project will deliver is critical to its success. This may sound like common sense, but surprisingly it's an area that is often given far too little attention.
Many projects start with the barest headline list of requirements, only to find ... |
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» Kano Analysis as a requirements prioritization model
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| This presentation deck describes the fundamentals of Kano Analysis and how it can be used to prioritize requirements.
Kano Analysis and Software Requrements
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Posted by: Craig Brown
» Separating Requirements Elicitation from Business Analysis
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| What do you need the most when eliciting Requirements? Face-time with Subject Matter Experts and their Managers. As a Business Analyst employed in a typical organization, what is the thing you get the least of? Face-time with Subject Matter Experts and their Managers. Who will Subject Matter Experts and Managers make time to see? Outside Cons... |
Posted by: David Wright
» Robustness Diagrams and Robustness Analysis
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| Dear All BA's,
I am conducting a simple informal survery about the utilization of robustness diagrams and robustness analysis by BA's. The questions will take less than one minute of your time to answer and your input will greatly my research work that I am conducting towards improving the current practices in BA.
Do you use robusntess diagrams a... |
Posted by: Dr. Mohamed El-Attar
» The Role of the Requirements Analyst in Driving Specialized Development Teams to Success
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| I am working on a project where Development teams are divided into specialized areas called Centers of Competence. For example, one team works on Customer data, another team on Product data and validation, another works with the Shopping Cart, another with Checkout and so on. Requirements are gathered within each of these Centers of Competence and ... |
Posted by: Seilevel
» Five New Year’s Resolutions for Requirements
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| It’s that time of year, where our thoughts turn to the holidays…the holiday parties, the shopping, the lights, visiting with family! For many organizations, the end of the year tends to be quiet on the IT front, for no organization wants to risk introducing problems into their production environment at year end.
So as I look back at th... |
Posted by: Seilevel
» Analysis Tools for Non-UI Requirements Gathering
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| Hi Everyone,
In my current company X I am Leading the analysis efforts around retiring legacy application with nemerous external dependancies and as a part of the analysis process my team and I are performing a great deal of reverse engineering. New applications which will be built as a result of retirement this le... |
Posted by: Ella
» Coaching Football and Agile Applications: It’s Game Time
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| Many business analysts and heads of industry find themselves in compromising situations. Their team is down and they can’t seem to move the business properly towards the goal. It seems your competitor across the field is always one step ahead, providing results and fan [customer] satisfaction. But how did they do it and why can’t you come back?
Ga... |
Posted by: Mendix.com
» Challenges with User Stories
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| A Promise to have a Conversation
I’ve been writing user stories for a couple of years now, and the best way I’ve heard how to describe them is that they are a promise to have a conversation. Enough information should be written down to give the reader an idea of what the gist of the story is (and to be able to roughly estimate a story point ... |
Posted by: Seilevel
» Moving to Agile Documentation – why ‘Pair Inspections’ make sense
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| One of the more controversial techniques fostered by some in the agile community is ‘Pair Programming’. It is a practice that originates from Extreme Programming, a specific Agile process pioneered by Kent Beck.
It is controversial, particularly for larger corporates because it seeks to adjust human behaviour patterns. In Pair Programming, develop... |
Posted by: FergalMcGovern
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