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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 View more presentations from Craig Brown

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Satisfy Requirements with Continuous End User Involvement

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Perhaps the most important facet of agile software development is its innate ability to satisfy user requirements better, more accurately, more consistently, than what is considered ‘traditional’ software development. Where ‘traditional’ software development begs the user for all necessary information upfront and then reluctantly for feedback at th...

Posted by: Mendix.com

» 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...

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» 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

» The Agile Application Assassin

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You know, it’s the coolest nickname I’ve ever received - but it almost sounds negative. I mean am I going in and assassinating your application? No, I go in and make the changes you request and re-deploy your application. So why give me that nickname? Pretty easy I guess, when I’m operating strictly as the implementer of a solution, I am able to...

Posted by: Mendix.com

» 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

» Enter the Business Engineer: Part 2

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In a previous post regarding the emergence of the Business Engineer, I discussed the Who, What and Why of this new type of human capital. At Mendix, we see them growing in numbers, most likely due to the nature of our software. If you’re going to give business analysts the ability to develop software, or developers the ability to communicate busine...

Posted by: Mendix.com

» Telecom Companies are ready for the Cloud

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Telecommunications companies are looking to cloud computing to clean up inefficient processes throughout the sales channel. The products and services in this industry change so often that these companies have become more competitive than ever, with continuously shrinking margins. Flexible front end solutions bring agility to the sales proce...

Posted by: Mendix.com

» Mendioms for Business Analysts

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A Mendiom is an idiom with a Mendix twist. This is the first of a series of posts with Mendioms for different types of people. This week, we have chosen a few of our favorite Mendioms for business analysts. Business analysts are an important part of an organization’s business agility. By having the responsibility of communicating between b...

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» Visual Modeling – Stopping IT Failure at the Root of the Cause

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I came across this slideshow from CIO Insight a few weeks ago. The aggressive-looking deck attempts to explain why IT projects fail. I’m always a bit weary of headlines that seem this simplistic, but who knows – maybe they thought up some new ways to blow a project that millions of us hadn’t already avoided, accomplished, or observed. Better yet, w...

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» BA World Sydney - A review

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I went to the Business Analyst World Conference in Melbourne on the 19th and 20th of July. Like last year it was a great event. On day 1 I spent the whole day in one room (introducing speakers.) and got to listen to three very different stories. Matthew Coppola from Perth training outfit Paramount Training gave a talk on Und...

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Blurring the Lines between Business and IT

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A “What If” question for business analysts and IT professionals… What if it suddenly became very easy for someone to do both your job and their own, at the same time? If history provides any forecast for the future of IT, we are likely to see some interesting changes in the way human capital is managed – especially for those of us involved in the...

Posted by: Derek Roos

» Slideshow: Agile for Analysts

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Agile for the rest of us

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Agile plus Prince2

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My view is that you are making a serious compromise to the potential benfits of swapping across to agile methods if you hang on to a traditional pm process like PRINCE2, but others have different views. Here is one from New Zealand (I think.)

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Test driven development

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Test driven development is not actually a test methodology. It's a design philosophy that says "start with the end in mind" (Thank you Mr Covey.) Here is a slideshow introducing some of the concepts and ideas within the agile method called Test Driven Development. Test Driven Development Tutorial:

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Scrum in one hour

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Here is the co-author/assembler of the scrum process describing it at Google. It's a more in-depth description of the process. Check back with the last agile post's questions and think about whether this presentation has given you a deeper understanding.

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Agile Business Analysis using UML

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Following the lead of another forum, where the question was asked about the use of UML by Business Analysts, I would like to ask the same question when we come to Agile Analysis. The answer is NOT simple and like all professional questions needs analysis. This means, I shall post a series of these blog pages, expanding one point at a time. I will ...

Posted by: Gil

» Scrum in 5 minutes

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This 5 minute video explains the basics of the scrum process. Scrum is one of, if not THE most, popular agile method. This process raises a few questions: As a BA are you more suited to the role of scrum master, product owner or team member? How do you change the way you manage requirements when you are targetting small increm...

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Agile, erm, yeh sure... I know what you are talking about

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Guys and gals Observing the forum here and industry discussions there appears to be some radical changes going on that are being ignored by the BA community. It appears to me that the BA community is largely ignoring this Agile revolution. Is this true? Are you ignoring it and focusing on getting your job done, and maybe even doing it bett...

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Software project methodologies

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Jurgen Appelo runs a blog at Noop.nl. He posted a summary on some project methods. I migrated them into a ppt for slideshare. I hope this is intereting for you. Software Project Methods

Posted by: Craig Brown

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