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Google Wave for Business Analysis
Like many other business analysts and project professionals, I get excited about nifty new applications and tools that help me do my job...
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Did I Really Write That?
The week before last, I was asked to provide some sample documents from past projects to a gentleman that is transitioning to a business...
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Analysis Model Meme
Life Lessons Flowchart image by nbrier Craig Brown, who runs the fabulous project management/business analysis blog Better Projects made...
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Use Cases or User Stories? Read Up!
There have been some really interesting articles in recent days and weeks that have been comparing use cases and user stories, and...
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Use Case Basics: Distinguishing Between Exception and Alternative Paths
I haven’t been doing a lot of posting in recent days, but I have been doing quite a bit of reading. A while back, I was able to get hold...
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Vision Statement Form and Function
When launching a new product (including projects to update existing ones) it is important that all stakeholders share a simple, focused...
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How hard could it be to design the stop sign?
http://view.break.com/542649 – Watch more free videos I recently stumbled upon this video, got a kick out of it and thoughts I’d share....
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Looking for Sample Requirement Specifications and Templates?
Do you like to look at examples of others’ requirement specs and templates to see what you can learn? I do from time to time and thought...
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Quick Tip to Help Identify Use Case Actors
Wikipedia (with help from Ivar Jacobson) defines actors as: [S]omething or someone which exists outside the system under study, and that...
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More on User Stories
Here are some of my recent findings of interest that I wanted to share in case others of you may be in the same boat. Martin Fowler...
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A Couple Tips on Keeping Use Cases Simple
This modularity can be undermined, though, if we allow our use cases to get too far into specifics and implementation detail. The book...
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Precision Tools: Requirement Structure
I recently posted about the need for accuracy and precision in requirements. In that post, I mentioned that natural language requirements...
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Good Requirements Are More Than Just Accurate
In Requirements, Accuracy Isn’t Enough Allow me to reflect and maybe even toot my own horn here for just a second. Since I’ve been a...
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What are user stories, and why should I use them?
I found a great deal of help in Mike Cohn’s article, Advantages of User Stories for Requirements. In this article, Cohn explains user...
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UML Use Case Modeling – A Little Help?
Now that I’ve sat through some of the training, and gotten a quick peek at some of the tools available, I wanted to appeal to my audience...
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Functional Specs: Don't write them??
This from 37signals: Don’t write a functional specifications document. Why? Well, ther’s nothing functional about a functional...
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Avoiding the "How" Trap in Requirements Authoring
One of the main challenges in drafting requirements is to state “what” the solution must entail, and not “how” the solution must be...
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