Archive for May, 2008

Quick Tip to Help Identify Use Case Actors

A few thoughts on identifying use case actors and a job-aid that may help simplify the effort.

Choosing Between Agile and Classic Management Methods

“[T]he determination is made by evaluating project environments and organizational stakeholders.”

It’s Good to be a Business Analyst II

A recent CIO.com article has piqued the interest of many business analysts.

Documentation is No Substitute for Interaction

I’ve long been of the opinion that involving as many stakeholders in the project as early as possible is a key to successful business analysis, and, more importantly, to successful projects, and have said as much in a few of my posts on this site.

Jim Highsmith, in the book Agile project management : creating innovative products, thinks that the reason projects tend to have so much documentation and so few results is that:

More on User Stories

How are user stories different from use cases and from traditional requirements?

Weekly Digest – 8-17

Requirements for ERP projects, Waterfall as a criminal offense, and what developers want from BA’s.