Business Analysis Digest (09-12)
JB | Mar 21, 2009 | No Comment | Print |

Here are some more interesting reads from my business analysis bookmarks. If you’d like to hear about my bookmarks as I find them, you’re welcome to follow me on Twitter.
- INDEX for business analysis – Marcus Ting-A-Kee is maintaining a really useful and comprehensive index of blog entries touching on skills for beginning BA’s, requirements fundamentals and other topics of interest for analysts of all levels. I just found it this morning and have already begun reading my way through the list.
- Read the UML Guy’s argument for Requirements Analysts, where we read “If we don’t know our requirements, we can’t have quality.”
- Marc Talbot @ Seilevel wrote an interesting post on recognizing and cataloging patterns in software requirements. Marc’s post has caused me to reflect on some similar work I’ve been doing that I’ll probably post on in the next week or two.
- Jama Software, creators of the Jama Contour requirements management tool, has issued a whitepaper providing “7 Essential Tips to Ensure Success with Requirements Management.” It’s worth a read and provides links to some free templates, including a prioritization matrix template that I thought was pretty good.
- The cranky product manager laments the “crazy, insulting, demeaning, and threatening lunatic fringe” of the agile community that is waging a religious war against “non-believers”. Wow.
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