All Entries Tagged With: "preparation"
Requirements Elicitation: Are You the Artist, or the Order-Taker?
Requirements elicitation is an art. Watching a solid business analyst efficiently identify and document business need by using a careful mix of questions is much like watching the work of any other type of artist.
Meeting Agenda as Catalyst?
What are leading reasons for unproductive review sessions of project deliverables? One comes quickly to mind for me – how about when 90% of your invitees show up without having even glanced at the materials in advance.
For one thing, holding a meeting in this environment is not only incredibly inefficient, but it is also unfair [...]
Planning a Successful Review Meeting, Part I
Holding requirement specification reviews is an activity that is critical to ensuring the quality of your deliverables. Review meetings aren’t typically “fun”, but they can be run smoothly and efficiently. They can also be excruciating if the the organizer and/or the attendees are not sufficiently prepared ahead of time.
I plan to post a few things [...]