Tag: visualization

Visual Modeling: A Critical Skill for Business Analysts

Visual Modeling: A Critical Skill for Business Analysts

| May 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

As facilitators of knowledge exchange, tasked with helping business and delivery stakeholders reach that “shared vision”, effective use of visual models is a critical skill.

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There are No Reliable Words

There are No Reliable Words

| May 30, 2011 | 4 Comments

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.”
— George Orwell

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Tools: Risk Matrix

Tools: Risk Matrix

| May 19, 2011 | 5 Comments

I really like a simple risk matrix as a visual aid, because it makes it much easier for me to explain of how severity and probability combine to make a risk more or less serious than if I tried to explain it with words alone.

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Quoteworthy: Paul Martin Lester – Words and Images Work Together

| March 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

Words and pictures are intricately linked in journalism, advertising and educational contexts. Words printed under a photograph, the caption, signal the importance of the common sense representations portrayed in the image. Words beside a picture in an advertisement explain a product and its attributes clearly to a potential customer. Words spoken by an instructor give [...]

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Give ‘em Pictures!

Give ‘em Pictures!

| February 3, 2010 | 11 Comments

One of the surest ways to ensure project success is to get “pictures” in front of the users/stakeholders as early in the process as possible.

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Requirement Visualization: Mock-up & Wireframe Goodies

Requirement Visualization: Mock-up & Wireframe Goodies

| April 27, 2009 | 6 Comments

Here are some great product links and quotes on rapid UI prototyping that have helped reinforce the value of visualized requirements in my mind, and that I thought you might find interesting.

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