Search results for: “visual”
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The Real Value of Visuals in Solution Delivery – A Reprise
The process of collaborative creation; of drawing and deliberating and rationalizing potential paths together until we reach an agreed upon “best way forward” provides…
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Jabian Journal and Visual Communication
My employer, Jabian Consulting, produces a semi-annual publication of our consultants’ latest thinking on today’s most important business and technology issues. The Spring, 2014 issue just came out…
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Visual Modeling: A Critical Skill for Business Analysts
As facilitators of knowledge exchange, tasked with helping business and delivery stakeholders reach that “shared vision”, effective use of visual models is a critical…
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Requirement Visualization: Mock-up & Wireframe Goodies
Here are some great product links and quotes on rapid UI prototyping that have helped reinforce the value of visualized requirements in my mind,…
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Process Flow Diagram Quality Rules
Process Modeling Reference A practitioner’s checklist for evaluating grammar, style, shapes, connectors, swimlanes, and layout in boxes-and-arrows process flows and UML Activity Diagrams. ~10…
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Specification: Where Clarity Becomes Commitment
Think of specs as the GPS for delivery—useless if incorrect or unclear, essential when right. Specification is the process of representing business or customer…
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What does it take to go from fuzzy concept to well-defined solution?
There’s a rhythm to effective solution definition, and it goes something like this: Elicitation. Analysis. Specification. Validation. Management. (EASVM, for short.) It isn’t the…
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The Book, The Movie, and the Business Document
Communication using only words – whether verbal or written – leaves much to the imagination. Which is part of the appeal when it comes…
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Mentions, Publications and Accolades
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Distinguishing between Business Rules and Software Requirements
Many BAs I coach make the mistake of mixing software capabilities with business rules, employee procedures, and operational guidelines when documenting requirements for an…
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How Does Elicitation Feel to You?
There are a few essential questions we should always keep at top of mind during our discovery and solution definition efforts. I’d like to…
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Tweets of the Week
I’m a professional book junkie. Couple my commute with an Audible account, and I cover quite a bit of ground in short order. In…
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Be Kind to your Stakeholders!
The problem is usually not that the stakeholders don’t want to engage, but that we make make communication way too hard for them.
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Key Knowledge Areas for Business Analysts
I have found there to be four key knowledge/capability domains that are especially important to business analysts. In this article I’ll provide a brief description of …
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A Requirements Model (Graphic)
There is no perfect, fits-all template or set of documents which will be effective across all companies or even for all of a given…