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Agile Teamwork – what BA’s need to know (Guest Post)
Agile team members must know something about teamwork and this means understanding a lot about human behavior and why people do the things they…
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Quoteworthy: Karl Popper
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. – Karl Popper
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Quoteworthy: Kulak & Guinney
An appropriate and complete requirements specification does nothing to ensure a successful implementation; however, it makes it possible. – Kulak & Guinney
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Quoteworthy: Joseph Joubert
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear. – Joseph Joubert
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Cascade: Q&A with David Wright
Cascade: Better practices for effective delivery of information systems in a multi-project environment.
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The Business Analyst Balancing Act
BA’s must balance the risk of missing requirements against that of paralyzing the project until “everything” is known.
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Quotable: Whitney Young
It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. – Whitney Young
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Time Travel for Context-free Use Cases
Yes, sometimes we BA’s need to think of creative ways to help us withhold the technology and implementation detail from our requirements.
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Bookmarks & New Favorites (09-38)
a few of the articles I found “bookmark-worthy” over the past week.
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Quoteworthy: Jim Brosseau
There will never be “the right approach” for all projects. Software projects come in too many shapes and sizes. There are too many cultures,…
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Classic Business Analysis Articles
I was sorting through some of my bookmarks and articles I’ve accumulated over time via the Web, and found that there are a few…
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Quoteworthy: Alistair Cockburn
Agile … is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn’t ask “can I use agile here”,…
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Quotable: Herbert Kaufman
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. – Herbert Kaufman
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Quoteworthy: H.L. Mencken on Simple Solutions to Complex Problems
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. – H.L. Mencken
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Quoteworthy: Leadership
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. – Unknown