Author: JB
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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…
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It's Good to be a Business Analyst
The Business Analyst role is a good one – if you’re interested in climbing the rungs of the organizational ladder. At least that’s the…
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Design for Use and Reuse
One way IT factories can really hurt themselves and their companies is by underemphasizing, or not considering at all the notion that systems and…
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The REAL Development Lifecycle?
Ok, time for something light. This is funny stuff. Forget the phases or iterations – THIS is how the development lifecycle really plays out……
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More Analysis Paralysis
Breaking out of analysis paralysis doesn’t require you to lower your standards, or to aim lower than you would otherwise. It just requires some…
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Weaknesses of E-mail Communication
E-mail is a great communication medium, but it is not without its weaknesses.
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Advantages of E-mail Communication
Here are just a few benefits of communicating via the most popular application on the Internet.
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Curing Analysis Paralysis
You’ve poured your heart and soul into drafting the perfect requirements specification. You’ve checked, doubled checked, and triple checked every syllable of the document…
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The 6 "Be's" of Meeting Etiquette
A meeting can be very productive. A meeting can be a veritable nightmare. A lot depends on the professionalism of the participants. I’ve devised…
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The Cornell Method of Note-taking
Ok, so a lot of folks nowadays will type their meeting notes directly into their laptops, and that’s not a bad thing. It certainly…
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Open Source Data Modeling Tools – Worth a Look!
This post is to bring attention to some open source data (and general UML) modeling tools I think are worth a look.
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What's the value of good requirements?
Numerous professional studies have shown that poorly understood software requirements are the number one cause of schedule and budget overruns and ultimately project failure.…
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Business Analyst Job Description
So, what exactly is a Business Analyst? What is the role of the Analyst in the software development lifecycle? If you don’t want to…
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Functional Specs: Don't write them??
“Functional specifications documents lead to an illusion of agreement. A bunch of people agreeing on paragraphs of text is not real agreement. Everyone is…
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Great Software Engineering Proverbs
Lots of software engineering quotes and maxims. Some of them hurt to laugh at because they’re so true, some are classics, and some are…