Tag: Specification
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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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More on Separating Rules from Use Cases
Keeping business rules out of the flow of events makes a use case easier to maintain and reuse.
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Use Case Basics: Keeping it Simple
A few simple tips for identifying and documenting use cases.
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Could requirements analysis be automated?
Could systems and software be used to take the place of the requirements analyst?
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Structured Analysis & Big, Thick Documents
Great book on modeling & systems analysis and yet another critique of “big, thick documents.”
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Patterns and the Evolving Business Analyst
Let’s focus on what I consider the capstone to development and “evolution” as an analyst; the ability to learn, recognize and apply patterns.
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Bright Idea on Requirement Character Limits?
Adam Feldman, blogging from Bright Green Projects’ “Bright Ideas” blog poses a fun and interesting question. Twitter limits entries to 140 characters. Should we…
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Google Wave for Business Analysis
The social web is abuzz with news on the upcoming Google offering, Google Wave.
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Did I Really Write That?
As I was scanning through some of my old documents, I found that I wasn’t that thrilled with a lot of my older work.…
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Analysis Model Meme
Craig Brown, who runs the fabulous project management/business analysis blog Better Projects made a call for participation to various bloggers in that niche to…
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Use Cases or User Stories? Read Up!
There have been some really interesting articles in recent days and weeks that have been comparing use cases and user stories, and highlighting the…
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Use Case Basics: Distinguishing Between Exception and Alternative Paths
A while back I was involved in a discussion during which someone commented that because exceptions are really just alternatives to the main success…
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Vision Statement Form and Function
Form and function of the product vision statement.
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How hard could it be to design the stop sign?
I recently stumbled upon this video, got a kick out of it and thoughts I’d share. It is basically a video parody for the…