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Requirements Management and Agile-like Program Management
This is post five of five that shares learning and insight gained during a recent consulting experience. Today’s lesson straddles the line between requirements management (generally considered the responsibility of a business analyst or solution architect) and [...]
Requirements via Tables
This is post four of five that shares learning and insight gained during a recent consulting experience. If you read post two of this set, you will recall I mentioned that I like to use tables to [...]
Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
“BA as Translator” This is post three of five that shares learning and insight gained during a recent consulting experience. There are generally two types of requirements 1) Functional: describes WHAT the system/process does – the processes, [...]
Use Cases and Functional Decomposition and More, Oh My!
This is post two of five that shares learning and insight gained during a recent consulting experience. If you read post one of this set, you will recall that I started work with a team that was [...]
Know your Stuff and then Improvise
This is post one of five that shares learning and insight gained during a recent consulting experience. I started work with a new team that was struggling to understand a small set of requirements. They said they [...]
Experiences from the Trenches
Recently, I started work with a new team where I was the most experienced Business Analyst in a team of six. I coached and guided the new BAs so that they could feel more comfortable in their [...]