BAs and PMs use hundreds of tools and techniques to boost the quality of their requirements practices. From simple to complex, things like brainstorming, user interviews, traceability maps, context diagrams, and detailed data models help us gather information needed...
Pictures are an important part of BA work. Whether you call it modeling or diagraming or mapping or drawing, the techniques BAs use to turn processes, relationships, ideas and tasks into pictures, remains a valuable technique for nearly every phase of project...
As I tweet my latest BA adventures, I ask Siri to find the best restaurants near my hotel, Skype with friends in Mexico, and order my favorite bottles of Napa Valley wine on Amazon, I can’t help but be amazed by how much technology has saturated my life in the last 15...
When I think of collaborative and innovative project meetings, the picture on the top is what floats into my mind. I see people standing in small groups. I see everyone focused, engaged and contributing. I see whiteboards, flip charts, drawings and sticky notes. But...
Painful! Definitely! The idea of sitting through a requirement workshop via teleconference seems like torture. Virtual requirements meetings tend to bottleneck our ability to effectively collaborate. Attendees and facilitators: dread the dead air and the anonymous...
So, here’s the scenario: Your organization wants to purchase packaged software to support a key business function. Your team thoroughly evaluates several products and chooses the best fit. During discussions with the vendor, you discover they “use Agile.” This is...
