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...
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 work....
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...
Over the course of my career, I have always been intrigued by leaders who promote a specific methodology or tool or process as THE RIGHT WAY to deliver solutions. They dispense mandates and proclamations to promote their all-or-nothing, purist approach to methodology....
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...
