You Don’t Need ADD to Be a Business Analyst, but It Helps
Buy at Zazzle A lot of people seem to think that the always-on Internet has a detrimental effect for those of us who suffer Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). I was officially diagnosed with ADD at the age of 49 but I had it all my life. Wellllll . . ., maybe not ALL...My Awakening: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Not Replace Us
Mouse pad - buy at Zazzle KRYPTOS: The Database that Programmed Itself Many years ago (in the pre-PC era), I designed and developed a self-learning program called KRYPTOS. Without going into killer detail, KRYPTOS was a program that stored its own source code in a...Business Analysis is a Corporate Colonoscopy
Buy at Zazzle I called a Subject Matter Expert recently to schedule a meeting to discuss her business requirements for a new product. She replied that she was about as excited about that meeting as she was about scheduling an invasive, minor medical procedure she...Getting to Lean Requirements – a Preamble
How Do You Decide? Requirements are fundamentally a tool for simplifying future decisions. They pose either hard (“must have”) or soft (“might have”) limits on future decisions that you or someone else has to make. Anytime you want to build (or...A Proof of Concept: Business Analysis Techniques Work – Part 3 and Final
… continued from Part 2 Business Analysis Techniques Applied to Real Life When we arrived in Tampa, we followed a time-honored approach to assessing a potential new home (one lesson learned from 63 moves, by the way) by renting a house with reasonable access to both...A Proof of Concept: Business Analysis Techniques Work – Part 2
… continued from part 1: Applied Business Analysis Technique – Prioritizing Your Requirements The only unanswered question was to where. The methodology we were following indicated that we should first define our requirements for where we wanted to live, so we...A Proof of Concept: Business Analysis Techniques Work – Part 1
Business Analysis Techniques Applied to Real Life I recently posted a blog in which I proposed that business analysis techniques could benefit anyone, in their private as well as their professional life. I wrote the post in my typical, rather abstract writing style...Do Your User Requirements Suffer from GIGO?
I recently recognized that we who wear the Business Analysis hat are actually in the garbage business. This may sound controversial on the face of it, but let me explain. Early pioneers of information technology experienced an obvious epiphany when they expressed the...Lead and Contribute to Collaborative Meetings and Workshops
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