To get the working software you need and want, you need to express who you are, what you want, why you want it, and how you will test whether you get it.

Benefits and purpose of Conditions of Satisfaction in User Stories

Lean and Agile follow two important concepts – Incremental and Iterative. Incremental product development means building something piece by piece.

Lean Business Analysis is a flexible response to change, a value increase using fewer resources, and waste reduction during requirements discovery

How to Discover Scenarios, Outlines and Examples Using Decision Tables and Use Cases

IT BAs Need to Facilitate User Story Workshops, Requirements Meetings, and 3-Amigo Conversations

Thinking Lean and Agile Requirements and User Stories Expands Your Skillset

8 critical communication skills to conduct a requirements elicitation interview, a 3-amigos conversation, or a Requirements Workshop

This video explores different types of personalities that can stand in the way of a successful outcome and give you some tips on how to manage them.

This video exposes the importance of creative collaboration in defining proposed applications or products.

Collaboration and facilitation are critical social skills for productive teamwork whether you lead the team or participate.

Facilitation Skills Are Vital for Any Professional Meeting

Writing Use Cases to Define Interaction Requirements

What Components of Digital Transformation Affect Business Analysts?

How Do Big Data, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence Affect Business Analysts?

Define purpose, user goals, business objectives, and target audience for engaging lead generation, product sales, and engagement bots

Using a decision tree, draft a chatbot structure and chatbot paths including user choices, decision points, and outcomes while following the lean principles

Use the most intuitive chatbot builder to create website bots, conversational apps / website interfaces, Facebook bots, and WhatsApp bots

Are Directed (aka Rule-based) or AI (aka NLP)-based Chatbots Best for Your Situation?

You never design a casual conversation. Why should you put in the work to design chatbot conversations?

Analyzing Business Process Models to Uncover Workflow Problems and Identify Requirements for IT Solutions

A “Level 0” Dataflow Diagram (a.k.a. Context Diagram, Business Process Model) Makes the Scope of Your Project Visible

Drawing a Picture of How a Business Process Creates and Consumes Data Identifies Critical Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

Jump-Starting Context Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Workflows, and Process Models by Visualizing Material and Data Movement within an Organization

How Creating and Using Data Flow Diagrams Can Save Your Agile or Traditional IT Projects

How to Develop a Detail or Low Level Data Flow Diagram that Lets You Identify Issues and Discover Requirements for Change

Finding Lower-Level Processes as a Crucial First Step toward Creating a Detailed Dataflow Diagram

Use the Power of a Data Flow Diagram to Identify Data Discrepancies, Inconsistencies, and Conflicts

Balancing an Exploded Process with the Lower Level Dataflow Diagram Reveals Missing Components

Using a Data Flow Diagram to Define Process and Data Specs Provides the Level of Detail that Solution Providers Need

A Look at Software Requirements including Business, Stakeholder, Solution, and Transition Requirements

An Overview of the Most Widely Used Business Analysis Tools and Techniques

An Overview of Software Development Approaches and Their Impact on Business Analysis Activities

Agile Software Development Approaches and Their Impact on Business Analysis Activities

Iterative System Development Approaches and Their Impact on Business Analysis Activities

Structured System Development Approaches and Their Impact on Business Analysis Activities

Requirements Discovery or User Story Workshops Are a Fast-track Approach To Getting User Requirements from a Diverse Group of Stakeholders

Identifying All Stakeholders at the Beginning of Your Project Is a Best Practice for Reducing Scope Creep and Avoiding Missing Requirements

Keep Your Requirements Elicitation on Track by Managing Questions, Answers, and Assumptions in a Central Repository

Effective Information Technology Solutions Start with Business Problem Analysis, for Which You Need a List of Potential Problems

How to Craft Business Problem Statements That Enable Decision-makers To Approve Your Project and Ignite Your Team’s Creativity

Business Data Models Let the Business Community Recognize What Data Is Important to Them and How Data Describes Their Business

How Well-formed User Stories Express Stakeholder Requirements for Agile And Traditional Projects

Prioritizing User Stories or Requirements Is Essential to Focusing Your Limited Resources on the Most Important Requirements First

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