A requirements clinic is a focused inspection of a set of business requirements, often led by an external facilitator or a third party. The goal is to assess stakeholder alignment on requirements and evaluate the requirements for: CompletenessConsistencyClarityContradictionsUndocumented assumptionsRequirements gaps…
Thank you to all my connections, friends, and business analysis community for your interest in my posts, articles, and webinars. I have connected with many smart people from all over the world in the last few months. As everyone learns…
After the Explain many times, many ways post, I’ve received a lot of feedback. In this post, I will follow-up on the most popular question: “Based on the different learning types and stakeholder needs, what business analysis methods or techniques…
The use case diagram is not dead. In fact, business people love it. It’s simple, clear and business-friendly. In has three self-explanatory elements – the boundary, the actors and the use cases. Without getting into specifics of relationships such as…
Will you make a good business analyst? Is this profession for you? Will you enjoy it? With more people changing careers multiple times, and with major changes in the job markets recently, these are important questions for any profession. If…
Conciseness of a model is just as important as clarity and consistency. A model is a simplified representation of something. By definition, it should only contain what is essential to the idea it is representing. Think of a map –…
Remember the three C’s of modelling? Clarity, Consistency, and Conciseness. After clarity, consistency is the next pillar of modelling. Model is only a simplified representation of something – a process, a concept, a problem, a solution. Consistency is critical to the…
