Can one-hour thinking meeting be efficient? Review pros and cons, and recognize advantages of longer requirement analysis workshops.
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BA Mindset Video #5: Analysis Before Synthesis; Information Before Requirements
Requirements don't come from business - they come from business analysis. This next video episode deals with the myth of "gathering business requirements".We gather information from stakeholders, analyze it, discover, investigate, compare, research and analyze some more, and then synthesize…
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Ask WHAT, not HOW
How we see a subject depends on our perspective. Inevitably, our own experience takes precedence when we discuss any activity that we’ve personally engaged in. My experience of roller blading, travelling to Iceland, or bringing up children, may be nothing…
Requirements Don’t Come From Business: They Come From Business Analysis
BAs need to analyze the information from multiple sources, understand what the real problem is, and then convert this understanding into the requirements for a future solution.
Requirements Clinic: Analyzing the Results of Business Analysis
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: Completeness Consistency Clarity…
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Business Analysis Tools and Techniques
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…
Business Analysis Pitfalls: We Only Capture System Requirements
What is a requirement? Most definitions describe a requirement as a “condition or capability needed by a user to solve a problem or achieve an objective”. A condition or capability could be anything – a process step, a new template,…
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