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TWSL Series 10: Permutations and Traceability
Today I gave this webinar for the Tom Woods School of Life Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.
BA Webinar Series 01: Requirements Traceability Matrices
Today I gave this webinar for the Tampa IIBA Lunch and Learn Series. The slides are here.
Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
One of my favorite tools to use during any project, but particularly for software projects, is the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM). I’ve discussed this in presentations I’ve given on the framework I use for performing business analysis (and project management … Continue reading
User Stories
The definition given in the BABOK is, “A user story represents a small, concise statement of functionality or quality needed to deliver value to a specific stakeholder.” This is a very general definition and is potentially different from a task … Continue reading
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Tagged BABOK, business analysis, Techniques
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Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria
Acceptance criteria and evaluation criteria can almost be considered as two separate considerations, but they are presented together in the BABOK and I can see why. The BABOK states that acceptance criteria are the basis for determining whether a solution … Continue reading
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Tagged BABOK, business analysis, requirements management, Techniques, Testing
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Why to Address a Problem in an Organized Way
When developing a solution or capability, it is usually good to make it as simple as possible — but no simpler. The key to walking the fine line between too simple and too complex (or too heavy or too expensive … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob's Analytic Framework, communication, problem-solving, teams
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Three Layers of Architecture, and Three Dimensions of Iterative Phase Loops
As I’ve been developing my engagement framework over the past few years, I have sometimes struggled to classify the exact phase in which certain activities take place. Or, more to the point, I have sometimes had difficulty contextualizing multiple different … Continue reading
The Requirements Life Cycle: Management and Reuse
Just as systems, products, and engagements have life cycles, requirements do as well. It’s easy to look at a requirements traceability matrix and imagine that all requirements spring magically anew from the ether during each engagement. Let’s look at some … Continue reading
Reviews
Reviews are about examining some output or artifact for quality and agreement. I primarily think of this process in terms of my framework, as shown in the figure below, but many contexts are valid. In my framework, review means building … Continue reading
Functional Decomposition
My first engineering job was as a process engineer in the paper industry, where I designed and analyzed large industrial systems that ran this… through this… to make this… We can break the system down (or build it up) like … Continue reading