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Tag Archives: Techniques
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
Business Model Canvas
Like the balanced scorecard technique I described yesterday, I view the business model canvas technique as a way to get analysts to look at organizations in a different way. It is used fairly commonly (though I had never seen nor … Continue reading
Balanced Scorecard
I have never explicitly used this technique, but I have certainly examined problems, systems, and opportunities from all the perspectives contained within it. This is true of many techniques described in the BABOK. I often note that every formalized technique … Continue reading
Concept Modeling
A concept model, or conceptual model, is an abstract representation of an organization, process, system, or product. It relates the nouns and verbs and other categorizations within and between elements. It can take any arbitrary form, in contrast with the … Continue reading
Survey or Questionnaire
Surveys and questionnaires are excellent tools for gathering data, opinions, needs, and observations from large groups of respondents in a relatively short time. They come in many forms, with individual questions being either open-ended, where respondents can provide any type … Continue reading
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Mind Mapping
A mind map is a particular type of diagram used for taking notes, organizing thoughts, and understanding hierarchies. Business analysts can use any type of diagram that aids understanding and communication between participants in any engagement. (My website is littered … Continue reading
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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
Data Modeling
From the BABOK: A data model describes the entities, classes or data objects relevant to a domain, the attributes that are used to describe them, and the relationships among them to provide a common set of semantics for analysis and … Continue reading
Prototyping
This BABOK technique involves creating something that allows investigation of one or more aspects of the solution being developed. This creation can be physical, in the case of mock-ups meant to illustrate a concept or explore ergonomics or test a … Continue reading
Scope Modeling
I think an argument can be made that this technique should more properly be called “scope determination” or “scope identification.” I also observe that determinations of scope happen during the conceptual modeling phase, when you discover what’s happening in an … Continue reading