Tag Archives: Techniques

Data Dictionary

Maintaining a dictionary of data items is a very good idea for engagements of sufficiently wide scope and involving enough participants. This greatly simplifies and clarifies communication and mutual understanding among all participants, and should fall out of the work … Continue reading

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Financial Analysis

Financial analysis comprises a number of considerations and methods. They all begin by assigning costs to all germane capital, fixed, and variable items in the existing state and in the future state, and also considering expected revenues. Some of the … Continue reading

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Lessons Learned

I’ve touched on the idea of lessons learned a few times previously, but here I’d like to address the idea directly and explicitly, as part of the Tampa IIBA’s ongoing review of the BABOK, specifically the techniques listed in chapter … Continue reading

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Non-Functional Requirements Analysis

Functional requirements relate what a solution DOES. They describe components, behaviors, entities, actions, inputs, and outputs. They contain the details of the design the user sees and the mechanisms that generate results. Non-Functional requirements relate to what a system IS. … Continue reading

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Document Analysis

The BA technique of document analysis can be undertaken in many different contexts and phases of the effort. The major contexts for document analysis are: Manuals, specifications, and contracts can be reviewed as part of the discovery process to learn … Continue reading

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Brainstorming

I’ve touched on the idea of brainstorming previously, but today I wanted to address it specifically. The simplest way to describe brainstorming is that it is the act of generating as many options as possible, relevant to a particular situation, … Continue reading

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Process Analysis and Process Modeling

The vast majority of my career has involved process analysis and process modeling, usually but not always associated with computer simulation for various applications. I’ve always thought of the two activities as being essentially the same, but the BABOK distinguishes … Continue reading

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Methods of Observation

This past weekend my CBAP training course asked me to speak briefly on the technique of Observation. I reviewed the basic information in the BABoK itself and the training guide we’re using for the class, and I’ll refer to this … Continue reading

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Interface Analysis

I’m pursuing yet another certification, this time the IIBA‘s CBAP, for Certified Business Analysis Professional. I chose a 35-hour training course run as a series of interactive webinars over seven successive weekend days and during the second session this past … Continue reading

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