This post is a continuation of a previous post found here. Changes Dave believes are coming with respect to agile-run projects and my own commentary on these: Requirements engineers make decisions, they are not just documenters. Expect to see that product owners are the BAs. They will less often be called systems analysts, and more [...]

I attended a keynote at RE’09 in Atlanta that I wanted to go back and post a summary of and my thoughts on. And just to be completely honest, this is a rarity. For whatever reason, I really tend not to get much value out of keynote talks – either they are too technical, the [...]

I attended a talk by folks from BluePrint and Lexis Nexis at BAWorld on Tuesday at BAWorld: Boston called “Requirements Definition for Agile Projects”. The first bit of the talk was just an intro to agile and why it is useful on the projects. The part that I found most interesting was from Kathleen McGoey [...]

I attended a talk by folks from BluePrint and LexisNexis at BAWorld on Tuesday. The first bit of the talk was just an intro to agile and why it is useful on the projects. The part that I found most interesting was from someone who owned business analysis on lawyers.com – she effectively gave a [...]

As part of our Live from BAWorld: Boston series, I just heard a talk from Karen McKay at Doreen Evans Associates (DEA). She discussed building a BA competency in your organization. Her talk was focused on the high-level need for such a model and what the components of it are. I think a next level [...]

As part of my “Live from BAWorld: Boston” series, I attended a talk Monday by Matthew Leach of Doreen Evan Associates called “Leveraging Multi-Level Use Cases for Testing and Other Ways to Obtain Greater ROI on your Business Analysis Investment”. His talk went into great depth about how you could use use cases on your [...]

Also at BAWorld: Boston, Monday I heard Barbara Carkenoard talk about “ROI? Measuring the Real Value of Business Analysis” and her learning objectives were: Learn to talk about the specific value of a strong business analysis discipline Consider business analysis metrics for use in your organization Understand why a financial ROI is not normally calculated [...]

This week I find myself at Project Summit & BAWorld: Boston for about a day and a half. This morning I presented our talk, “If you Build It, Will They Use It? Leveraging Business Objectives to Deliver Successful Projects”. One thing I like about the BAWorld symposiums is that they make the slides available electronically [...]

I am going to take it a little off the beaten path for this post and ask about some ‘non-functional’ work requirements you have. So I was wondering what you all like to do when you have to stay focused? Do you listen to classical? Work remotely from a coffee shop or home? Put a [...]