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		<title>Check us out at the UT Career Expo and Enter to Win an iPad!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you graduating this year and want to get an exciting  job right after graduation? Check out Seilevel at the UT Career Expo this week and enter to win an Apple iPad! The Fall Career Expo will take place on:  Wednesday September 8, 2010 11:00 AM &#8211; 3:00 PM    The University of Texas at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Requirements Engineering Conference Is Just Around The Corner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Requirements Engineering Conference is just around the corner. Its being held in Sydney Australia September 27th- October 1st 2010. If you are attending this conference don&#8217;t miss out on the  Requirements Engineering Education and Training Workshop that is taking place September 28th. Do you want to broaden your skills? Learn new techniques?  This is the workshop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seilevel Message Board Is Back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Seilevel message board is back up! The message board was on a hiatus for awhile but we&#8217;ve cleaned it up and revamped it. We are happy to say its back up and better than ever. Do you have questions or comments on software requirements, requirements gathering, elicitation, conflicting requirements? Do you have questions about business objectives? Want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University of Texas Career Expo Sept 8th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seilevel will be at the University of Texas Career Expo on September 8th.  The expo is being held at the McCombs School of Business. We will be there talking to current business students about a career path as a Requirements Analyst/ Business Analyst. We are looking for people who: are excited to learn completely new subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Mistakes Business Analysts Should Make</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over my professional years, I have learned one really important life lesson: Every time I make a mistake, I learn a lot. So I was thinking about that in the context of being a BA. I believe that making mistakes is not such a bad thing and instead should be seen as a wonderful opportunity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Additional Ways to Prioritize Requirements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On our projects we are often asked to provide our requirements to the development teams with business prioritization.  I’ve been in meetings with my business stakeholders where we  have sat in front of a list of requirements and attempted to prioritize them one by one.  In my experience, this effort ended up prioritizing the list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being New 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a relatively new Requirements Analyst/ Business Analyst ( BA) and being new to the industry, I have been blessed with the opportunity to have mentors. Receiving direction from more experienced BA&#8217;s has definitely helped me find areas that I can improve on, while at the same time, finding my strengths and improving those too. Yet there still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://requirements.seilevel.com/blog/2010/08/being-new-101.html</link>
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		<title>Lessons for a Good Hair Cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I wrote about my Lessons from a Bad Haircut.  I’m please to say I finally have a lesson from a good haircut.  How did I finally get a good haircut?  It was what the stylist did after I explained what I wanted.  She drew a quick sketch.  It took about 15 seconds.  And, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://requirements.seilevel.com/blog/2010/08/lessons-for-a-good-hair-cut.html</link>
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		<title>Why You Should Use Requirements Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the typical response received when we suggest using a formal requirement management tool. “Doesn’t MS Word provide enough functionality  to manage requirements? We’ve been using it and it’s worked fine for us so far.”  It may be simple to jot ideas and start writing requirements in a Word document, or any other text [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://requirements.seilevel.com/blog/2010/08/why-you-should-use-requirements-tools.html</link>
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		<title>IT Black Ops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve worked on at least one project now and heard of several others where a super-secret development team works in parallel to solve the same business problem as the &#8220;official&#8221; IT project team.  A coworker of mine coined the term &#8220;IT Black Ops&#8221; to refer to these sorts of projects where the business, either out [...]]]></description>
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