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Lean Requirements Definition and Business Analysis Techniques
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Agile Business Analysis: Getting and Writing Lean Requirements
Lean / Agile Business Analysis: Writing BUSINESS Use Cases
Business Analysis: Data Flow Diagrams to Visualize Workflows
Functional AND Non-Functional Requirements – Simply Put!
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What Is Business Analysis for Information Technology (IT)
The course defines how business analysis is currently practiced. The authors provide insight into this fast-growing field by distinguishing strategic, tactical, and operational business analysis.
It provides surveys of what Business Analysts really do and what business analysis techniques people use most often when they are the one “wearing the BA hat”.
You will learn what “requirements” really are and what different types of requirements exist. Because many requirements define future information technology (IT) solutions, the authors share their experience on how Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, and Experimental (aka “Chaotic”) Software Development methodologies impact the business analysis responsibility.
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KnowledgeKnuggets™
An Overview of Business Analysis for Information Technology
An Introduction to Business Analysis and Why It Is Important to Organizations around the World
An Overview of Lean / Agile Business Analysis
Lean Business Analysis is a flexible response to change, a value increase using fewer resources, and waste reduction during requirements discovery
What Are IT or User Requirements?
A Look at Software Requirements including Business, Stakeholder, Solution, and Transition Requirements
An Introduction to Business Analysis Techniques
An Overview of the Most Widely Used Business Analysis Tools and Techniques
Business Analysis and System Development Methodologies (SDM)
An Overview of Software Development Approaches and Their Impact on Business Analysis Activities
Business Analysis and Agile Methodologies
Agile Software Development Approaches and Their Impact on Business Analysis Activities
Business Analysis and Iterative Methodologies
Iterative System Development Approaches and Their Impact on Business Analysis Activities
Business Analysis and Waterfall Methodologies
Structured System Development Approaches and Their Impact on Business Analysis Activities
How to Identify Stakeholders for IT Projects
Identifying All Stakeholders at the Beginning of Your Project Is a Best Practice for Reducing Scope Creep and Avoiding Missing Requirements
Agile Analysis – Maintaining a Questions and Answers Backlog
Keep Your Requirements Elicitation on Track by Managing Questions, Answers, and Assumptions in a Central Repository
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What Is a Use Case
Writing Use Cases to Define Interaction Requirements
How to Run Requirements Workshops (aka JAD/R)
Requirements Discovery or User Story Workshops Are a Fast-track Approach To Getting User Requirements from a Diverse Group of Stakeholders
Business Problems Drive Business Requirements (1)
Effective Information Technology Solutions Start with Business Problem Analysis, for Which You Need a List of Potential Problems
Problem Analysis Uncovers Business Requirements (2)
How to Craft Business Problem Statements That Enable Decision-makers To Approve Your Project and Ignite Your Team’s Creativity
Business Data Modeling - Getting Informational Requirements for IT
Business Data Models Let the Business Community Recognize What Data Is Important to Them and How Data Describes Their Business
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Business Analysis Using User Stories
How Well-formed User Stories Express Stakeholder Requirements for Agile And Traditional Projects
Keep Your User Story Simple
Rule 1 in How To Write Effective User Stories that Express Business Needs and Minimize Misunderstandings
A User Story Expresses WHAT, Not HOW!
Rule 2 in How To Write Effective User Stories That Express Business Needs and Minimize Misunderstandings
Writing User Stories that Are in Scope
Rule 3 in How To Write Effective User Stories that Express Business Needs and Minimize Misunderstandings
Avoid Ambiguity in Your User Story
Rule 4 in How To Write Effective User Stories that Express Business Needs and Minimize Misunderstandings
Non-Functional Requirements Add Value to User Stories
Rule 5 in How To Write Effective User Stories that Express Business Needs and Minimize Misunderstandings
Prioritize Your User Stories, Features, Non-functional Requirements or Other Backlog Items
Prioritizing User Stories or Requirements Is Essential to Focusing Your Limited Resources on the Most Important Requirements First
Lean Business Use Cases in an Agile World
Online Course: What Is Lean Business Analysis?
Business Process Analysis for Requirements Discovery
Analyzing Business Process Models to Uncover Workflow Problems and Identify Requirements for IT Solutions
Create a Context-Level Dataflow Diagram (DFD) to Visualize Project Scope
A “Level 0” Dataflow Diagram (a.k.a. Context Diagram, Business Process Model) Makes the Scope of Your Project Visible
How to Draw Dataflow Diagrams (DFD) for Business Analysis
Drawing a Picture of How a Business Process Creates and Consumes Data Identifies Critical Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
Create a Rigorous Physical Process Model as an Easy Start to a Data Flow Diagram
Jump-Starting Context Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Workflows, and Process Models by Visualizing Material and Data Movement within an Organization
How DFDs Combat Scope Creep and Mitigate Project Risks
How Creating and Using Data Flow Diagrams Can Save Your Agile or Traditional IT Projects
Exploding or Leveling Processes on a Dataflow Diagram (DFD)
How to Develop a Detail or Low Level Data Flow Diagram that Lets You Identify Issues and Discover Requirements for Change
How to Get Started Drawing a Detailed Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
Finding Lower-Level Processes as a Crucial First Step toward Creating a Detailed Dataflow Diagram
How to Analyze a DFD to Expose Missing Data Elements
Use the Power of a Data Flow Diagram to Identify Data Discrepancies, Inconsistencies, and Conflicts
How to Discover Missing Processes and Data
Balancing an Exploded Process with the Lower Level Dataflow Diagram Reveals Missing Components
How To Write Data and Process Specifications
Using a Data Flow Diagram to Define Process and Data Specs Provides the Level of Detail that Solution Providers Need
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