Business Analysis Blog
What Are Scenarios and Outlines Using (Gherkin) Given-When-Then Format
Lecture 28 of “Getting and Writing IT Requirements in a Lean and Agile World”
Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and BDD for the Business Analyst
Lecture 27 of “Getting and Writing IT Requirements in a Lean and Agile World”
Agile Requirements: Tips for Stakeholder Interactions and User Story Conversations
Lecture 11 of “Getting and Writing IT Requirements in a Lean and Agile World”
Using Cynefin to Prioritize and Analyze Features, User Stories, and Functional Requirements
Lecture 5 of “Getting and Writing IT Requirements in a Lean and Agile World”
Communicating Business Needs and Wants in Lean and Agile Environments
Lecture 4 of Getting and Writing IT Requirements in a Lean and Agile World – Business Analysis Techniques for Discovering Requirements, User Stories, Features, and Gherkin (Given-When-Then) Tests
Course Summary of Data Flow Diagrams – Simply Put!
Lecture 18 of the online course “Data Flow Diagrams – Process Modeling Techniques for Requirements Elicitation and Workflow Analysis”
Business Rules and External Constraints
Lecture 2 of "Exposing Functional AND Non-Functional Requirements - Simple Requirements Decomposition / Drill-Down Techniques" FREE Author: Tom and Angela Hathaway Prefer reading? Also available as book or eBook Constraints express absolute limits that any solution...
Ambiguity is Your Worst Enemy in Requirements Communication
Lecture 10 of “Writing Requirements for IT — Use Four Simple Rules to Improve the Quality of Your IT Requirements”
Business Processes, Data Flows, and Value Chains
Lecture 2 of the online course “Data Flow Diagrams – Process Modeling Techniques for Requirements Elicitation and Workflow Analysis”
The Value of Solution Requirements
Lecture 2 of “Exposing Functional AND Non-Functional Requirements – Simple Requirements Decomposition / Drill-Down Techniques”
We created the BA-EXPERTS Business Analysis blog to offer traditional, state-of-the-practice, and evolving tips, techniques and insights. Our all-consuming goal is to improve your business analysis outcomes whether your IT group speaks Agile, Waterfall, or Iterative SDM. Our target audience is “the one wearing the Business Analysis hat”, whether you have the title “Business Analyst” or not.
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Our objective is to keep each of these business analysis “insight” messages short and to the point with information that you can use (or, in some cases, be amused). Our pledge to you is that the contents of the posts will be more than just our opinions. We will base the majority of our articles on the results of extensive research by one of the best content researchers in the business, Angela Hathaway (who can find anything on the web, so if you lost your keys or your wallet…).
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