Archive for November 2008

I attended the November meeting of the IIBA on Wednesday of this week (26th). I have to admit that I was a little dubious as I have been to Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings of the British Computer Society (BCS) before and hadn’t found them very relevant or useful for business analysts. Apologies for the [...]

Requirements engineering is a term that covers a variety of methods and approaches which share the objective of improving the quality and delivery of requirements.
It includes:
requirements gathering
the initial identification and documentation of requirements
 
requirements management
tracing the requirements through to the completion of an IT development to verify their delivery.
This article is an introduction to requirements [...]

There are many ways of modeling requirements in IT development these days but one of the most popular approaches involves use cases.
Firstly, just to get the record straight, they are not called ‘user cases’ which is a mistake made by many an individual who comes across them for the first time. Also, they are pronounced [...]

OK, this site claims to help business analysts so a good place to start would be to explain what business analysis is all about.

In this article, you’ll find the following:
 

the analogy of business analyst as interpreter
 
bridging the gap between IT and the business
 
the importance of timing
 
problems with language
 
other responsibilities
 
other project [...]