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 [...] Read more »
Requirements Engineering – an Introduction
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 [...] Read more »
Use Cases – an Introduction
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 [...] Read more »
What is business analysis?
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 [...] Read more »
