Archive for January 2009

I’ve moved the web site from wordpress.com to hosting the site myself which gives me much more control.
I can control all aspects of the site and the improvements include:

a better Wordpress theme  with much greater control (thanks Visionary)

ability to make article and site suggestions (or vote on them) - look on the right hand side

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This article explores stakeholder analysis. This covers the process whereby you identify all the stakeholders for your project and detemine their relationship to the project.
I was reminded of this in a recent project where I was delaing with stakeholders in multiple countries, multiple business units in each location and varying levels of knowledge and interest [...]

I was attending a workshop recently which reminded me of one of the key skills of the good business analyst. This is the art of listening.
In this workshop, there were many stakeholders and many experts with either business or technical expertise. The stakeholders attending were from a variety of different European countries so it was [...]

This article will define a candidate use case.  It will identify the resources you can use as the source material to identify your use cases.  It will also explain what techniques you can apply to generate source material. Finally it will explain how you can validate your candidate use cases.
 
Definition
A candidate use case is nothing [...]