Tools & Techniques

Tools & Techniques

You know there is a long list of skills and techniques you should master as a business analyst. But where should you start to get an immediate boost in your productivity? Discover here why some techniques are particularly powerful. Read just the high level introduction or dig into some more detail. You’ll find articles on process modeling, use cases, peer reviews, prioritizing requirements and many more!

Use Cases – the use case narrative

This article describes the structure of a use case in some depth and introduces other important use case concepts. Use case narrative In Use Cases – an Introduction, it was explained how the use case, in essence, describes the interaction between an actor (or category of users) to achieve a goal of observable value. The [...] Read more »

Non-functional requirements

There is some dispute regarding the use of the term non functional requirements and whether it is the correct term. However, it is in common use and serves a recognised purpose. In this article it is used to describe general characteristics and properties that are required. They are non-functional in the sense that they don’t [...] 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 »