requirements gathering

This article explains why you should produce a business process model, what they are and how we can produce them.
Business process models are important for a number of reasons:

provides a business context for the project

assists in identifying requirements

establishes a shared understanding of end to end process(es) between all stakeholders across business units

reflects the business process [...]

I thought it might be time to blow my own trumpet again
Some of you will be new visitors to the site as you will have seen my Tip on Requirements Attributes that was submitted to the IIBA. Thanks for visiting, please have a look around and let me know what you like and [...]

This article is the first in a series on requirements prioritisation. It explores why it is critical to project success to prioritise requirements, why it can be unsuccessful and describes one technique to achieve consensus.
Why prioritise?
On most projects of reasonable complexity, there is a limited budget and the budget must be wisely targeted to maximise [...]

This article will introduce the workshop and will include where it came from, why it is used, the basic principles and the different styles.
In essence, the workshop enables a group of people to collaborate in achieving a common goal - hence, the rugby scrum is a good analogy although you shouldn’t expect to get this [...]

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 [...]

 
In this article, I’ll be discussing some other requirements gathering methods that complement use case modeling and should be used to ensure your requirements gathering goes swimmingly (see Use Cases - an Introduction for more on use case modeling).
In particular, I’ll be mentioning storyboards, wireframes and prototypes.
I’ll also cover what level of quality and detail you should [...]

I have been  pondering recently on the importance of adaptability for a business analyst.
Definition of adaptability
It seems to me that adaptability is a key skill of a business analyst because no two projects are alike. It’s not possible to apply a template approach to every project situation with which you are confronted.
However, I looked up synonyms for [...]