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Entries from July 2008

How Would you Define Business Analysis?

Posted July 24th, 2008 by Chris Gurney

Kevin Brennan of the IIBA has started a Business Analysis page on Google’s just-launched Knol, a competitor to Wikipedia. In case you’re curious, here’s what Wikipedia contributors had to say about business analysis.

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Selecting Agile or Waterfall (ie: Classic) Methodologies

Posted July 18th, 2008 by Matt Morgan

Jonathan Babcock has written an interesting article about the factors behind selecting Agile or Classic PM/BA methodologies. His article includes a chart which compares the two methodologies in a two-by-two matrix which looks at the type of organization contrasted against the top of projects and which methodology makes the most sense.
An excerpt from the conclusion:

Obviously, […]

Understanding Legacy Applications by Reverse-Engineering Requirements

Posted July 10th, 2008 by Chris Gurney

Blueprint’s own VP of Products, Tony Higgins, has written a piece for SearchSoftwareQuality about how to maintain and enhance legacy applications, effectively by reverse-engineering their requirements:
The skills of a forensic detective are required to gain an understanding of a legacy application’s implementation and its purpose. This understanding is essential to reducing risk and to making […]

Requirements Unplugged: BA Market Study

Posted July 2nd, 2008 by Keith Barrett

In this week’s episode we sit down with Theresa Lanowitz from Voke, Inc. and discuss some of the surprising results emerging from the Business Analysis market study currently being conducted. We discuss the “why” and “how” of the study and then turn our attention to what the study is telling us. We dig into how […]