Entries from August 2008

Here’s the whitepaper we promised, titled The Business Analyst Workbench – Equipping and Empowering the Modern BA.  This paper goes into depth analyzing the roles of the BA, the set of possible requirements definition approaches that can be used, the phases of the requirements definition life-cycle, and the tools that a modern Business Analyst needs […]

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The success of any software development project is directly dependent on the definition of complete, high quality, accurate requirements and the responsibility for these typically falls on the shoulders of the Business Analyst.
To that end, the Requirements.net team created The Business Analyst Workbench Buyer’s Guide, to provide you with a set of criteria – features […]

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That’s just one interesting statistic that voke has uncovered in their completed report on “The Role of the Business Analyst”, summarizing in part the results of the Requirements.net survey.
Download it here.

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Analyst Study Reveals 91% of Business Analysts Use Ineffective Tools to Define Requirements ; Business Analyst Role Explored in Detail by voke in Latest Market Snapshot; Finds Market for Business Analyst Solutions One of the Fastest Growing in the Application Lifecycle
14 August 2008, 11:03 GMT, Business Wire [750 Words]
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Kevin Brennan has posted a Mind Map snapshot of the revised introduction to version two of the BABOK™ on the IIBA Blog. He’s asking for comments and feedback so take a look and let him know what you think. Here’s the link to the specific blog post:
http://blog.theiiba.org/2008/08/babok-v2-introduction.html

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This past April on Requirements Unplugged, we interviewed Mike Cottmeyer and Lee Henson with VersionOne regarding how an agile approach impacts the role of the analyst. As a follow-on to that, Mike and Lee have published a whitepaper titled “The Agile Business Analyst.” Download it here.

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You know that survey we’ve been running for a while? Well, Teresa Lanowitz of Voke will be presenting the results of the survey in an upcoming, free webinar on Thursday, August 21st entitled “Business Analysts Empowered: Optimize global IT project teams through a Requirements Lifecycle”:
Theresa will discuss never before seen findings of a four […]

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