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Entries Tagged as 'Business Analysis'

CODiE Recognition for Today’s Business Analyst

Posted March 2nd, 2010 by Judith Zimmerman

We learned today that Requirements.net consortium member Blueprint has announced that its solution for requirements definition and visualization was honored as a finalist in the “Best Software Development Solution” category for the 2010 CODiE awards.
On the surface, this could be regarded as “just another good software company winning just another industry award.” However, it’s […]

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Series Whitepaper: Requirements Definition for Outsourced Teams

Posted April 20th, 2009 by Matt Morgan

Consortium member Blueprint (www.blueprintsys.com) has published a new whitepaper looking at the aspects of requirements definition when improving the efficiency and effectiveness of outsourced teams.
Here is the abstract:
In today’s economic environment, business organizations are demanding focused attention to fiscal discipline. Finance, marketing, sales, operations, and IT are all being measured by an increasingly tight […]

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New Series: The Global Business Analyst

Posted April 20th, 2009 by Matt Morgan

Today, the Requirements.net consortium is launching a new series entitled, The Global Business Analyst.
Members of the requirements.net consortium include BA Times (www.batimes.com), Cap Gemini (www.capgemini.com), Blueprint (www.blueprintsys.com), Centerline Partners (www.centerline-partners.com),  Zap Technologies (www.zap-t.com), Requirements Solutions Group (www.requirementsolutions.com),  RQNG (www.requirementsnetwork.com), HP Software (www.hp.com), Orasi Software (www.orasi.com), SkyIT Group (www.skyitgroup.com), and CorTechs (www.cortechs.com).
In this series, consortium members  […]

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Requirements Management from HP Quality Center

Posted March 23rd, 2009 by Keith Barrett

Hi All,
My name is Genefa Murphy and I am the Product Manager for HP’s Requirements Management  solution (part of HP Quality Center)!!!! Whilst this is my introductory entry on the requirements.net blog space – I have already started bogging via HP.com on topics such as:

 The value of RM
Wikis for RM
 Visualization of requirements

I hope […]

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Thursday: Requirements.net Exec Webinar with Steven Davis

Posted February 11th, 2009 by Matt Morgan

As a reminder, on Thursday,  the Requirements.net consortium kicks off our 2009 Executive Webinar series with a presentation from Blueprint and Orasi Software on Iterative Requirements Validation.
The webinar abstract is as follows:
  “Our BA practice has been re-organized, re-tooled, and is now a driving force in our company’s IT project plan”
– Director of BAs, Fortune […]

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Exclusive Podcast: Theresa Lanowitz on the Economy and IT Spending

Posted December 4th, 2008 by Matt Morgan

The Requirements.net series “The Economy and the Business Analyst” continues with a special edition Podcast interview with Theresa Lanowitz, CEO and Founder of voke Inc.
In this requirements.net exclusive podcast, Theresa discusses a rather unconventional report (titled: Fortune 500 Spending Required for IT Cost Savings” - get it here. ) which looks at […]

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Analyst: Spending is Required for IT Cost Savings

Posted November 20th, 2008 by Matt Morgan

CFOs, hold the cutbacks!  In the words of Indiana Jones, “You are digging for gold in the wrong place!”
A new report from voke (www.vokeinc.com) published by industry analyst’s Theresa Lanowitz and Lisa Dronzek have turned the whole “IT cutbacks” discussion on its ear.  This week, voke announced the “Fortune 500 Spending Required for IT Cost […]

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The Business Analyst Workbench Whitepaper

Posted August 27th, 2008 by Chris Gurney

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 Business Analyst Workbench Buyer’s Guide

Posted August 22nd, 2008 by Chris Gurney

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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91% of BAs Use Ineffective Tools to Define Requirements

Posted August 22nd, 2008 by Chris Gurney

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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