 | | | | | Business Analysts; The CEO's Army
By Jarett Hailes As the economy slowly recovers, businesses and governments continue to look at ways to maximize their organizational potential with the human capital they currently have. Over the years several management strategies have been presented to ensure consistent long-term performance (and outperformance). Methodologies such as Six-Sigma quantify results to identify opportunities for improvement and monitor subsequent performance. Others take a more qualitative approach and look to unleash the most important asset any organization has - its employees.
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Requirements Driven Test Management
By Emrah Yayici
According to the Standish Group's Chaos Report, 90% of IT projects are delivered late and 66% of them are not considered successful. Surveys show that more than 50% of the project failures can be attributed to problems stemming from Requirements Elicitation and Management and more than 20% are due to Ineffective Testing.
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 | | | | | Should Business Analysts Model Requirements?
by Elizabeth Larson During a recent client visit I encouraged the use of modeling as a way to uncover hidden requirements and expectations. One of my clients expressed her rather strong opinion that modeling requirements was not and should not be a part of business analysis work. Oh, she could accept the fact that uncovering gaps between the "as-is" and "to-be" using process models made some sense, but she was adamant that this gap analysis should be done by a business SME, not by a business analyst (BA). As to data modeling, well that was technical in nature and if done at all, she said, it should be done by the technical IT staff. Use cases were helpful to the testing staff, but were clearly technical and were not to be done by BAs. Prototyping? This should be done by developers-no question about that one!
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 | | | | | Defining Requirements for Business Intelligence Projects
 Date: Wednesday February 3, 2010
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST (New York, GMT-05:00)
Duration: Two hours
Cost: $89.99
PDUs: 2
CDU's towards CBAP recertification: 2 |
Conducting a Requirements Meeting Over the Internet
Date: Wednesday February 17, 2010
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST (New York, GMT-05:00)
Duration: Two hours
Cost: $89.99
PDUs: 2
CDU's towards CBAP recertification: 2 | | | | | | | |
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