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In my view, the most powerful quality practice available to the software industry today is inspection of requirements documentation. A peer review is an activity in which someone other than the author of a work product examines that product to find defects and improvement opportunities. Read More

There is a direct link between business rules and business events – one not fully understood by many Business Analysts. What is that link and why is it so important? This discussion raises a very big question about how your current requirements approach addresses business rules. Can you answer that Read More

A great approach under the right circumstances, agile is not a universal solution for successfully completing a software project. Some projects are simply not compatible with most agile practices. For such projects, NANW has been driving results in terms of project and rework costs, integration tim Read More

The language of systems is no different; No, it is not C++, Java, COBOL, etc., but rather simple English (or whatever your native language happens to be). In the past I have gone into length about the differences between Systems and Software, the two are simply not synonymous. Whereas systems inclu Read More

When ModernAnalyst asked me to write an article on Agile Data Modeling, I suggested that Scott Ambler would be the best person to write an article on Agile Data, but he was already scheduled to write for the issue! So, I spent some time at Enterprise Data World, a conference held in Tampa, Florida, Read More

When we first look at data fields on a business document, they appear complex. However once we analyze and understand them, they become simple. This is one of the purposes for a technique called normalization – to understand data fields and their relationships. This article starts with a challenge Read More

How do business rules fit with requirements? What role should business rules play in business analysis? Do business rules offer something to agile projects? This column, the first in a series of three, explains the deep insights offered by the Business Rules Manifesto on these questions. Already re Read More

How do business rules relate to business processes? How do business rules support business agility and migration to new business platforms? What does re-use of business rules really mean? This column, the second in a series of three (here's the first), explains the deep insights offered by the Busi Read More

This month’s column is not a debate about decision table theory versus decision model theory. Instead, it focuses on current practices for decision tables and those of The Decision Model. It covers (1) Four Benefits of Decision Tables (2) Decision Tables in Practice (3) The Decision Model in Practi Read More

Elicitation is a fundamental business analyst skill and is used by BAs and non-BAs alike to:
• Gain clarity on what’s expected from a project assignment;
• Understand an existing business process or system; or
• Create a shared understanding of the problem to be solved.
You can even use elicita Read More