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» FEATURED: Data Modeling: Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
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Data Modeling: Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram) This article describes the Entity Relationship Diagram that allows you to document the structure of a database in terms of persistent entities and the relationships between them.  The Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) provides a way of graphically representing the logical relationships between entities in order to create a database schema to p...

» FEATURED: Getting the Most out of Your Beta Launch
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Getting the Most out of Your Beta Launch Before an organization releases a new piece of software or web feature to all of its customers or the general public, it will generally offer a limited audience a chance to test drive the feature and offer their feedback. This is generally known as a Beta launch...

» Data Analysis for Business Analysts: Data Modeling in an Agile Team
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Data Analysis for  Business Analysts: Data  Modeling in an Agile Team One of the most significant characteristics of an Agile engagement is that technical and business professionals work collaboratively to grow the system. The team agrees upon the goals for the project, as well as the order in which the requirements will be addressed on each of the sprints... At least one team member should have the role of “data adv...

» FEATURED: 10 Ways to Hone Your Communication Skills as a Business Analyst
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10 Ways to Hone Your Communication Skills as a Business Analyst One of the soft skills that BABOK [1] specifies is communication, and for good reason—understanding and being properly understood is key to any profession, but especially business analysis, where details are king and unearthing them is meticulous work. And an analyst has multiple avenues of communication that affect her work.

» FEATURED: Selecting Appropriate Requirements Views
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Selecting Appropriate Requirements Views There is no single correct way to document specific requirements information. Every BA needs a rich tool kit of techniques at her disposal so that she can choose the most effective requirements view in each situation. In this article I offer some ideas about how to make that choice.

» FEATURED: An Overview of Enterprise Analysis
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An Overview of Enterprise Analysis Enterprise analysis (also known as strategic enterprise analysis or company analysis) is defined as focusing “on understanding the needs of the business as a whole, its strategic direction, and identifying initiatives that will allow a business to meet those strategic goals.” 

» FEATURED: Some Alternative Requirements Views
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Some Alternative Requirements Views An effective business analyst doesn’t just “write requirements.” Instead, the BA should think about the most appropriate way to represent requirements-related information in a given situation. Besides the traditional default of writing natural language statements, the BA should determine when a picture or some other representation would be valuable...

» FEATURED: Why Create Multiple Requirements Views?
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Why Create Multiple Requirements Views? If you create only one view of the requirements, you must believe it. You have no other choice. If you develop multiple views, though, you can compare them to look for disconnects that reveal errors and different interpretations. There’s an old saying, variously attributed to the Swedish Army, the Swiss Army, the Norwegian Boy Scouts, a Scottish pr...

» FEATURED: The Six Blind Men and the Requirements
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The Six Blind Men and the Requirements There’s an old fable about six blind men who encountered an elephant for the first time. Although they couldn’t see it, they wanted to learn what an elephant was like. Each of them touched a different part of the elephant.

» FEATURED: An Introduction to Data Flow Diagrams
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An Introduction to Data Flow Diagrams A data flow diagram (commonly abbreviated to DFD) shows what information is needed within a process, where it is stored, and how it moves through a system to accomplish an objective. As its name implies, a data flow diagram depicts the flow of data within a system.

» FEATURED: Business Rules: Basic Principles and Pattern Questions for Business Analysts
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Business Rules: Basic Principles and Pattern Questions for Business Analysts Before harvesting business rules, you should be aware of some basic principles and absorb them into your practices. First, all business rules are subject to change, including (and perhaps especially) business rules derived directly from business policies. The ability to change and redeploy business rules is essential to business agility.

» FEATURED: A Proposal for an Agile Development Testing V-Model
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A Proposal for an Agile Development Testing V-Model This article proposes a V-Model for agile development testing and invites feedback from the reader. The agile method used in this article is Scrum; the author assumes the reader is familiar with this solution development life cycle.

» FEATURED: Introducing RuleGuide™ - Business Decision and Rule Management
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Introducing RuleGuide™ - Business Decision and Rule Management RuleGuide is a tool that accelerates and improves the quality of business decision and rule capture, analysis and management. By providing an enterprise repository for business decisions, rules, and associated metadata, RuleGuide fosters ongoing collaboration and alignment ofthe business and IT teams.

» FEATURED: Classifying Decision Model Structures
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Classifying Decision Model Structures In this article we focus, not so much on the similarities among decision models, but on their differences. More than that, we explore the idea of classifying decision model structures based on differences in their logic. The decision model diagram is the first place to look for visible differences among decision models.  

» FEATURED: Systems Thinking: Understanding the Whole and Not Just the Parts
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Systems Thinking: Understanding the Whole and Not Just the Parts I was very intrigued with this concept when I read it in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK). This concept is so powerful and if used more in organizations can produce remarkable events; however, I have found that Systems Thinking can only be utilized to its fullest potential if the culture of the organization allows for that. However, ...
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