Adding Value as an Agile Business Analyst

Dec 09, 2018

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Ekaterina Barabash

What is common between ‘agile’ methodologies and emotional intelligence (EQ)?

I address my thoughts to those who are in IT management for whom the terms such as quality of project implementation development and profitability indicators of the company are important. And it is also addressed to business analysts whose daily routine is the process of communication with Customer. A little about myself first. The last 8...

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Dan Tasker

Requirements in Context Part 1 - Just Know It!

I have long been a believer in the saying “Context is everything.” As a business analyst dealing with business users, understanding the context of the topic of discussion is essential. In thinking about what constitutes quality requirements it occurred to me that there are a number of additional contexts that play a role. Examples inclu...

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Alexey Kiselev

Acceptance Criteria. Bridge from your User Stories to Code and Test Cases

We are writing User Stories to fix the scope and describe - what our application should do when implemented.User Stories are great, because the are: Short, Defining Roles, A great connection of the requirement itself and a business need. User Story declared as a high level definition of the requirement, but it could be used to s...

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Templates & Aides

Templates & Aides: find and share business analysis templates as well as other useful aides (cheat sheets, posters, reference guides) in our Templates & Aides repository. Here are some examples:
* Requirements Template
* Use Case Template
* BPMN Cheat Sheet