IN THIS ISSUE Featured articles showcased in this issue: > The Product Backlog Board > Dreaming Of A Business Analyst Career: A Personal Journey From QA To BA > The Decision Model: Breaking Barriers in Real-World Projects > Managing Requirements from a BA or an Enterprise Architect perspective using BABOK and/or TOGAF > Webinar: Using Visio and SharePoint for Process Management: Practical Tips and Customer Examples > Webinar: Being Rational in an Accelerated World Also in this issue: > More Business Analyst Humor > Even more Resources for Business Analysts > New Interview Questions
FEATURED ARTICLES The Product Backlog Board by Roman Pichler, Pichler Consulting How come product owners and teams struggle to use the product backlog effectively? One of the reasons lies in the linear nature of a traditional product backlog: It is a list of "features, functions, technologies, enhancements, and bug fixes," as "Agile Software Development with Scrum" states. Such a list works well for creating a simple product. But it can be inappropriate for a more ambitious one. Read more...
Dreaming Of A Business Analyst Career: A Personal Journey From QA To BA by Lauren Elkins, IT BSA, ARUP Laboratories We BA's are occasionally asked, "What do you do?" I try to make a joke out of this innocent question by replying, "Well, what would YOU do with English and writing degrees? I'm a Business Analyst of course." People don’t laugh. It's not because they don't want to make fun of an English major, it's because they don't have a clue what a Business Analyst does. You can't laugh at a joke if you don't get the punch line. Read more...
The Decision Model: Breaking Barriers in Real-World Projects by Larry Goldberg & Barbara von Halle, KPI LLC The number of successes with The Decision Model is escalating. Organizations are using The Decision Model to solve a range of business challenges and opportunities including some we did not expect. Therefore, this month we summarize three real world projects to illustrate how organizations are using decision models and how quickly project teams are delivering them. Read more... Managing Requirements from a BA or an Enterprise Architect perspective using BABOK and/or TOGAF by Serge Thorn, CIO of Architecting the Enterprise Many Business Analysts are using the IIBA’s BABOK which contains information about a Requirements Management process, from identifying organizational situations that give cause to a project, through to starting the requirements gathering process, to delivering a solution to the business or a client. TOGAF 9 from an Enterprise Architecture viewpoint also provides some techniques to gather requirements to equally deliver business solutions. This article illustrates the two processes, defines the mapping between the two approaches and identifies gaps in each. Read more... WEBINARS Using Visio® 2010 and SharePoint® 2010 for Process Management: Practical Tips and Customer Examples Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Register Now, Cost: FREE Being Rational in an Accelerated World Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Register Now, Cost: FREE EVENTS The Business Analysis Conference Europe 2011 26-28 September 2011 Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London This conference provides an unparalleled networking opportunity for Business Analysts from across Europe and beyond. http://www.irmuk.co.uk/ba2011 MORE FROM ModernAnalyst.com More Articles of Interest > Crossing the BPM Chasm > From Mission Statement to Business Process > An Introduction to Requirements Traceability
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