IN THIS ISSUE Featured articles showcased in this issue: > Why Don’t Use Cases Just Go Away?! > Lead Business Analyst – Are You Ready for the Challenge? > Data Quality and The Decision Model: Advice from Practitioners > Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models Webinars: Use Cases, Report Creation, Requirements Scoping, and more.... Also in this issue: > More Business Analyst Humor > Even more Resources for Business Analysts > New Interview Questions FEATURED ARTICLES Why Don’t Use Cases Just Go Away?! by Elizabeth Larson and Richard Larson, Watermark Learning Use case models have been around for decades. Long after Information Engineering was all the rage and through object-oriented analysis and design they hung around. They threatened to disappear when Agile methods gained popularity, but here they are. Discussed, dissected, blogged about—why don’t they just go away?! Read more...
Lead Business Analyst – Are You Ready for the Challenge? by Charlene Ceci & John Pobloske, Geneca While a Business Analyst Manager has primary responsibilities of developing a team of Business Analysts and potentially best practices within the organization, the Lead Business Analyst’s key responsibilities also include ensuring the success of the execution of the Information Technology project, specifically the Business Analysis portion. Read more...
Data Quality and The Decision Model: Advice from Practitioners by Steven Worsham & Ken von Halle Today, it is very common for organizations to use The Decision Model for managing DQ logic. The results are impressive and also deliver unique advantages over other approaches. In some cases, organizations represent DQ logic in The Decision Model as part of requirements deliverables. In other cases, organizations create DQ logic in TDM-compliant software which validates the logic against TDM principles, generates and executes test cases, and sometimes deploys to target technology. Read more... Creating and Managing Executable Decision Models by James Taylor & Dr. Jacob Feldman Decision requirements models allow business analyst, architects and decision designers to describe the decision-making they need. When these models are combined with business-friendly decision tables, non-technical domain experts can represent critical “know-how” accurately and precisely resulting in faster time to value and fewer errors... Read more... WEBINARS & EVENTS Webinar: Use Case – How to Extend Security Intelligence using Big Data Solutions ON DEMAND - Register Now, Cost: FREE Webinar: Business Requirements Scoping Techniques Feb 27, 2014 - Register Now, Cost: FREE Conference: Test Istanbul 2014 May 29-30, 2014 - Register Now, Sheraton Maslak Hotel, İstanbul, Turkey MORE FROM ModernAnalyst.com More Articles, Posts, and Templates > Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Back To Work We Go > Agile investigated - Back to basics and beyond > BPMN Quick Reference Guide - At a Glance > BABOK 2.0 Snapshots
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