IN THIS ISSUE Featured articles showcased in this issue: > Advancing your career: applying BA skills to BPM field > Data Modeling—Just Don’t Show Me Any Crow’s Feet! > Managing the Two Sides of Decision Modeling: Science and Art > Specifying Quality Requirements With Planguage Webinar: Stand Up and Deliver Great Product with Collaborative Requirements Webinar: Own the Collaboration Circle to Keep Future Projects on Track Also in this issue: > More Business Analyst Humor > Even more Resources for Business Analysts > New Interview Questions FEATURED ARTICLES Advancing your career: Applying BA skills to BPM field by Igor Arkhipov, CBAP Many BAs (especially the most experienced ones) should be familiar with processes... Let us try to reveal, how BA skills are applicable to BPM and which steps a BA should take to transfer their knowledge to a state sufficient to fully enter the BPM sphere. Read more...
Data Modeling—Just Don’t Show Me Any Crow's Feet! by Elizabeth Larson and Richard Larson, Watermark Learning Visual models don’t have to be complicated. Unless your organization uses formal UML or BPMN standards, focus on learning to create simple visual models. In this article, we’ll explore 3 simple visual models that a new business analyst should be skilled in creating because they add a lot of value to projects and generally improve your requirements documentation. Read more...
Managing the Two Sides of Decision Modeling: Science and Art by Barbara von Halle, Knowledge Partners International, LLC In the real world, good decision modeling is always a balance between science and art. The science is systematic decomposition of a structure (of data or logic) into a set of smaller structures based on the definitions of successive normal forms. The art, on the other hand, is a general decomposition into a set of smaller structures based on factors not related to detecting and correcting normalization errors. Read more... Specifying Quality Requirements With Planguage by Karl Wiegers & Joy Beatty How often has a customer asked you to write software that is user-friendly, robust, fast, or secure? No one will argue that those are worthy goals that everyone wants in their software products. However, they are terrible requirements. They give you no idea of just what “user-friendly” means, or how to tell if you’ve achieved the desired characteristics that mean “user-friendly” to a particular customer. Read more... WEBINARS & EVENTS WEBINAR: Stand Up and Deliver Great Product with Collaborative Requirements Jun 26, 2014 - Register Now, Cost: FREE WEBINAR: Own the Collaboration Circle to Keep Future Projects on Track Aug 20, 2014 - Register Now, Cost: FREE Conference: Business Process Management Europe Jun 16-18, 2014 - Register Now, London MORE FROM ModernAnalyst.com More Articles, Posts, and Templates > Come to me with problems, not solutions > How Do I Become A Business Analyst? > 3 Tips for Obtaining Requirements Sign-off > Block Diagram Reference Sheet
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