This blog provides information about and for the Business System Analyst role. There is information on Use Cases, UML, Business Requirements, tool tips, and career information.
This blog and website are owned by Wyyzzk, Inc. (http://www.wyyzzk.com), a company founded by Geri Schneider Winters and Jason P. Winters to provide materials and services for those in Software Engineering.
IEEE defines Software Engineering as the organization and management of very large projects. So we give presentations, contract, consult, train, and mentor in: Requirements Development and Management (especially Use Cases), Software Architecture, Software Development Process Engineering, Project Management, and Object Oriented Analysis and Design, as well as the supporting technologies of Unified Modeling Language, Rational Unified Process, Agile Development, Rational Rose, Rational RequisitePro, IBM Rational Software Architect and Software Modeler, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, and RavenFlow Scenario.
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Geri and Jason
Geri’s Story – or Why I Became a Business Analyst
My mother and father loved musicals. As a child, there were many nights I fell asleep listening to the sound tracks from shows such as Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Wiz. In school, I played the violin. Every year I played in the pit orchestra for my school’s musicals, other school’s musicals, and charity events.
In college I figured out how hard it is to make a living as a violinist. I discovered a love of computers and software, and hung up my violin to become a programmer. This may sound sad, but the story does not end there.
After college, I started working as a programmer in Silicon Valley and volunteering with local community theater groups. I volunteered so much that over time I learned every job connected with a musical theater production, including producing and directing. During this time, my career in software moved from programming into more people oriented jobs such as technical support, field engineer, trainer, process engineer, and software architect. In particular, I started working a lot with software requirements.
I see a lot of correlation between a software project and a musical. One major difference between a software project and a musical, is that a musical has a story that tells what the show is about. A software project needs to be described as well. It needs its own story that tells what the software project is about.
I am the Business Analyst on the team. I collect a lot of information and create the story of the project. Until the end of the project, I keep telling other people the story of the project (the stakeholders, sponsor, designers, and so on). I am the Storyteller.
