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Keeping Your Brain Active and Healthy

Posted on July 26, 2007 by geri

I like to take a class every so often to learn new things and keep my brain active. July 9-15 I took a class for business owners to learn ways to improve my business. It was listed as an “intensive” … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Requirements in Complex Systems

Posted on July 24, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Some of you may be working on systems with many complex relationships between the parts. These complex systems may be described as a system of systems, or may be described as a product line, or perhaps … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Alternatives of Alternatives

Posted on July 16, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Another great question came from Adesh Sharma about whether or not he could write alternatives to alternatives in use cases. There is no actual standard for the formatting of a use case, just guidelines and best … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Use Cases and Reports

Posted on July 9, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters I get my best ideas for these tips from you, my readers. This tip is a response to a question from Pete McNally on how to document requirements for reports and whether or not those requirements … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Getting Started as a Business Analyst

Posted on July 2, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Many people write to me to ask how they can get started as a Business Analyst. Here are my thoughts on what you can do to get started in that career. An Analyst (Business or System) … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Estimating Requirements Gathering

Posted on June 24, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Alan Thompson wrote recently to ask, “How do we do a better job of estimating how long it will take to gather requirements?” This is a question that often comes up, so I want to share … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Managing Requirement Changes

Posted on June 7, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Almost every project will have to deal with requirements that change. I can imagine some maintenance type projects that are so well defined (fix this list of bugs) that there are no requirements changes for the … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Eliciting the Reason for the Project

Posted on May 16, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Any project that is started is started for a reason. There is some problem to be solved, or some opportunity to be met or a challenge to overcome. No matter how you word it, there is … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Alternative Flows of Events

Posted on May 8, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters When you find an alternative to a use case basic flow, you have two different ways to handle it. One way is to put the alternative in the steps of the basic flow. That way of … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Good Requirements

Posted on April 24, 2007 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Consider all the different kinds of requirements you write – Use Cases, Business Rules, Security, Database, Performance, Usability, Reliability, Regulatory, “shall” requirements. Good requirements are well-defined. How can you determine if your requirements are well defined? … Continue reading →

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