Resources for Business Analysts

Hey Geri!

What a great idea! It didn’t take me too long to come up with something because I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

I did remembering the future. Here goes:

I am really happy we bought the Smart Pretty Printer for Use Cases product. It made the job of producing good use cases so much easier. I no longer had to hound my business analysts to use active verbs, use numbered lists, or put sentences in a subject predicate object format. We just ran the smart pretty printer over the text of the use case, and it did its best to format the use case. Every sentence was numbered, compound sentences were broken in two, verbs were changed to active form, and sentences were rearranged into subject predicate object structure. Anything the tool could not figure out was highlighted for a BA to review and fix. This made the work of writing use cases so much faster and less stressful. It gave us consistent formatting for all the use cases which made the reviews go faster. And I got to spend my time doing my job rather than telling everyone else that their use cases were still wrong. This has made the work environment so much less stressful for all of us, and gained us some extra time in the project schedule. I can go and enjoy my Thanksgiving holiday with no worries.

Best!

Laurie