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New BA Video Tips

Posted on June 13, 2011 by admin

http://www.youtube.com/user/Wyyzzk I have set up a video channel for Business Analyst tips on YouTube. There are 15 videos there at present including: 5 steps to better use cases – parts 1 and 2 Business rules versus Technical Constraints Use Stories … Continue reading →

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Example Use Cases

Posted on October 17, 2010 by admin

A lot of people are looking for example use cases. So I thought I’d make a short post telling a variety of places I offer example use cases that I have written. If you sign up for my free tip … Continue reading →

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New Articles at Resources for Business Analysts Site

Posted on March 2, 2010 by admin

We are up to 290 members now at www.ResourcesForBusinessAnalysts.com- very soon we’ll be over 300! I posted some articles on the site today that were in my email list or somewhere on the blog or somewhere on my hard drive … Continue reading →

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Tips for BAs: Use Cases Not All Things to All People

Posted on March 2, 2010 by admin

Author: Geri Schneider Winters An interesting question came up in another forum, and I would like to address it here because I think it is a common one. I am currently struggling introducing use cases into a large product development … Continue reading →

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Tips for BAs: New Paper – What Are Requirements

Posted on March 16, 2009 by admin

I wrote a new paper this weekend where I show the different kinds of stakeholders and requirements and their relationships. I would love your feedback on it. You can find the document here: What Are Requirements Geri

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Tips for Business Analysts: Information – Kind of vs Form of

Posted on April 12, 2008 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters When working on a project, you want to consider what kind of information you have, and what form is the best for documenting that information. These are two different things. A use case is a form … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Using Personas

Posted on February 2, 2008 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters Have you noticed the examples of requirements elicitation on my blog? In one case, I had a bit of a contest, using a game to elicit information. You can see this technique by looking in the … Continue reading →

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Tips for Business Analysts: Use Cases Are Not the Only Requirements

Posted on January 20, 2008 by geri

Author: Geri Schneider Winters With all the focus on Use Cases, it can be easy to forget that they are not the only kind of requirements. Use Cases are very good for some kinds of requirements, but really bad for … Continue reading →

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Teleseminar Questions and Recording

Posted on December 17, 2007 by geri

Thanks to everyone who attended the teleseminar this evening. There were a lot of great questions! How would you start writing out a test plan? I want to know the IT skills for a business analyst who is starting as … 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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