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New Articles at Resources for Business Analysts Site

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

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 Business Analysts: Use Cases Are Not the Only Requirements

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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Tips for Business Analysts: Alternatives of Alternatives

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

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: Alternative Flows of Events

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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