http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress Helping you create a Successful Career as a Business Analyst Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:02:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thank you to all my readers, your questions, and emails of encouragement. Your feedback is what keeps this blog going :-) Jason and I are spending the holidays with my family, and enjoying the warmth and love of the family circle, and the loving thoughts we have received in email and ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/happy-holidays/ Author: Geri Schneider Winters I recently received email from OMG (Object Management Group) that they now have a certification for Business Process Modeling. Alert reader Igor Nedeljkovic wrote to ask about it, so I thought this would be a good topic for an article. The OMG has release three standards in ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/tips-for-business-analysts-business-process-modeling/ Today is a much anticipated election day across the USA. If you are a US citizen and registered to vote, I encourage you to do so. You might think, my one vote does not matter. But of course it does!! Polls are predicting that 65% of registered voters will vote today. It ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/election-day-in-the-usa/ I was in Orlando for the Rational Software Development Conference June 1-4. This is a great place for me to connect with old friends and to find out what direction IBM is taking Rational. The focus this year was on teams - to be successful we have to collaborate globally. The big ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/rsdc-followup/ No tip today. I know it has been quite a while! My excuse is that I am working in a full-time contract during the day, doing Wyyzzk management tasks in the evenings, and writing a book on the weekends. I am working on a book for all of you. The ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/random-musings-book-schedule-graduation-and-rsdc/ 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 of documentation that can be used for a variety of purposes. ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/tips-for-business-analysts-information-kind-of-vs-form-of/ Author: Geri Schneider Winters As Business Analysts, our job goes far beyond being a note-taker, in other words listening to people talk, writing down what they say and calling it requirements. Notice that the term Business Analyst implies that we analyze. We need to analyze requirements and information and that is ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/tips-for-business-analysts-what-is-analysis/ 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 category Online Game on the blog. Then I had a survey ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/tips-for-business-analysts-using-personas/ 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 other kinds of requirements. One of our challenges as Business ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/tips-for-business-analysts-use-cases-are-not-the-only-requirements/ I am working on my website here at http://www.writingusecases.com for 2008. Because your input is important to me, I have created a short survey for you. If you have not taken the survey yet, there is still time! I am getting really interesting feedback. You can see the early results here: Click ... http://www.writingusecases.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/still-time-for-your-feedback/