Author: Anthony Chen

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RE ’06

Joy and I are at the 14th annual Requirements Engineering conference in Minneapolis. Over the next 3 days we will report on the sessions which represent the state of the

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Good news for BA’s

In a recent article in CIO Insight 38% of CIO’s of large companies ($1B+) responded indicating that they would be increasing the number of business analysts. Read the article and

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Agile… Again

Some people have pointed out that the reason I don’t like agile methods is because I am trying to sell services which depend on “traditional” requirements. The reason I like

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Where is the value?

On a project that I worked on a few years ago, we were building a system for managing discounts and promotions on an ecommerce website for a Fortune 500 retailer.

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Legacy Migrations

We recently finished a project fully documenting a very large existing system. The ecosystem was made of about 30 applications working together and was obviously very complex. This is not

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The Magic of 7-9

If you recall from psychology 101, most people can only hold 7-9 items in their short term memory. To learn more pieces of information, you need to transfer those items

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JAD Sessions Part 2 – Roles

JAD Session Part 1 is here. JAD Sessions have clearly defined participant roles. Each person has a critical part to play to make the session successful. Because of the short

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JAD Sessions Part 1 – The Need

A few years ago Joint Application Design (JAD) was all the rage, however lately I have heard nary a peep from the JAD front until recently. As a result of

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People, Systems and Data analysis

When looking at an existing application ecosystem for the first time, whether for an upgrade to the functionality or for a complete system migration, it is sometimes difficult to know

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Product Management

Offshore Development Part 1

Your company has decided to take the leap and begin migrating some of your development offshore. As a business analyst/product manager, I have good news and bad news for you.

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Yahoo releases “design” patterns

We have recently had a number of discussions on the messageboard about requirements patterns. The concept comes from the software design world which uses design patterns to save significant time

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