Product Management
Happy Agile Valentines Day!
Roses are red Violets are blue We’re going agile, How about you? It’s 6 weeks into the year and I know at least a handful of you are working for
February 12, 2015
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Author: Joy Beatty
Product Management
Isn’t Santa really just a Product Manager?
I used to do some fun holiday jingles requirements-style. I fell out of habit with it a few years ago, but luckily they are timeless and can just be reused!
December 23, 2014
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Product Management
Revealing Invisible Requirements
This blog post was written with Karl Wiegers based on our Software Requirements, 3rd Edition book. No matter how thorough a job you do on requirements elicitation, there is no way
December 11, 2014
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Product Management
Business Analyst vs Project Manager
I seem to run into this question a lot recently “What’s the ideal relationship between a Business Analyst and Project Manager role?” so I thought I’d address it here. First
December 2, 2014
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General Articles
Big data and analytics – Interesting tidbits for business analysts and product managers
I’m at Strata+Hadoop World for the first time as part of the data driven business day tutorial, and I got to present on requirements analytics. But this whole day is awesome,
October 15, 2014
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General Articles
Stop Being Difficult! How to Deal with Passive Aggressive Stakeholders
Talking to a stakeholder, you hear “Sure. Ok.” but you sense that wasn’t what the stakeholder was thinking. That’s because you are probably dealing with a difficult stakeholder — one
September 2, 2014
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Product Management
Business Analytics: Requirements for Data Transformation
There is a major change happening in the IT industry — the use of big data and analytics to guide how businesses are run. Many companies are embracing analytics as
June 19, 2014
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Product Management
Requirements for Business Analytics follow-on with more ideas
I recently gave a webinar on Requirements for Analytics Projects and had a few interesting questions come up during it. I thought I’d share some of the Q&A here, since
April 2, 2014
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Training
Shoe on the other foot: Train-the-trainer with SoftEd!
I’m really excited to announce that we are adding a few new business analysis classes to our ArgonDigital training curriculum! To make this happen, we’re partnering with Software Education who
March 20, 2014
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Product Management
Making Requirements Reusable – adapted from Software Requirements, 3rd Edition
Reuse is an eternal grail for those seeking increased software productivity. People think most often in terms of code reuse, but many other software project components also have reuse potential.
December 18, 2013
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General Articles
Delivering Success When Replacing a Software System – adapted from Software Requirements, 3rd Edition
Many IT projects today are replacement system projects instead of new software development. A replacement project replaces an existing software system with a new custom-built system, a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
December 3, 2013
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Product Management
Creativity Technique for Busniess Analysts: Constraint Removal Workshops
All too often, business analysts and product managers find themselves in the roll of glorified scribe. We use elicitation techniques to get our business partners and customers tell us what
October 15, 2013
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