Why Business Analysis Matters More During A Recession
In a recent blog post, I wrote about creating successful projects with fewer resources. Given the state of the economy at the end of 2008, that seemed an appropriate topic.
Product Management
Why Business Analysts Need to Listen to the Crowd: Crowdsourcing Requirements Elicitation
My last post asked: Is social media useful for requirements elicitation? In this post, I will explain why it is not only useful, but essential. That is because the more
Why Business Analysts Should Consider Using Display-Action-Response (DAR) Models Early
At first glance, nailing down the requirements for a system’s user interface probably does not seem as daunting to a business analyst as handling the complexity of its backend operations
Why Create a Center of Excellence?
Many years ago (I won’t say just how many), I had a job as a programmer with a big consulting firm. On my first assignment, I was handed a very
Why Do I Do the Things I Do?
I’ve been around software development for quite a while and have trained others in many different activities. Here is one of the most important questions I’ve learned to ask myself
Why Do I Need to Baseline My Requirements?
The Problem One of the most frequent reasons for project failure is “scope and requirements creep”. Too often, the scope of a product development project changes in midstream as stakeholders
Why Do My Requirements Keep Changing?
This is a very common question. There are various reasons. Some we have control over and some we don’t. A key point is that we want to avoid changes that
Why do so many software projects fail?
I am always amazed at how many software projects fail. Most of these projects have great people working on them, doing the right things, and yet the project still fails. Even if
Why Do We Need Text-based Requirements?
With increasing frequency, people are coming to us with a common refrain: “Why do we need text-based requirements? We all know that, more times than not, the stakeholders don’t know
Why Finding a Job Can Be Puzzling
Who’s up for another brainteaser? Well you need to be because it doesn’t look like they’re going away anytime soon. Try this one- Why do software companies subject job candidates
Why IT Needs to Know Business Problems
In a survey of over 500 senior business and technology executives done by the MIT Sloan School of Management, only 18% say that their company’s IT spending was “highly aligned
Why meetings are so disruptive
Paul Graham has a great article on his blog on why meetings feel so disruptive to many of us. He partitions the world into managers and makers. Managers live their
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