I recently trained a couple of groups of analysts in India on ArgonDigital methodology. This was the first time we had done training in an Indian setting and honestly, I have to confess to being more than a bit apprehensive when I set out. My fears, set out in no particular order of importance, included: […]
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An Exciting Week for ArgonDigital Business Analyst Training!
It was a full house for ArgonDigital Business Analyst Training last week, and it was so great to meet people from Frontier, USAA, Lincoln Financial Group, and First Command! Going into last week’s training courses, we made changes to the Requirements Visualization course (see this recent post for details) to align the course to our […]
Requirements Training: Consuming our Deliverables
Business Objectives defined…check. Organizational Chart created…check. Process Flows defined…check. System Context Diagram confirmed…check. Requirements written…check. Everything handed off to development…check. So, we’re done…right? Nope, the fun is just getting started! We spend a lot of time working with our business sponsors, the subject matter experts, and the project manager to elicit and document the requirements. […]
Behind the scences at our video shoot: Requirements Visualization Training- A guide to RML
This week was our first video shoot in our video training series, Requirements Visualization Training- A guide to RML. This is a training series that we have presented to clients as well as the public. We have created a series of videos that explain parts of our requirements modeling methodology. During this training series we […]
Ask Joy: BA Team Training with Stakeholder Role
Jim asks: “I’m going to do some training of my Business Analyst team, how can I simulate the stakeholder role in my training when I can’t get real ones?” Answer: Thanks for the question Jim. I think there are two approaches that would work well here. The first thing is to have your students do role playing […]
Live from RE’10: Requirements Training Teachers Dos and Don’ts
A common statement heard around the training industry is: Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. And often those who do the teaching say this phrase jokingly, so it’s usually in good fun. As we just finished the 5th annual REET on education and training in requirements engineering, I wanted to reflect on this […]