Software Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Empower Business Analysts to Turn...
The Business Analyst role in most organizations I have worked with is passive and reactive by design. Analysts are given a feature description and tasked with defining the requirements for the same....
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Is Agile Dead or Can Good Software...
As Agile becomes widely accepted as a software development approach, many large organizations have adopted it, mainly in its Scrum form to reduce development cycle. There might be even a fair share of...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Just Enough
One concept you’ll hear tossed about in an Agile discussion is that of “just enough.” You want just enough documentation, just enough development and testing, just enough time for meetings, just enough...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Validation and Verification- An...
I recently began teaching our training courses here at Seilevel and one of the topics we cover is validation and verification. In the training, we ask the students to brainstorm what validation and...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Unexciting Thresholds
Kano analysis, named for Professor Noriaki Kano, is helpful for figuring out what features will have the greatest sway on customer satisfaction. The approach uses five categories for considering...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Waterfall and Agile- An Engineer’s...
Last time I talked about validation and verification and how they apply to both software requirements and engineering. Today, I’d like to cover another topic we talk about in our training and how it...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: The Business Analyst and The Agile...
The Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide is well worth the read, and I’d encourage any business analyst heading into an Agile project to take the time to give it serious consideration. The section...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Big data and analytics –...
I’m at Strata+Hadoop World today as a first timer as part of the data driven business day tutorial. I got to present in the middle of it on requirements analytics. But this whole day is awesome, like a...
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Quote of the Month October 2014
Minimalism also applies in software. The less code you write, the less you have to maintain. The less you maintain, the less you have to understand. The less you have to understand, the less chance of...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Intellectual Honesty
During a recent discussion in the office, the term “intellectual honesty” was bandied about. At Seilevel, intellectual honesty is part of our stated core values, but it’s a term that’s easily...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: 2 minute models: A walk through...
Please join me for a quick walk through our Business Objectives Model. This video only scratches the surface of how valuable this model really is, and how it can be used for a variety of projects....
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Software Development Linkopedia October 2014
Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management. This month you will find some interesting information and opinions about...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: When to Release a Product
One of the projects I’ve been working on over the past year has been particularity challenging; it’s one of those everything that can go wrong does go wrong projects. This is a back office product...
View ArticleFrom the Editor of Methods & Tools: Software Development Conferences Forecast...
Here is a list of software development related conferences and events on Agile ( Scrum, Lean, Kanban) software testing and software quality, programming (Java, .NET, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP) and...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Focus on Outcomes…not Solutions
I had a conversation a few weeks ago with an executive at a large organization, and he mentioned that he had read an interesting article a few weeks back on how Business Analysts should be focusing on...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Aligning User Expectations with...
Projects with clearly defined business objectives can and do fail even if they deliver functionality that syncs closely with the business objectives defined for the project, but do not meet user...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: The Perils of Being a BA
I’ve been in the software business for a while now – as a programmer, a project manager, and a business analyst. I think it’s affecting the way my synapses fire. Everywhere I experience poor customer...
View ArticleGood Requirements - Jeffrey Davidson: 20 Quotes about BDD and Agile Analysis
Kickstart Academy, a training organization where you get access to experts started a podcast series and I was privileged enough to be involved recently. Watch (click the image above or watch on...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: Big Data Challenges in Regulated...
I have been working with a large financial services company on a “big data” project. Let me qualify the term “big data” for the purpose of this discussion. We are talking of dealing directly with about...
View ArticleSoftware Requirements Blog - Seilevel.com: BA Advice Column
Have a knotty problem at work? Need help navigating the treacherous waters of a crazy project? Just ask Betty the Business Analyst! She’s here to drop some wisdom on you for the asking. ——————– Dear...
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