An introduction to the Activities elements of business process modeling diagrams.

Another challenge to a premise of agile comes in a well assembled argument from Tony at Seilevel, in his article, Agile…again.

Business process modeling examples showing how to use the five different gateways defined in the BPMN specification.

Examples showing how and when to use the 6 different types of start events in business process modeling notation (BPMN) diagrams.

Incremental delivery planning is not an oxymoron.  You just plan the soon-to-happen tasks in detail, and keep the distant tasks more vague.  Does this make sense?
Rolling-Wave Planning
Johanna Rothman has posted an article that provides a good introduction to rolling-wave planning.  She explains that she manages incremental projects with biweekly deliveries, and manages the project schedule [...]

Market requirements change. These changes impact the use cases that support the changing requirements. Functional requirements change. These changes impact the use cases that they support. How can we leverage use cases to manage these changes? And how can we manage changes to use cases?

The IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) has just released version 1.6 of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, or the BA BOK. This new release adds over 100 pages of content and is the first “essentially complete” version.

… Skyline Unharmed
Short-sighted demands on software teams usually don’t kill people. Software development is often described with a construction analogy. The Big Dig construction project was under exactly that kind of pressure. On July 10th, 12 tons of tunnel ceiling collapsed and killed a motorist. On July 20th, Mitt Romney ordered [...]

We manage release schedules with project management. We manage customer expectations with consulting skills. How do we manage customer expectations about release schedules? With Use Cases.
Background
We started a series of posts exploring why we apply use cases as part of product management, identifying 8 goals for which use cases are [...]

Business Process Modeling allows us to increase our understanding of business processes and improve communication with stakeholders and implementation teams. Business analysts will create diagrams that represent business processes. These diagrams can be used to elicit requirements, define scope, and improve communication within the team.