Business Analysis

Business Analyst Profit Center

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Kevin Brennan recently posted his presentation from BA World Toronto (hat tip to Ryan). It’s a great presentation, with compelling imagery. Kevin raises an interesting point – are BA’s doomed to obsolescence? Kevin cites outsourcing and agile as two developments that might make BA’s irrelevant. With outsourcing, your company risks […]

Agile / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models / Software development / Use Cases

Agile Development of Use Cases

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We proposed a strategy for developing use cases as part of an agile development methodology last week. In this article, we will look in more detail at that proposal, and also look at a specific way to apply agile techniques to the development of the use cases. What we propose is essentially incremental development of use cases, and starting what comes next as soon as you can.

Requirements / Requirements Models / UML Modeling

How To Use UML Statechart Substates

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UML Statecharts can be very effective modeling tools for describing systems and software requirements. They provide a clear framework for identifying business rules. The same business rules often apply to multiple states – defining a commonality for those states. There is an element called a substate in UML statecharts that can be used to make it more obvious that a particular business rule applies to multiple states.

Agile / Business Analysis / Prioritization / Product Management / Project Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering / Requirements Models / Software development / Use Cases

How To Start The Use Case Process For Agile Software Development

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One of the goals of agile software development is to deliver value quickly and iteratively. One of the most effective ways to begin the software development process is with use cases. To deliver with agility, you start with the most valuable use case, bang it out, and then move on to the next most valuable use case. How do you know which use case is the most valuable if you haven’t defined all the use cases first?