Prioritization / Requirements / Requirements gathering

Vote Early And Often – Getting Value From Brainstorming

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Brainstorming can be a simultaneously fun and effective technique for identifying software features or requirements. We’ve written previously about how to facilitate a brainstorming session and how to leverage the results. Timothy Johnson shares another way to use the results effectively. His way is more fun, and maybe just as effective.

Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering

BPMN Diagrams – Play Catch With Intermediate Errors

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Business Processes might start out as easy-to-diagram simple processes. Over time, these processes get more complex, as they have to deal with real-world considerations and unanticipated situations. Things can go wrong. Classical flow diagramming gets complex when dealing with errors or exceptions in a process, while BPMN modeling keeps things simple.

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BPMN Diagrams – Never Too Late For An Intermediate Timer Event

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Business process modeling in the real world requires us to represent how processes deal with exceptions, delays and deadlines. Intermediate timer events can be used to model deadlines and the business processes for handling them. See an example of how to model a business process where two deadlines expire and the business responds.

Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering

BPMN Diagrams – Wait For An Intermediate Timer Event

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Business process modeling requires us to model behaviors of people and organizations. Those behaviors often involve waiting. Prescribed delays, or waiting for a specific time or date is what we can represent with an intermediate timer event in the sequence flow of a BPMN diagram. This article shows an example of how to model this delay in a business process.