Shadow Footprints

I went to the NZ IIBA /a> last week. It was worthwhile and I would recommend it to any business analyst in New Zealand wanting to further their career. This one-day event was broken up into 3 streams: Equip, Evolve, Enable. Equip: Foundation Skills… more »

The following is by Cecilie Hoffman, October 24, 2010, Republished with permission. Read the poem aloud for the best result. A is for analysis - differentiate and abstract, yields requirements and rules from science inexact. B is for business, whose… more »

This evening I went to an hour-long presentation on Agile Business Analysis by Ellen Gottesdiener at the Intercontinental Hotel. I was eager to go to this as she is well-spoken of, and I have her book, The Software Requirements Memory Jogger on my desk.… more »

This has been an interesting few days. On Thursday I was interrupted in a meeting. I was scheduled to be on a 2-day course but somehow I thought it was next week. It was a course I requested and wanted to go on. Somehow I had mixed up the dates and… more »

There's a good post on writing Use Cases without specifying design on Modern Analyst. The key thing in use cases is to not refer to any UI design constructs, that is: Don't refer to buttons: e.g. instead of "user presses the Send button", say something… more »