Oct
31
Towards BoK 2.0
October 31, 2005 | 1 Comment
From the Preface:
BOK Review Committee to gather practitioner feedback
The BOK Committee has heard from a number of people who want to volunteer and be part of creating the BA Body of Knowledge. In order to accommodate as many as possible, and toensure a full review of the draft content included in this document, a [...]
Oct
31
IBM, Google to Team Up On Enterprise Search
October 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Heh. Told you so.
UPDATE: And now they’re going to help out OpenOffice.org, too, by hiring some developers for it.
Oct
31
BABoK 1.4 Released
October 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment
It’s now available at the IIBA Website.
Oct
26
BaBoK 1.4 Redux
October 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I really, really hate the way MS Word handles master documents and subdocuments. I also hate it that only Word 2003 allows you to lock the styles.
Anyway. Done. Much work accomplished since the last release, much still left to go. The next step is to take a serious look at what’s in there and [...]
Oct
25
BABoK 1.4 To Be Released Shortly
October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I just sent off the PDF.
Oct
24
Why Experience Doesn’t Produce Better Analysts
October 24, 2005 | 2 Comments
A while back, I was chatting with a friend of mine about a mutual acquaintance. My friend, who had worked with the acquaintance previously, described him as a intermediate-level analyst–smart, but not someone who could run a large analysis effort on his own, and not as good an analyst as I am. However, if you [...]
Oct
24
RUP to Include Enterprise Planning Component
October 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment
They’re pretty busy over at IBM these days. Like the previous open sourcing of RUP, there’s very little available on the site to tell you what this actually means in practice.
It’s useful in that it confirms that the BA BoK really needs a strong Enterprise Analysis component–by the time we’re ready to roll out [...]
Oct
21
OpenOffice 2.0 Released
October 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released yesterday.
For home users, there’s no question that OOo is a viable MS Office replacement. The UI isn’t quite as shiny as Office 2003, perhaps, but overall it does what most people need and more. I’d probably use it as my primary office suite except for minor incompatibilities with Word.
For businesses–well, [...]
Oct
18
Use Case Management Applications
October 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment
As far as I’m aware, there are only two use case management applications on the market: Serlio’s Case Complete and Rewritten Software’s Use Case Studio. I last looked at them a year or so ago–I need to take a look and see how they’ve changed.
The thing that struck me on looking at them was that [...]
Oct
17
«include» and «extend»
October 17, 2005 | 1 Comment
These stereotypes tend to cause great pain to people developing use case models. While the technical definitions are complex, the actual practical uses are simple enough.
«include» should be used when you have functionality common to multiple use cases. The included use case will be something like Authenticate User. The calling use case goes off, [...]
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