May
9
The Sound of Crickets, Chirping
May 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been busy prepping for BA World Toronto.
I’ll be there Wednesday and Thursday.
On Wednesday, I’ll be facilitating the Roundtable Discussion on Agile Analysis on the tradeshow floor at 4 PM.
On Thursday, I’ll be presenting a symposium on Requirements-based Testing from 3:45 to 4:45 PM (and in case you’re wondering, [...]
May
8
Link–BPM/SOA Convergence
May 8, 2006 | Comments Off
Bruce Silver on the convergence of BPM and SOA. Not surprising–an architecture that’s capable of supporting all business processes is inevitably going to take on the characteristics of SOA.
May
4
The Elsewhere… Sideblog
May 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment
In the previous incarnation of this blog, I used to do the occasional roundup post of interesting material that I’d found on other sites. Now, with the help of the Sideblog plugin, I’m going to stop doing those posts and instead publish them over there, to the right.
May
4
BP Trends has published its 2006 Report on Business Rules.
May
4
Link–Business Architecture Description
May 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment
A Standard for Business Architecture Description
May
4
Link–Brenda on the Agile BA
May 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Brenda Kerton on Agile Business Analysis
May
4
On Requirements and Design
May 4, 2006 | 3 Comments
In a comment responding to an earlier post, Roger Cauvin pointed me to some criticism of popular definitions of requirements he’s made. In that post, he repeats a certain popular belief:
A proper definition of requirement must clearly distinguish between requirements and design.
Should it?
May
3
The Popularity of Use Cases
May 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment
In my previous post, I briefly argued that one reason use cases have gained wide acceptance is that they can express a large number of different business requirements in a single form. In particular, they’re capable of capturing people, process, policy, and interaction requirements.
This flexibility is probably also the reason why there seem to be [...]
May
1
Requirements Types: The 3PI Metamodel
May 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment
What follows probably won’t end up as part of the BA BoK. I think it’s good and helpful material, but the problem is that it springs out of my own head and so fails the “generally accepted” test.
There’s no truly useful way to categorize requirements at present, from the perspective of a BA. At one [...]
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