by IAG Webmaster | August 8, 2011 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

How mature is your organization’s requirements practices? Now you can find out! IAG Consulting has just launched a new (free) online assessment tool that will evaluate your requirements maturity based on 40 questions. The assessment is based on IA…

by IAG Webmaster | May 13, 2011 | Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

What do you need the most when eliciting requirements? Face-time with Subject Matter Experts and their Managers. As a Business Analyst employed in a typical organization, what is the thing you get the least of? Face-time with Subject Matter Expert…

by IAG Webmaster | August 22, 2011 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 1 Comment

Requirements discovery is also often referred to as requirements elicitation, requirements gathering, requirements analysis, and requirements definition. We prefer to use the term because it’s a little less high-brow, more meaningful, and more app…

by IAG Webmaster | March 14, 2011 | Business Analysis, Business Architecture, Most Popular, PPM, RDM | 0 Comments

I wonder if organizations give out awards for surviving the most reorganizations in a single decade to particular business functions. I’m thinking that most analysts get to experience this frequently as the pendulum of organizational design swings…

by IAG Webmaster | May 26, 2015 | Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 0 Comments

Implementing new or refined processes, practices and rules for requirements and analysis in the project and development lifecycles can have significant organization benefits but can also be challenging and risks failure if not done effectively. The importance of...

by IAG Webmaster | April 17, 2015 | Business Analysis, Most Popular | 0 Comments

International Institute of Business Analysis® (IIBA®) has just releasing a new version of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) which has expanded the scope of the standard to new areas like business architecture and BPM, revamped the knowledge area and...

by IAG Webmaster | November 1, 2011 | Agile, Business Analysis, Most Popular, RDM | 1 Comment

Four simple tests to assess if requirements are not done These are Business Requirements level tests that work and will improve your requirements quality irrespective of delivery methodology: If the requirements lack context: Requirements always e…