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Blog: IAG Consulting Offers Free Online Requirements Maturity Assessment Tool
NEW CASTLE, DE (January 14, 2012) IAG Consulting, the leading requirements consulting and software solutions provider, has announced the availability of an online tool for organizations to assess the maturity of their requirements definition and management (RDM)...
Blog: BI Requirements: Success Enablers
A BI Project can only be successful if it actually gets built and if the Clients utilize it. Data Warehouse best practices indicate that there are some enablers toward making a BI implementation successful Have Strong Executive Management Support With executive...
Blog: Playing Planning Poker
Planning poker is an agile technique for estimating the work effort of the product backlog Items. The method originally comes from the XP process but is now used in many agile and non-agile methodologies. Basically it works like this: 1. Each team member (some...
Blog: Understanding Your Role in a Requirements Session
1. Requirements Team (Facilitator, BusinessAnalyst)Enable the requirements discovery process by:Asking relevant questionsRecording answers provided by SubjectMatter ExpertsKeeping the process movingUtilizing effective facilitation anddocumentation skillsKeeping...
Blog: 5 Critical Points BAs Need to Remember
1. You will always be describing a process. Determine the process that is to be automated, and describe it.2. You must understand something at one level before you can truly understand it at a lower level. Start your analysis by describing the overall process at ahigh...
Blog: Key Questions for Breaking Through on a Difficult User Story
The Challenge User stories that should be simple are frequently quite complex, written ambiguously, or have underlying needs that are hidden below the surface. Some should be broken up in to multiple stories. You may not know how best to write a user story and...