IAG Blog
Blog: Determine when you are “done”
Four simple tests to assess if requirements are not doneThese are Business Requirements level tests that work and will improve your requirements quality irrespective of delivery methodology:If the requirements lack context: Requirements always exist to...
Blog: Maturity is More than Looking for Grey Hair and Wrinkles
The concept of capability maturity has been around since Deming first started the quality movement in the 1950s. So what's a "mature" business analyst? Are we really looking for grey hair and wrinkles to determine that individuals or collective organizations are...
Blog: Outsourcing A Requirements Center of Excellence
Case_Study_RCOE_Outsource.pdf There are four situations where companies should strongly consider and investigate outsourcing the Requirements Center of Excellence (RCoE): 1. Growing very rapidly: Where a company is...
Blog: It Ain’t Easy Being Agile
You have to admit - agile folks are conflicted. On one hand there's the folks screaming requirements are dead***. On the other hand, people teaching agile practices have to explain the asterisks; mention these things called user stories and the practices of getting...
Blog: Requirements-Driven Waste in IT Spending
High requirements maturity translates directly to IT spending efficiency. These efficiency advantages become more pronounced as the size and complexity of projects grow. By investing in requirements maturity, organizations can not only improve business analysis...
Blog: What Is Requirements Discovery?
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 appropriate to the...