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Blog: Requirements Maturity Checkup!
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 IAG’s...
Blog: Requirements Attack!
In my job, I get to hang out with a lot of very senior people and talk with them about requirements and business analysts. The one complaint I hear over and over: "Our BAs are not proactive". Maybe some in the organization are being a bit passive, but the executives I...
Blog: Fat Requirements: How to Lose Weight and Enjoy the Sunshine
Have you noticed the obesity epidemic plaguing North America? Hey, I'm not talking about the kind you get when eating the wrong foods - I'm talking requirements obesity. Generating fat, hulking, documents that look terrible on the shelf gathering dust is not at all...
Blog: Requirements Case Study: Michigan Department of Transportation
The Michigan Department of Transportation Engineers New Approach to Business Requirements Definition that Saves Taxpayers’ Money• As part of an overall plan to improve project management, the Michigan DOT first turned to...
Blog: Poor requirements are expensive!
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Blog: Requirements; How Do I Know When I’m Done?
This is one of the most common and controversial questions amongst business analysts and project managers: "When are requirements done?" The most common response to this question, "When the customer signs off," frankly makes me want to tear my hair out. The focus has...