Introduction When interacting with lots of different stakeholders there will be a high chance that at some point you will need to manage conflict either between other stakeholders or between another stakeholder(s) and you. How you handle this will have an impact on the success of what you achieve on the project and your wellbeing. Perspectives and gaps… Read More »
There are many reasons why Business Analyst involvement doesn’t happen until much later on in a project. Examples are: The business often feels they can sort out the early stages on their own. Not enough known about how a business analyst can help. There isn’t the money to fund the resource if additional cost. Not always possible to… Read More »
During the early stages of a project or change assessment one of the challenges is getting the time and information you need from stakeholders so you can elicit, document and gain consensus of the processes and requirements from them. Reasons why this can be difficult is: You might not be their manager and they don’t have to report… Read More »
It is important to ensure traceability throughout the lifecycle of the project. See diagram below for some of the main reasons for this. Traceability has several lenses that occur throughout the project lifecycle. Here is a list of some of lenses to be considered for ensuring traceability: Business Requirements trace back to the scope, objectives, problem statement and… Read More »
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The purpose of this article is to provide guidelines for writing a paper if issues arise during a project and it is unclear how to proceed. A Business Analyst can add value by writing and gathering input for an options paper. It should ideally be a one side of A4 and provide the information required to enable senior… Read More »
A entity relationship or class diagram can be used to resolve the problem when stakeholders are interchangeably using different words to mean the same thing. For the purposes of this article a conceptual model of a class diagram has been used. A conceptual model is at class level. A class is a group of data with similar characteristics.… Read More »
Below are a number of sentences extracted from requirements documents. The techniques in this article use a NLP technique called the Meta model which can be used to identify ambiguity and where information is missing. For an introduction to what NLP is please read the introduction in the following article – How NLP can be used to improve… Read More »
The techniques in this article use a NLP technique called the Meta model which can be used to identify ambiguity and where information is missing. For an introduction to what NLP is please read the introduction in the following article – How NLP can be used to improve communication with stakeholders The Meta model was originally presented in… Read More »