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If you know even a little about Agile, you’ll have heard of the idea of using index cards for managing requirements. It might seem like a trivial concept, but I’ve had some unexpected successes with index cards recently, so I thought I’d share them with you. The concept Here’s the concept. Now, brace yourselves, because [...]
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There’s a lot of information on the Interweb about how to write a functional specification (FS for short, aka software requirements specification, system specification, product specification), including a fair few articles here on Bridging the Gap. Adriana Beal’s article earlier this year explains why writing a Software Requirements Specification is a valuable analyst skill, and Doug [...]
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So here’s a topic that you don’t see discussed very often. Document version numbers might seem like a trivial concept – a subject upon which there is little to be said – but they are a real bug bear for me. Let me explain why. The Problem Most people tend to use the following version [...]
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One of my co-authors here on Bridging the Gap recently wrote an article titled Design and requirements? Pshaw!, discussing whether or not it is good practice to include ‘designs’ within a requirements document. I’ve seen this debate before, in various guises, and I’m always a little bemused and confused by it. And here’s the reason: To [...]
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In my previous post I described my experience as a business analyst on an agile project. One of the key artifacts I produced on the project was the functional specification (FS). In this post I’m going to get right under the covers of the FS and explain exactly what it was and how it worked. My intention [...]
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In my previous article I described my first ever agile project as a Java developer. I highlighted some of the challenges that we faced in terms of the requirements gathering and analysis work. In this article I’m going to talk about my first agile project as a business analyst, and how I took on some [...]
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In my previous article titled “How I became an agile business analyst” I talked about my passage from the world of good old fashioned ‘write it all up and get it signed off’ business analysis into the uncharted territories of agile. In this article I’m going to describe my first experience on an agile project. I [...]
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Hi there. My name is Tony. I live in Leeds, England and I’m an Agile Business Analyst. Oh dear, that sounds more like a confession at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting than my first ever online article. It’s also not true and, so some people say, an oxymoron. Actually, what I really am is a regular [...]
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