Story mapping
Story mapping provides a visual and physical view of the sequence of activities to be supported by solution. It uses a 2 dimensional grid structure to show sequencing groupings of…
Story elaboration
Story elaboration provides the lowest level of story decomposition. The key elements of story elaboration are Elicitation Story decomposition Acceptance criteria Any other optional elements Story elaboration helps to identify…
BA Techniques: Story decomposition
Story decomposition breaks down information from goals to a lower level. Story decomposition allows people to look at breath over depth. What that means is that it enables a business…
BA Techniques: Value Stream Mapping
Value stream mapping is the technique used to understand the whole picture and the context. it helps in the elimination of waste. A value stream map represents the flow of…
BA Techniques: Persona’s
Persona analysis is a technique used for understanding the whole picture and the context of the effort. This is a use centered design technique from a user perspective: Although these…
Top 3 Reasons to Incorporate Traceability to Your Requirements
How you trace requirements impacts the quality and the delivery of the product. Did you know that the average $3 million project costs companies using poor requirements practices an average of $5.87 million per…
5 Steps for Effective Facilitation of Meetings
Have you ever attended those never ending requirements meetings where people just talk over each other and multi task, which results in no decisioning? It all boils down to how…
Stakeholder Analysis
If you are a new BA you might be wondering what a Stakeholder is. A Stakeholder is anyone that is directly or indirectly impacted by a project. A stakeholder could…