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Business Analysts: Your Team Is Your Customer, Too The most important customers of business analysts are the team members that create the solution. Secondary customers of the business analysts are stakeholders, sponsors, and end-customers of the product. Scott Sehlhorst explains what it means to think about your team as your customer, too. |
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Validating Requirements with Given-When-Then When identifying requirements, it can be really tricky to develop a good understanding of how software should behave. Scott Sehlhorst looks at the Given-When-Then approach and how it allows teams to combine the benefits of incremental development with the benefits of getting it right the first time. |
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The Web Struggles with Calls for Universal Design for the Disabled Signed into law only twenty-three years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act is already becoming outdated. With the shift to online-everything, many disabled Americans are calling for greater accessibility, but arguments as to who should foot the bill for this unclear task are beginning to rise. |
