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How to Help Project Stakeholders Avoid the Aspirin When we first speak to project stakeholders, they talk about all of the problematic symptoms—as this is the day-to-day pain that they feel. Developing requirements and solutions around these symptoms might be the equivalent of taking aspirin because the root cause will still be there. |
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Reviewing Specifications: Focus on What's Not Said Reviewing a specification or a user story as it's being created is probably the most crucial way testers can contribute early in the software development process. Rick Scott explains three steps for reviewing requirements specifications that focus on what is not said and what should be answered. |
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Making Process Changes in Days or Weeks, Not Months or Years Business process improvement and the resulting change management are not for the faint of heart. Laura Brandenburg makes the case that BAs not only need to support organizations in changing more complex, decision-rich processes, but also in doing so faster—in days or weeks, not month or years. |
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Behavior-Driven Development: The Outside-In Approach Behavior-driven development (BDD) is a software development practice that is utilized by many agile teams. BDD is an evolution of test-driven development but with an important distinction—it is outside-in. Scott Sehlhorst provides a business analyst’s understanding of BDD. |
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Agility Trumps Chaos at Amazon during the Holidays How does Amazon get through the chaos of the holiday season year after year? By incorporating the Agile Manifesto in nearly everything they do. With eighty fulfillment centers worldwide, learn how the shipping giant is constantly improving processes to leave their customers thrilled. |
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How to Manage Work-from-Home Employees Who wouldn’t want to work from home? For many, it’s the ideal set-up, and it’s not surprising that work-from-home arrangements are more common than ever. Naomi Karten writes on how management can create a productive work environment for remote employees. |
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Where Is the Business Analyst in UK Government Software Projects? While the UK government has taken major strides to save money and deliver more with less on its major projects, Adrian Reed looks at the possible implications of the absence of the business analyst role in the government's mandated guidelines and policy manuals. |
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New SEC Software Breaks Up Insider-Trading Ring The next time you come across some top-secret information regarding stock tips, you might want to second-guess yourself if you plan on doing a little insider wheeling and dealing. New software at the Securities and Exchange Commission has led regulators to recently break up an insider-trading ring. |
