Tag: requirements development

One of the tasks in the Requirements Analysis knowledge area of the BABOK® Guide is “Specifying and modeling requirements.”  This task offers a lot of common sense advice when it comes to writing and modeling your stakeholder or solution requirements for your project. There are several recommended elements that you should consider applying on your […]

Experienced business analysts and project managers know how important it is to plan your work activities before you start doing them.  Planning doesn’t have to take a lot of time in order to be helpful.  Perhaps you sit down with your business analysis team and divvy up the requirements work for the week or have […]

Stakeholder or user profiling involves eliciting, analyzing, and organizing information about key stakeholders involved in your project.   Most of us are pretty good at working with and involving our end users and senior managers.  It’s those other stakeholders that sometimes get lost in the shuffle and come back to bite us later.  It’s never too […]

As a project manager or business analyst, you often find yourself acting as an agent of change for your organization.  This is inevitable since you are shepherding new solutions from their conception to their completion. The trick is making sure that folks are ready and willing to use the new solutions to get the job […]

I’ve said it once and I will say it again, preparing for the IIBA’s CBAP® or CCBA™ certification exam can sure be a lot of work! One recommended thing you should know backwards and forwards before sitting your exam are the six knowledge areas and their associated tasks. Here’s yet another BABOK® Guide knowledge area for you to […]