Articles
Using Personas
This article discusses how the Open University explores the usage of personas, scenarios and narratives as a methodology underpinning the production life-cycle of new learning systems, from conception through to design, development, testing and post production promotion. It explains the personas, scenarios and narrative concepts.
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Building the Right Scope
In this article from chapter 4 of Specification by Example, author Gojko Adzic explains how to work together with business users to come up with the right stories and that the key idea to achieve that is not to start with user stories but with business goals and derive the scope from that.
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Discovering Business Architecture Value
In business use case (BUC), an abstraction of the system use case model, business actors with specific business goals interact with other business actors. It is primarily an external view of the business model or area of interest. This article explains how business use cases can help business architects, helping them to discover quality high […]
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The Concept of the Minimum Viable Product
Does the word ‘minimum’ immediately raise your hackles? This article emphasizes that learning to prioritize, getting to production early, and subsequently delivering in small increments are key disciplines in the practices of Agile and continuous delivery. The term Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has been around, in various forms, for a long time. I’ve also heard […]
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If You Think You Can Do Without a Business Analyst …Think Again!
This article introduces you to how the Business Analysis (BA) discipline can contribute to strategic, project and organizational success. In other words, how does Business Analysis add value to the organization? This article try to address and answer this question.
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Agile Requirements at Enterprise Scale
This article describes an organizational, process and requirements model for implementing agile methods at enterprise scale. While fully scalable to all levels of the project, program and portfolio, the foundation of the model is a quintessentially lean and agile subset in support of the agile project teams that write and test all the code.
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