This article is the first in a series on prioritising requirements. It explores why it is critical to project success to prioritise requirements, why it can be unsuccessful and describes two...

In today's organisations there are teams or communities of business analyst who need to be led and feel part of the business analysis profession and a business analysis practice. There is a need to...

I started in IT in 1991 and have been through a number of roles and jobs since then, only finding my calling and emerging as a business analyst in recent years. I've recently been looking back and...

In this article, I shall describe what is meant by business object modelling, where it comes from, the benefits of this approach, some basic principles and when it should be used.  Business object...

User acceptance testing (UAT) is one of the many flavours of testing that has emerged over the last twenty years or so. The emergence of UAT has provided thought and guidance on the business analyst...

This article will introduce business analysis facilitation workshops and will include where it came from, why it is used, the basic principles and the different styles.In essence, the workshop...

This article will define a candidate use case and how to identify use cases.  It will identify the resources you can use as the source material to identify your use cases. It will also explain what...

In this article, I'll be discussing some other requirements gathering methods that complement use case modelling and should be used to ensure your requirements gathering goes swimmingly (see Use...

This article puts use cases into context by exploring where they sit within a project. Various methods for validating them within the wider context are also discussed.It also discusses what other...

At point or another a business analyst will come across a business domain subject matter expert (SME) or a SME in IT projects. The SME in business project can either be the cause of success or...

This article describes the structure of a use case in some depth and introduces other important use case concepts. For detailed use case narrative (also known as use case description) guidelines you...

There is some dispute regarding the use of the term non functional requirements (NFRs) and whether it is the correct term. However, it is in common use and serves a recognised purpose. In this...

There are many ways of modelling requirements in IT development these days but one of the most popular approaches involves use cases. Most business analysts in their journey have had to either learn...