OK, so you’ve had some great sessions with users and stakeholders. What they want the system to do is neatly captured in a number of user stories. Now what? While user stories do a great job of expressing functional (and often non-functional) requirements in words that business users can understand, that’s not the case for developers. Remember that a business analyst is the communicator between the business AND the developer. There just isn’t enough information in a user story for…
Continue ReadingUser Stories & The Jungle Book
24/04/2015 |
By IRM Training
Back in 1902, a collection of stories and poems for children – the Just So Stories written by Rudyard Kipling – was published. For those of you struggling to place Rudyard Kipling, he was the author of The Jungle Book. Check out the Disney movie of the same name if you’re still not sure – or ask your children! Kipling knew a thing or two about the written language. Tucked away in one of the Just So Stories were a group of words which have…
Continue ReadingJust Enough Documentation
02/12/2010 |
By IRM Training
Is documentation a blessing or a curse? If you’re working on an agile project does it get in the way? If you’re updating a core system that runs your company’s business, are you cursing the analyst who didn’t adequately document all the business functionality? Is today’s agile project tomorrow’s core system? How much documentation to produce is one of the most troublesome issues facing analysts today. There are no hard and fast rules on this and successful projects define their…
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