So let’s get straight into it, when wanting to find the success of a product there are so many factors to explore. Can the four elements from the RACE theory define the success of a product? We think so.
RACE is a common method used within digital marketing using metrics to define the success of a campaign. It’s assumed that anybody can take these four elements and provide evidence to demonstrate if the product has been successful or not.
Let’s say we have a product we want to release, we can only do so much research beforehand to define its…
It is often argued that business analysts like functional requirements, so, therefore, they tend to naturally gravitate towards these.
On the other hand, the humble non-functional requirements are left in the shadow and rarely given a second thought until the last minute. Doing, this causes many issues when you are about to go live with a system. While the system/product may look great, if the performance is not there then no one will use it. This will impact the business a lot more than if a nice to have a feature is not included in the final product.
Differences
Functional requirements…
Technology along with many other industries has this illusion you can only work in it if you are from a certain background. I am sure you won’t be shocked or maybe you will be but women are woefully underrepresented in the tech industry across the western hemisphere. There are many reasons for this; it can range from girls being told at a young age that they can’t work in the tech industry from the macho culture that currently exists in certain tech companies. You only have to look at the news in the last couple of years to realise that…
You can never have enough canvas…
Every business analyst who has worked or works in digital projects has come across the term “microservices”. More and more businesses are implementing this way of working in their organization.
The need for the business analyst to understand this way of working has increased. One of the best ways to get your head around this architectural style ways of working is to get involved in designing the microservice with the development team. Before you can start designing the microservice you need to understand both the ‘surface of the service’ and ‘below the surface’ element of the service.
Brief overview
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Introduction
First of all, let’s get this out of the way. Gamestorming is not new. Gamestorming is a collection of ‘games’ put together under the banner of ‘gamestorming’. As a business analyst (BA) I can assure you there will be many games in the book and on the website, that you have used in your role under different guises.
Dave Gray(co-author of ‘gamestorming’) put it best when he described himself and his fellow authors as the Grimms brothers. The Grimms brothers, if you are not familiar with them- they brought together different fairy tales and published them in a book.
Both…
Business analysts are meant to be good at facilitating, it’s meant to be one of our key skills.
However, speaking to many of the BAs in my network, facilitation is the one area that they feel that they can do more. I guess one of the difficulties with facilitation is that you don’t always end up with a tangible outcome. This then makes it harder to determine the value in what you have achieved. No, one wants to go a two-hour meeting, where they sit around the desk and discuss the same things over and over again. …
