Use Cases + User Stories to Make You Nimble

Insights from Ivar Jacobson on leveraging use cases and user stories, emphasizing a tailored approach with Essence framework for nimbleness.

The Power Of Clear Requirements: Building Successful Software

Discover the crucial role of requirements in software development. Karl Wiegers shares insights on their importance, clear communication, and agile practices for success.

“Real needs” investigation – elicitation techniques applied

WORKSHOP: The Business Analyst is encouraged to take responsibility for identifying the “real” problems and opportunities and enabled to do it using the right elicitation technique for each situation.

The Agile Requirement – a new definition

PRESENTATION: Interactive activities, pools, video, and live music with a Brazilian folkloric guitar to demonstrate how the Agile Requirement can be implemented to bring real Business Agility.

Sustainability Requirements: a new concept in Business Analysis

Stefan Bossuwé and Ines Vanlangendonck discuss the topic of sustainability requirements and how that may be applied in a BA perspective.

The Amazing ChatGPT Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

Learn to distinguish between functional and non-functional requirements for a software specification.

Chat GPT knows how to differentiate rules from requirements. Do you?

A practical example to understand once and for all the difference between requirements and business rules and why it is important to keep them separate.

The most important lesson for software development

Karl Wiegers tells the most important lesson he learned after fifty years working in software development.

Are there some universal principles of good product design?

Karl Wiegers presents some principles and lessons anyone can use to design better products.

Are projects and requirements still needed in Agile?

The master of Happy Projects, Roland Gareis, presents projects as temporary social systems to achieve unique results.

Difference between requirements and rules

Gladys Lam illustrates the difference between business requirements and business rules with a simple and practical example from home.

What is ATDD / BDD?

Howard Podeswa explains the meaning and how to use Acceptance Criterias in a Software Development life-cycle based on an Agile Approach.

How do I ensure that a story is ready for development?

Howard Podeswa points four different techniques to help us to create stories that could be passed to the development team.

The Agile Requirement

a new proposed definition

Corona Christmas

With changes happening in my family and around us, I had to write a new letter to Santa Claus changing my requirements. Context changes and we must find new alternatives to meet the business goals. That is when agility is important. Context always rules.

Requirements to Santa Claus

I decided to write Santa a requirements specification and make sure everything is well defined. Merry Christmas to all.

Backlog Management

Who needs to manage a backlog? Only those who have a lot to do and little time (or resources), that is, nowadays, everyone. This video is a class that is part of the online course BABOK Guide Business Analysis produced by #thebrazilianba. Leave a comment or get in touch if you are interested and want […]

Business Analysts role in RFP

In RFP (Request For Proposal) different companies share informations about a problem or opportunity to be addressed. And Business Analysis operates in both sides of this communication. RFP is a request in which an issuer asks responders to submit proposals demonstrating how a product or service they offer can solve the issuer’s requirements. Read the […]

Requirements Management

A project is expected to meet its deadline, budget and scope. But, in many cases, even if commitments are fulfilled, managers and administrators do not understand why their projects and investments fail in the main objetive: meeting the needs for which they were created. This short video presents what is requirements management, and how this […]