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When Good BAs do Bad Things

Adriana Beal, Product Management & Business Analysis

Given the right circumstances, even good people can go astray as our psychology push us down the slippery slope of questionable behavior. A little bit of knowledge about the forces that drive us to cheat can go a long way helping avoid bad behavior. Here are some common landmines to become aware of so you can make sure to defuse them as you embark in a new BA project.

End-to-End UML Case Study

Tony Loton, Author

The problem with many Unified Modeling Language (UML) educational texts is that they present the various concepts each in isolation; so you see a use case diagram for one problem domain, a class diagram for an entirely different problem domain, and you never get to see the important traceability between the diagrams.
In this case study we aim to put it right by working through a single problem from use cases and activity diagrams, through sequence diagrams and state diagrams, to class diagrams and component diagrams...

Karl Wiegers, Process Impact

In an earlier article, I described the importance of documenting the scope of each software development project or iteration. The context diagram and the use case diagram are two useful techniques for representing scope. This article describes two other methods for documenting scope: feature levels and system events...

KPIs for Business Analysts

Mariana Mitevska, President, IIBA Sofia Chapter, Bulgaria

Business analysts’ performance and how we could measure it appeared to be a hot topic of interest for the Business Analysis community. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” (Peter Drucker) – this statement hides lots of questions for the Business Analysis managers, like what to measure, how to assess, quantifiable or qualifiable metrics to use?

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