Whether you are a professional with twenty years of experience, or a new analyst - and whether your projects are short two-week efforts or multi-million dollar corporate initiatives - the Event-based analysis approach covered in this book is for you. This book is about "agile" business system analysis; and how to create a modern, useful business requirements specification really fast, without the tedious constraints of the past, and without the risk often associated with the term "agile." "Agile" business system analysis is about how to find the exact, specific questions to ask your clients...

This book is about the "how do I do this" of working with clients, users and subject-matter experts, to figure out what they really want and need for their system. This book will put into context the nature of your questions, the environment you need, how long it takes, who should be involved, and the tools you need. You'll also learn how to do it quickly, without missing a thing. You'll really find out what "agile" means - with the results, the specifications, the documentation; but without the chaos.

This course is for Business Analysts, Business System Analysts and anyone involved in requirements analysis, elicitation or gathering. It addresses how to determine business requirements. It answers the all-important questions: How do you discover the real needs and problems of the business? How do you determine the questions to ask? How do you document the answers? This course provides practical solutions to each of these important issues that are captured by these questions and more. Trond Frantzen's "PowerStart" approach to Business Requirements Analysis provides a clear alternative to the...

This book conveys clearly the elements of an agile, effective and tested method of analysis that will enable IT consultants to deliver lean business requirements for a client organization, quickly and without pain. It includes: * How to overcome the Blank Page Syndrome at the start of a project. * How to do modern, rapid business requirements analysis - without pain. * How to deliver documentation of the business requirements really fast - that is provably complete, accurate and lean.

Business Analysis is a study of what the business is supposed to do, while System Analysis is a study of the systematic behavior of the business with an emphasis on its methods and tools; in other words, how it does things. This book will show non-technical business analysts exactly how to determine what the business is supposed to do, while still producing detailed business requirements that the technical team can easily use. This book will convey clearly the elements of an agile, effective and tested method of analysis that will enable non-technical analysts to deliver lean business...