Success with Requirements

Volume 4 :: Number 1 :: 2010
ISSN: 1936-3583

Welcome to our Newsletter

Happy, Healthy New Year to you, and yours!
I hope 2010 will be see positive changes for us all.

This year, watch for growing opportunities in agile business analysis, business process management, and for those with skill in requirements analysis and collaboration to have more opportunities to have an impact at the enterprise level.

I'm pleased to announce some updated and additional (free!) resources for Navigating the IIBA® BABOK®. I am most grateful to EBG Consulting's Sr. Associate Mary Gorman for her commitment in making these resources available to our business analyst community.

~ ellen

Ellen Gottesdiener,
President and Principal Consultant
EBG Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ebgconsulting.com
twitter: www.twitter.com/ellengott

In this issue:

Free Resources for Navigating the IIBA BABOK (new one just added!)

Deep Discount for the Jogger

Upcoming Events

Requirements eLearning

Archive Issues

Free Resources for Navigating the IIBA BABOK (New One Just Added!)

In the October 2009 eNewsletter, I announced four new assets that can help you navigate the IIBA BABOK. Since then, we've been getting feedback from folks in North America, Europe, Africa and New Zealand. Here are a few of the comments: "extremely helpful," "fascinating," and "valuable information."

The IIBA Orange County, CA Chapter's Education Chair, Jeanette Carmichael wrote, "Thanks for all the great content; my chapter's CBAP study group members really love what you have done."

Mary and I are gratified that the business analysis community is benefitting from these navigation tools.

We've just published a fifth navigator listing. It lists 38 commonly used requirements models with references to their locations in the BABOK and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger (my how-to pocket or desktop guide). And we have recently reformatted the four original listing to make them easier to read.

You'll find all five BABOK navigator listings on EBG's resources page.

BTW, if you haven't taken advantage of Mary's webinar "Navigation Tips for Exploring the IIBA BABOK," use this link to access the webinar recording. You can obtain the webinar's slides here. The webinar helps you visualize the underlying foundation of the BABOK's knowledge areas, tasks and techniques. It traces foundation elements throughout the BABOK and utilizes analysis techniques (e.g., context diagram, data model, stories, state diagram) to help you explore the BABOK.

How are you navigating the BABOK? Send your ideas to Mary. We'll be featuring more strategies throughout the year.

Deep Discount for The Software Requirements Memory Jogger (pocket or desktop size guide)

My publisher is offering a new discount to IIBA members, which I can pass along to you, for either the pocket size or the new larger print, desktop size of my The Software Requirements Memory Jogger book.

Use code: IIBA and order the book directly from GOAL/QPC or call their Customer Relations line at: +1.800.643.4316 or +1.603.893.1944. This is the best price (37% discount) you'll find online.

Upcoming Events

1. Mary will present at the February 25th meeting of the Charlotte IIBA Chapter.

2. Ellen will deliver a number of sessions on agile analysis, agile requirements, and collaboration on agile teams at the Enterprise Software Development Conference in San Mateo, California on March 1-3, 2010. Get a discount by using code GOTTESDIENER when you register.

Requirements eLearning Featured in Blended Training

Some of our clients blend our content-rich eLearning curriculum, Management, with our highly interactive, skill-building instructor-led training (ILT).

Even if you don't blend it with our ILT, this self-paced eLearning may be useful to you. It is aligned with the BABOK® 2.0, is endorsed by the IIBA, and earns you 24 CDUs. You can dip in and out of eLearning courses at any time once you are registered, and access the rich templates, checklists, guidelines, real project scenarios, and quick checks.

Whether you study the curriculum on your own or with a study group (a set of people in the same organization gather to discuss the training); use it to prepare for your Certified Business Analysis Professional® (CBAP®) exam, or blend it with our instructor-led training, you will find our unique cross reference of the eLearning curriculum, BABOK, and the Jogger useful.

Check out the video tour of our 8-course eLearning Foundation for Requirements curriculum. When you register, be sure to use code FRSWR04 to receive your Success with Requirements 10% discount.

Archive Issues

Visit our archives to read our prior issues. Example topics include Resource on Agile Requirements, Dealing with Difficult Participants, and more.

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