Elevating the Role of the Business Analyst
by David Heidt
This article is the first in a series discussing how progressive organizations are moving away from today’s traditional requirements approaches to a business specification-centric approach.
Over the last several years the business analyst role has garnered increased recognition within the marketplace. The push towards business agility, increased compliance and regulatory requirements, exorbitantly high IT costs, outsourcing and new technology enablers are the drivers behind organizations taking a closer look at their business analysis competency.
This recent surge of marketplace activity around business analysis methods, techniques, training, bodies of knowledge and professional certifications are all part of this wave of interest.
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Functionals, Non-Functionals, and Contraints
It's common for people to talk about functional requirements and non-functional requirements, but they often miss constraints. Some people will include constraints as non-functionals, which seems fair on the surface, but that can sometimes prove dangerous in complex situations.
In the October issue of DDJ my column discusses agile strategies for dealing with non-functionals and contraints. The agile community spends a lot of time discussing effective ways for dealing with functionals but rarely the other two.
- Scott