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I recently completed running my first UAT. Oh my word… I had no idea! Maybe my UAT was the exception to the rule and these things normally execute flawlessly… I mean, we wrote the business requirements, based on the business team’s needs, we wrote the functional requirements based on the …
Back in the day when I was an intern, I worked for a large corporation that promoted this idea of a “Work/Life Balance.” Most of my fellow interns thought it was just a catchy buzz-phrase or a sales pitch, but I have always embraced the idea. As the child of …
The Seilevel World Headquarters in Austin has workstations scattered throughout about 10 different offices (rooms, not separate locations) and about 7 conference rooms with marker boards, large tables, conference phones, and projectors. We are a consulting firm; so we aren’t all always in our office. Those of us who travel …
I am your typical Business Analyst – in other words, I went to school for something COMPLETELY unrelated, and somehow found my way into writing requirements for software development. My background is in chemical engineering and, although I have always had an interest in business and marketing, I have no …
One of the perks of working for a consulting company is that we get to work with a variety of tools and resources depending on the needs/desires of our clients. I have been working on a project to select a requirements management tool for one of our clients. For the …
When I was in first grade, my class participated in a financial education program. We learned about banks, saving money, credit cards, and how to write checks. I have always remembered this experience and thought it was absurd that they taught these things to 6 year olds, but I have …
Every discussion or training we have held at work lately keeps circling around to the same topic: Agile. Aside from the debates over whether Agile methodology is better than Waterfall overall or in which situations one is superior to the other, analysts who have worked predominantly in a Waterfall world …
