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This weekend I learned about a cool new gadget made by Amazon: the Amazon Dash. This device pairs with your AmazonFresh account (an account for local delivery of groceries- available only in certain locations) and allows you to stock your online grocery list by speaking your food’s name or by …
Here at Seilevel, we are often asked what actually constitutes “good” requirements. If you gathered a group of project team members and started making a list of all the qualities that would define a “good” requirement, you would quickly become overwhelmed. We have narrowed the massive requirement wish-list down to …
Unlike most financially responsible individuals, when I find myself in a situation where my legitimate financial means come up short and I need extra cash, instead of cutting back on my budget I often look for new quick (risky?) sources of income. Most of these turn out to be terrible …
What is a Business Analyst and who is the ideal candidate? Well, I guess the most simple answer would be someone who analyzes an organization. But it’s that, and so much more. It’s also becoming an extremely popular profession in the eyes of upcoming/recent college graduates. I would not even …
Seilevel is kicking off 2013 with two training opportunities, one in New York and another in Iowa. We’ll be in each location for three days, and students can select from three classes (but we hope you’ll take all three). Locations/Dates: Des Moines: February 4-6 New York City: February 11-13 Los Angeles: …
Seilevel is excited to announce that our resident authors, Joy Beatty and Tony Chen, of Visual Models for Software Requirements have been recognized for their book they released last year. The Puget Sound Society for Technical Communication (STC) recently announced awards for their Microsoft Press books from a 2012 competition and …
Visual software requirements models are coming to Northern California. If you’ll be in the Bay Area January 16, please join the Silicon Valley IIBA when they host Betsy Stockdale, Requirements Architect. Betsy will be presenting “Immediately Improve Your Software Requirements by Implementing Visual Models.” If business analysts give developers a …
Choosing the right software requirements models for the specific demands of your project is very important. Seilevel’s quick models look-up grids can help – to use them, download our ZIP file of the RML® model templates through O’Reilly here: http://examples.oreilly.com/9780735667723-files/. The package includes 34 templates and stencils (Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Word, …
A recent and massive ERP software project failure ($1 Billion US) made me wonder…what issues may there have been for the Business Analyst organizations involved? For the the software requirements definition process? I posted my questions, and a link to “What went wrong? U.S. Airforce blows $1 billion on failed …
Joy had a very full room for her presentation “Using Business Objectives to Kill Scope and Launch Better Products” at this week’s BBC in Florida, so we urge those going to Better Software East to be there early! Joy will present two different sessions at Better Software East in Orlando …
