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The Role of Business Analysts in Agile Software Development

Project Management Planet — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:00:52 +0000

As companies transition to Agile and Scrum to manage their software development projects, how does this affect the work of business analysts? Nancy Nee, VP Global Product Strategy at ESI International, shares her opinion on the role of business analysts in Agile software development projects. She explains their relationships with...

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Reviewing Software Requirements for Testability

Project Management Planet — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:18:42 +0000

Modern software development approaches like Agile and Scrum support a strong collaboration between all member of the software development team, software testers and business analysts included. Even if you don’t use a method like Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) or Specification by Example, checking the fact that you will be able to...

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Building With the Right Scope in Software Development

Project Management Planet — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:59:48 +0000

In this article from chapter 4 of Specification by Example, author Gojko Adzic explains how to work together with business users to come up with the right stories and that the key idea to achieve that is not to start with user stories but with business goals and derive the...

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Impact of Bad Requirements in Software Development Projects

Project Management Planet — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:00:40 +0000

Good requirements are the foundation of software development projects. It is more important to “do the right thing” than to “do things right”. The book “So You Want To Be A Scrum Master?” discusses the impact of poor requirements in software development and why people are the main issue. Poor...

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Certifications for Business Analysis and Software Requirements

Project Management Planet — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:12:14 +0000

Certifications are helpful to improve professional careers. Various business analysis and software requirements organizations exist that offers both a community for sharing knowledge and certifications opportunities, similarly than the Project Management Institute provides for project management domain with its PMP program. This article presents a list of business analysis and...

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Specification by Example

Project Management Planet — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:49:02 +0000

Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic is a book that provides a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure the right product is delivered effectively. This book about software requirements is based on the research of 30 teams that implemented 50 projects. The first part...

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User Stories for Both Requirements and Testing

Project Management Planet — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:04:13 +0000

User stories are a technique taken from the agile development playbook that can easily be applied in traditional systems development and maintenance. User stories help you document needs in a structured way, from the users’ perspective. They are a good basis for test cases, so as to support integrated requirements...

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Book Review: Mastering the Requirements Process

Project Management Planet — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:30:13 +0000

In an era where managing requirements could seem to be limited to writing user stories with a “as a … I want … so that” format on a post-it, it could be strange to publish a 500 pages book on this topic. However, people that want to improve their knowledge...

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Strategy Maps: Connecting Roadmaps to the Bigger Picture

Project Management Planet — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:43:33 +0000

This presentation explains what strategy is, how to visualize it and importantly how to visualize your competitors’ strategy, so you visualize options in time, in context and can translate this to roadmaps suitable for agile teams to iterate on and plan to an appropriate horizon. There are at least 12...

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Introduction to Software Requirement Analysis

Project Management Planet — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:37:18 +0000

Requirements gathering and analysis is an important activity in software development projects. In this article, Sreerekha Bakaraju provides an introduction to requirement analysis with a list of important things to consider when gathering software requirements. Author: Sreerekha Bakaraju The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a process and is a...

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