Tag Archives: Requirements

Writing Good Requirements Requires Good Writers

by Kristi Dwenger-Bourgeois

As a manager of a team of Analysts, I am privileged to be able to design my own hiring criteria. Fusion gives me an amazing amount of flexibility in this area, allowing me to define my own interview process and …

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Business Analysis in Disguise

by Jan Evans

I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve never fully understood what a Business Analyst (BA) does. I know that’s pretty disturbing, considering I work for a business technology firm.  I’m sure we have dozens of them. I even know a couple. …

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Agile: The New Normal?

by Jan Evans

In the world of digital and software development, where the difference between success and failure can rest on a misplaced character in a single line of code, adherence to process is instrumental. Requirements specification… traceability matrix… discovery…design… development… testing—each deliverable …

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Life is Not Whatnot and It’s None of Your Business

by Kristi Dwenger-Bourgeois

Life is not whatnot and it’s none of your business. – John Hughes, Sixteen Candles Okay, so here’s the thing. Last week, I had a conversation with a colleague about a YouTube video posted by a couple of high school …

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Metrics Overkill

by Fusion Alliance News

As a child growing up in Houston, I was a huge baseball fan. Every night that Nolan Ryan was pitching, I’d lay in bed tuning into the Astros game on the radio; listening to his every pitch (and be a very …

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