For many years, James Robertson taught the workshop "Mastering the Requirements Process", based on the Volere template developed over years by James and Suzanne Robertson. Now that James Archer has followed in his footsteps we took some time to talk ...
In 2009 I hired a building contractor to build a house. Together with an architect and the contractor I worked out the features. We wanted a basement, we carefully picked the materials, the location of the windows, the placement of the rooms, the bat...
I Want . . . Suppose you are a business analysis trying to discover the local government’s requirements for clearing snow from roads and footpaths. You ask the road-engineering supervisor for his requirements and he tells you, “We want mo...
Het modelleren met toenemende mate van detaillering, de analyse en het (her)ontwerp van business processen. Praktische training met methoden, technieken, valkuilen en best practices door dé autoriteit op dit terrein, Alec Sharp. Drie intensieve dagen op 10, 11 en 14 april in Utrecht.
From Go to Whoa Christophe wants to buy a new suit to wear to his daughter’s wedding. He wants a dark blue suit with a waistcoat – and he wants it to make him look as elegant as possible. He wants the suit to be tailored especially for hi...
Op 2 december 2015 organiseert Adept Events een hands-on workshop met BPM specialist Christian Gijsels met als titel Business Analyse en Modelleren met Enterprise Architect 12.2. In uw organisatie wordt waarschijnlijk reeds gewerkt met UML, BPMN, DFD...
What are Atomic Requirements? When you have a requirement that is measurable, testable, traceable and detailed enough to define all aspects of a need without further breakdown then you have an atomic requirement. You can think of the atomic requireme...
Alleen als In-house beschikbaarWorkshop met BPM-specialist Christian Gijsels over business analyse, modelleren en simuleren met de nieuwste release van Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect, versie 16.Intensieve cursus waarin de belangrijkste basisfunc...
Multiple Viewpoints A common problem voiced by requirements analysts is: “people don’t tell me their requirements, they tell me a solution to some unstated problem”. This focus on solutions is further complicated when it is mi...
A Combination of Perspectives The previous articles in this series have focused on different views and levels of requirements and the ability to be able to trace between them. Before going further with this theme it is useful to stand back and consid...
Volere contains a structure for discovering and tracking requirements at several different levels. The previous article in this series “Work Scope and Product Scope – Why Both?” covers the difference between the Work/Business/Problem Scope and ...
