David Wright

Articles by David Wright

Agile is Fragile

Recent experience at a client showed me that Agile can be successful for a project, but maintaining a level of success across projects and...

Thoughts on Consulting #2 – if the Consultant says it, it must be right…

Thirty years in IT, 28 not as a consultant.If you work in IT at a typical company, you may have had some good ideas,...

Thoughts on being a consultant…

Since 1979, I was a regular IT employee of the organizations I joined and left up until early 2008. “Consulting” to others in the...

Requirements Consulting: When clients can’t describe their business process, for lack of Product Definition

I have been running into more cases where a project team is tasked with eliciting functional requirements to support a business process that is...

The Business Analyst and Business Architecture (postscript to the series)

My posts up to now have been around roles played on a project, but a recent comment from a fellow BA referred to Business...

The Business Analyst and ??? (End of a Series), plus: want to find BAs who test.

I believe I have addressed all the major types of work not related to Requirements that are often associated with the Business Analyst. Some...

The Business Analyst and Applications (Part 5 of a Series)

A comment on my last post reminded me about another aspect of the BA job/title, that being the job ads for BAs with experience...

The Business Analyst and the Business Domain (Part 4 of a Series)

Short and Simple: The Business Analyst is not the Business Expert, is not the Subject Matter Expert (SME) – the Business Analyst cannot create...

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