David Wright

Articles by David Wright

The Business Analyst and Project Management (Part 3 of a series)

With one exception (described later), I believe (know!) that having one person be both the PM and BA on project is a bad thing…The...

The Business Analyst and Testing (part 2 of a series)

Testing, Testing, Testing… somebody’s gotta do it… and that’s not a joke.How do I tackle this? My first thought is of other Business Analysts...

Business Analyst

After spending more than 20 years a Business Analyst in a few different companies, I am now working as Consultant. I am enjoying the...

The new Business Analysis BenchMark report

This year’s Business Analysis Benchmark report has been published, asurvey on the impact of  mature requirements management. I always findit a good read, and...

Ah, Software

Still my favorite two quotes about what we do every day:“We need to know the fundamentals and formulas by which softwarebehaves. What are the...

It

Last post I described both the development/maintenance methodologyand the project management methodology. It is the planning of theproject where the two intersect.The prime PM...

It

Delivering an IT solution is still a very complicated activity(becoming actively complex if it takes too long), and will likely be sofor some time...

The IT Team: ratio of Analysts, Developers, Testers

Rule of Thumb: One Architect/Analyst can generate enough work for two Developers and one Tester, structure your project teams in this ratio.Your Business Analysts...

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