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Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt

Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt. Greg Swearingen , PSPO1 Senior Business Analyst/Consultant, QuickSolutions Carole Schwarz IT Process Management/Requirements Capability, Nationwide Insurance Reshma Pathare , CBAP, CSM, PMP, CSQA Business Consultant, Nationwide Insurance

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Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt

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  1. Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt Greg Swearingen, PSPO1 Senior Business Analyst/Consultant, QuickSolutions Carole Schwarz IT Process Management/Requirements Capability, Nationwide Insurance Reshma Pathare, CBAP, CSM, PMP, CSQA Business Consultant, Nationwide Insurance Faye Thompson, JD, PSMI Senior Agile Consultant, CareWorks Tech Facilitator:  Carol C. Fleming, CBAP VP of Technology – IIBA Columbus Chapter Senior Business Analyst, Smart IT

  2. Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt Purpose of session is to present and discuss tools used to assist with business analysis activities: • Greg – Wireframing with PowerPoint and Balsamiq • Carole – IBM Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) and Rational Team Concert (RTC) • Reshma – Trello • Faye – JIRA and SharePoint

  3. Wireframing Overview

  4. Wireframing Search Home Menu What is wireframing? Company Name Page Title Jkjsdkjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Jkjsdkjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Jkjs dkjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Fskdjksjddskj sdjf sdjf sjdfl sdfs ;ldjslkjdf s sdjfjskdjf ;sdjf sfjs fj sfjs dkjf sk sdjfklsjf s jflksj flskj djj slklj df -@twitter

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  6. Wireframing Home Menu Search • A quick sketch • A visual representation of the written requirements Company Name Page Title Jkjsdkjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Jkjsdkjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Jkjsd kjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Fskdjksjddskj sdjf sdjf sjdfl sdfs ;ldjslkjdf s sdjfjskdjf ;sdjf sfjs fj sfjs dkjf sk sdjfklsjf s jflksj flskj djj slklj df -@twitter

  7. Wireframing • All you need with PowerPoint • A collection of icons Home Menu Search Company Name Page Title • For this wireframe • PowerPoint text boxes • Balsamiq icons • Andreas Wulf’s free Windows 8 icons • Christian Naths’ free Redacted font set • Paint.Net free graphics tool Jkjsdkjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Jkjsdkjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Jkjsd kjd Dksjdfksjfsj skdjfdksjds Fskdjksjddskj sdjf sdjf sjdfl sdfs ;ldjslkjdf s sdjfjskdjf ;sdjf sfjs fj sfjs dkjf sk sdjfklsjf s jflksj flskj djj slklj df -@twitter

  8. Wireframing • Considerations • High Fidelity vs. Low Fidelity

  9. Wireframing High Fidelity

  10. Wireframing Low Fidelity

  11. Wireframing • Considerations • High Fidelity vs. Low Fidelity • Your Team • ROI

  12. Wireframing • PowerPoint • Easy to use • PowerStory adds to PowerPoint • Use case story boarding • Balsmiq • Dynamic icons

  13.  Rational Requirements Composer Overview

  14. Rational Requirements Composer -Nationwide Insurance Implementation The Question: How do we improve requirements quality? • Requirements Management • Traceability • Impact Analysis • Scope Management • Dependencies • Build to Run Transition • Requirements Development • Elicitation Techniques • Elaboration • Validation Techniques • Prioritization • Reuse from Run to Plan/Build

  15. Rational Requirements Composer Benefits: Improved Requirements traceability Impact Analysis : Requirement changes have effects on systems and process Visibility into scope coverage/missing requirements

  16. Rational Requirements Composer Benefits: Enables a Business and Application/Asset view of requirements

  17. Rational Requirements Composer Benefits: Reuse

  18. Rational Requirements Composer Benefits: Consistency across Business Units and Enterprise Bonus: Analysts can move across business units without major on boarding

  19. Rational Requirements Composer Benefits: Connects business requirements to agile design requirements Bonus: RTC is tightly integrated, and part of the Rational ALM solution • RRC/RTC is tightly integrated

  20. Rational Requirements Composer Summary of Capabilities • Traceability backwards and forwards • out-of-the box links or create your own • Business Process Diagrams • link from Activity/Step to Use Case or Story • Wireframes • any type of image file • Storyboarding • Progressive UI development • Reviews/Approval process • Suspicious Links notification

  21. Rational Team Concert • Application Release Management • Iterations, Plans, Builds, Releases • Burnup and Burndown, Velocity • Captures the work associated with requirements, development and test • Supports Agile-based practices as well as Waterfall and Iterative • New Integrations allows for Continuous Release & support for DevOps

  22. Trello Overview

  23. Trello - Board

  24. Trello - Adding a Card

  25. Trello - Adding details to a card

  26. Trello - Managing the Board

  27. Trello – Pros and Cons Pros: • Free! Free !! Free!!! • Open to members and non-members • Private or Public Boards (limited to a group of members or anyone) • Natural user interface with Kanban-like ‘look-and-feel’ • Ease of use, visibility and tracking, collaborative (i.e. Keyboard shortcuts, color-coded lists, assign multiple users to cards) • Available on iPhone / Android / Windows • Developer API • Secure SSL/HTTPS connection • Google Drive / Dropbox/Local pc • Add-on features like Calendar view of cards , convert Email into card

  28. Trello – Pros and Cons Cons: • Cards/tasks cannot be assigned to multiple Boards / Projects • Limited email integration • Limited number of labels • No tagging capability • Difficult to move/copy etc. multiple cards • No due dates per tasks, only per card • Checklist are not easily visible inside cards

  29. Trello – Business A/C • $25 per month or $200 per year per organization • Google Apps integration (email / drive / calendar / docs / sheets / slides). • Administrative controls Choose email domains, restrict board visibility, organization admins to manage organization boards • Bulk data export • Observers - board members that can view the board, vote, and comment, but are not able to edit, move, or create cards • Better member control and visibility - more insight into member activity, like de-activating members who leave the org.

  30. JIRA

  31. JIRA - Overview • Suite of tools for capturing, managing and tracking work from idea to Production • Track team activity against planned work • Easy to set up and use, so entire team (including Product Owners and Users) have continual insight into status • Fits into most budgets • Plug-in system, so you pay for the functionality that you use

  32. JIRA – Work Tracking • Allows all Team Members and Users to add bugs/stories/ enhancement requests on the fly • Track all related information, including points estimates, detailed requirements, supporting documentation via attachment, feature identification

  33. JIRA Agile – Backlog Management • fka GreenHopper • Drag-and-drop stories/tasks/ bugs in priority order of customer value

  34. JIRA Agile – Kanban • Slide cards to indicate status • Creates BVC that is instantly updatable

  35. JIRA Agile - Kanban • Set WIP constraints to focus team efforts • Another visual indicator of impacts to schedule

  36. JIRA Agile - Burndown • Calculates Burndown and Velocity • Allows for visual display of scope changes that impacted development pace

  37. JIRA Agile – Additional Metrics

  38. JIRA – Other Considerations • Workflows • Ease of use, visibility and tracking, collaborative • Assign Issue Keys for traceability • Mobile site makes available anywhere • Developer API, with numerous existing plug-ins • Affordability • www.atlassian.com

  39. SharePoint

  40. SharePoint - Overview • Team collaboration tools easily built into a single site, including intranet portals, file management, social networks, websites, site-wide search, and business intelligence • Closely integrated with Office • Interface is familiar • Easily use in conjunction with other Office applications

  41. SharePoint – Group/Project Sites • Create single project site • Knowledge Sharing • Calendar/schedule • Announcements

  42. SharePoint – Document Repository Permissions-based repository which allows for versioning and document preservation

  43. SharePoint – Other Considerations • Ease of use for new users • Highly customizable • Accessible remotely with appropriate setup

  44. Resources & Tools

  45. Resources & Tools • Wireframes Magazine -- wireframes.linowski.ca • Smashing Magazine -- www.smashingmagazine.com • Help Authoring Tools and Techniques forum -- http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/HATT/info • Christian Naths’ free Redacted font -- https://github.com/christiannaths/Redacted-Font -- Redacted Font sdf df ddfsdfs ddfds • PowerStory -- http://power-story.com • Balsamiq -- http://www.balsamiq.com • Trello – www.trello.com (there is also a blog and a strong user community that provides answers to FAQs etc and a forum to post your questions and get responses

  46. Resources & Tools • Andreas Wulf’s free icons for PowerPoint -http://designmodo.com/windows-8-wireframe/ • Cucumber - http://www.cukes.info • Cucumber on GitHub - https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber • Axiom open source - build custom projects • MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) plug in for Excel can help with requirements traceability; can view all team members' activities in one place

  47. Resources & Tools • Red Mine - requirements plug-ins for storyboards; issue tracker • Basecamp/Highrise/Campfire – http://37signals.com/ • Pivotal Tracker - agile PM tool; iteration manager - track stories thru development process • Mind Mapping - iThoughts HD for Apple; MindJet; Xmind;

  48. Resources & Tools • http://www.modernanalyst.com/ • Mingle - www.thoughtworks.com • Rally Software - http://www.rallydev.com/ • Prezzi - http://prezi.com/

  49. Questions/ Comments

  50. Accessorizing Your BA Toolbelt Panelists Reshma Pathare, CBAP, CSM, PMP, CSQA Business Consultant rpathare@cohaa.org Carole Schwarz IT Process Management - Requirements Capability schwarc6@nationwide.com Greg Swearingen,PSPO1 Senior Business Analyst / Consultant gregs@gergman.com Faye Thompson, JD, PSMI Senior Agile Consultant fthompson@cohaa.org

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