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		<title>Madison IIBA follow-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave a presentation on “The Role of the BA in an Agile Environment” at the meeting of the Madison chapter of the IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) on Tuesday 9/15/2009. Because I delivered the presentation like an Agile project, with the audience developing a “product backlog” of topics for me to present in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-functional requirements template</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Use Cases to User Stories, I’ve always struggled with how to treat the non-functional requirements. I haven’t tried it yet, but this article by Ryan Shriver on Qualities and User Stories contains something that looks like it just might work:
Name: A unique name for the quality
Scale: “What” you’ll measure (aka the units of measure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A User Story template for event-driven users</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern software development processes are moving away from legal-document-style “the system shall” requirements to less formal User Stories. Further, software users and buyers are encouraged to write user stories themselves. If they&#8217;re used to being interviewed by a business analyst and then being handed requirements to review, this can rattle them at first.
I often have [...]]]></description>
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