Carnival of Business Analysts #2; The Business Analyst and Quality

Welcome to the September 4, 2007 edition of the Carnival of Business Analysts. Thanks to the many contributors. Thanks also to the people who's posts I have added myself. Without furher do, read on and be educated.

CA presents Hey, where are the bugs anyway? posted at Atlantic Canada's Small Business Blog, saying, "How would you get from “It’s a buggy product” to “Hey, where are the bugs anyway?”"

edithyeung presents Steps You Must Take to Run a Successful Meeting and Say Goodbye to Boring Meetings posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act., saying "Successful meetings don’t happen by accident. It takes serious planning and thinking. With my 10 years experience running thousands of meetings, I have developed a few tips for meeting organizers."

Luke Houghton presents 5 ways to think strategically posted at Luke Houghton, saying, "This article discusses the importance of thinking strategically and illustrates 5 ways this can be done."

jonbab1 presents McDonald's Burgers and High-Quality Business Analysts posted at Jonathan Babock, saying, "The instructor of a training session I recently attended used an analogy that I liked. He asked whether we thought of McDonald’s as a high-quality restaurant. The question drew a few chuckles and, of course, most of us replied that we did not. He then went on to explain that, in fact, McDonald’s is a high-quality restaurant, and here’s why...."

Ben Yoskovitz presents The 4 Immutable Laws of Giving Great Proposals posted at Instigator Blog, saying, "Most projects start with proposals. Here are 4 laws to help you write better ones."

Renata Vincoletto presents > systemcall dot org » Product Development cycle posted at > systemcall dot org, saying, "At the beginning I thought that only small companies had dead locks on the development cycle but after going through several companies, big and smalls, commercial and academical, I see that the problem is everywhere."

Louise Manning presents He who fails to plan, plans to fail. posted at The Human Imprint, saying "How good are you at planning? Are you a thorough planner or the kind of person who thinks on their feet, maybe you are someone that falls somewhere in between?"

evelester presents Tips on making a Home Office Schedule posted at Home Biz Blogger, saying "These are general time management and effectiveness tips suitable for anyone who has to mnage their own time."

As usual CraigBrown has to have get inolved and offers several posts;

• Quality Management: Philosophy posted at Tech Architect, saying, "Quality Management refers to the overall quality philosophy and summarizes the preventative and appraisal quality activities that have been integrated into the project management processes that occur throughout the delivery life cycle."
  
• Software Quality: 10 Success Criteria For Software Development Weblog posted at Software Quality, saying, "QA is much more than Quality Checking. Let's illustrate this with the results from the CHAOS report from the Standish Group."
  
• How to Meet Expectations posted at Cutting's Edge Project Management, saying, "Thomas Cutting talks about meeting client expectations and recommend five key areas to focus on 1. Understand the Business 2. Confirm expectations 3. Verify along the way 4. Horses…rein them in 5. Abuse case testing."
  
• Software Testers – Do we (As)sure Quality? posted at Software Testing Zone - A Blog by Debasis, saying, "Debasis Pradhan writes about how software testing adds quality." Business analysts often participate in software testing at least at the user acceptance level if not moreso.
  
• Kano model and classifying requirements posted here at Better Projects, saying, "Kano's quality framework is a good way to categorise requirements; read more baout mandatory, one dimensional and delightful requirements."
  
• learnsigma posted at LearnSigma, saying, "Rob Thompson does a brief comparison of the ISO9000 quality approach to Six Sigma."
  
• ITIL in a Nutshell IT Leadership TechRepublic.com posted at IT Leadership, saying, "ITIL stands for IT Information Library and it is a framework developed in Britain in the 1980s that addresses service delivery and support of IT services."
  
• Business Analysis - Part 1 (Self Assessment) posted at Canadian IT Managers, saying, "This blog presents some tips for business analysts when preparing to take on a new project. Examples include Learn and use the terminology of the business and Work to make the business a success first and the project a success second."

Lastly Kingsley Tagbo has offerred an article related to the first carival's theme of defining the role and getting into the BA career. He presents How To Become A Business Analyst posted at HOW TO LEARN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FAST OR GET A JOB EASILY.

And so that concludes this edition. Comments on what articles were good and what were not so good would be great so I can work on ensuring good quality.

As for Next Edition: I am thinking I will follow the BABOK themes as carnival topics over the next few months. So, next month's theme; Requirements Planning.

Submit your blog article to the next edition of the Carnival of business analysts using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Project Management
Business Analyst business analysts, blog carnival