I’ve recently finished an enticing ’Badass BA’ course from IAMPM that covers all necessary techniques for conducting an efficient Discovery.
We worked as a team of BAs (our team is called Balance Cats) with an interesting case. The case included the creation of a software product set for processes automatization of garbage collection, and delivery.
Initially, we were given audio from a Sales manager. We had only a short session with the ’customer representative’ and started working it out. Understandably, we had a lot of disagreements on how to understand the scarce requirements we had, so we ended up creating rather conflicting artifacts.
Though, as the main goal of the course was practice I say we succeeded. I can recommend this course to anyone interested in developing analytical skills, and learning techniques for requirements elicitation & processing 😍
I’ve recently finished another course from IAMPM that covers a Utility Tree Workshop. This practice was designed to elicit non-functional requirements in a form of quality attributes, and scenarios based on the business goals, and functionality (in these workshops we generated requirements in a form of use cases).
The course was essentially a set of workshops that lead us through the technique in practice. Our lectors answered all of our annoying questions with detailed examples, I feel sheer gratitude for their time, and effort 😊
Such practice is essential for almost any project as neglected non-functional requirements often bring major dissatisfaction to customers and huge potential damage to the company image. I highly recommend this course to any Business Analyst, Team / Tech Lead, Project manager, or Architect.