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Moving to www.usability-architect.com
Dear followers I have decided to continue blogging on www.usability-architect.com. Regards Thomas
Posted by Thomas Memmel on Advanced User Interface Specification
Posted on 6/11/2009
BAs show value during a tough economy
Things are challenging this year and everyone is working to show their value. Business analysis skills provide the opportunity for us to provide excellent value to our organizations. As you start each...
Posted by Barbara Carkenord on Thoughts from a Couple of CBAPs
Posted on 2/19/2009
Hey You, Get Off My Yard: Why Old People Shouldn't Be Allowed To Write Book Reviews About Social Networking
The post appeared originally at Usability Counts. Now, I'm not under 30, thank god, but this article came across the RSS wire. The original review was written by Richard Bernstein, a New York Times b...
Posted by Patrick Neeman on Usability Counts By Patrick Neeman
Posted on 1/17/2009
Where are you storing requirements?
Most BAs don't have access to sophisticated requirements management tools. We are keeping our requirements in MS office documents. I am interested in where you are storing all of these documents. Shar...
Posted by Barbara Carkenord on Thoughts from a Couple of CBAPs
Posted on 11/16/2008
Live from RE'08: Learning Research
This morning, Mike and I attended the Learning Research track where we heard 3 research papers presented on the topic of learning. The first paper was Requirements Engineering Education in the 21st C...
Posted by Joy Beatty on Requirements Defined: A Software Requirements Blog By Seilevel
Posted on 9/22/2008
Requirements definitions for the DEATH STAR
Hell, Nobody ever posts replies to my blog here.  Maybe I am too boring. What if I try something new, a new angle.  Something more interactive.  Something that will appeal to all the...
Posted by Craig Brown on Better Projects - Catalyze Edition
Posted on 9/15/2008
Live from RE’08: Learning Days for Us: Requirements Engineering and Education
Yesterday was the Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET08) workshop and today was the beginning of the main conference. So when I say they were “learning days”, I mean more...
Posted by Joy Beatty on Requirements Defined: A Software Requirements Blog By Seilevel
Posted on 9/11/2008
Catalyze Blogroll
The "A" List
Current Wisdom
Catalyze Current Wisdom by Tom Humbarger is a blog for business analysts, usability professionals and anyone who defines and designs software or websites - and will cover a variety of topics including: requirements, prototyping, design, usability, interaction design and user experience. Tom's external blog is called Musings.
Posts: 105 Last Updated: 7/30/2008
Thoughts from a Couple of CBAPs
Thoughts from a Couple of CBAPs The Thoughts from a Couple of CBAPs Blog will cover all topics that may have some interest to us as Business Analysts.
Posts: 16 Last Updated: 2/19/2009
IxD: The Art of Interaction Design
At the core of every web site and Web 2.0 application is the design of the presentation layer. Get it right and the user is empowered. Get it wrong and the experience is marginal and frustrating at best. If you are an interaction designer, please join in the conversation -- Charlie Kreitzberg.
Posts: 16 Last Updated: 7/21/2008
How to Work
How to Work. Lessons learned. Knowledge revealed.
Posts: 3 Last Updated: 1/20/2008
Better Projects - Catalyze Edition
Better Projects - Catalyze Edition by Craig Brown is a blog with a focus on quality, success and teamwork. Want to know what success looks like? Want to read up on the Carnival of Business Analyst series? This is the blog for you.
Posts: 17 Last Updated: 9/15/2008
Momentum
product management tips and techniques, new solutions to old problems, alternative views, business philosophy, and the tactical issues that I face on a daily basis as an product manager in the field
Posts: 13 Last Updated: 4/27/2008
IIBA Senior Leadership Blog
The IIBA Senior Leadership Blog is written by the executive officers to spread the word about issues relating to our organization and business analysts. The posts in Catalyze are copied from the original blog at http://blog.theiiba.org/.
Posts: 42 Last Updated: 7/8/2008
Advanced User Interface Specification
Advanced User Interface Specification by Thomas Memmel is a blog that covers topics related to user interface requirements engineering and specification practice. The blog shall provide a basis for ongoing discussion and exchange of results in HCI resaerch.
Posts: 11 Last Updated: 6/11/2009
Up and Comers
thought catalyst
thought catalyst - just another blog @ catalyze...with the simple philosophy that all of life is experience.
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Posts: 12 Last Updated: 9/24/2007
GrayMatter
Gray Matter... Ponderings on the world of UX
Posts: 22 Last Updated: 6/28/2008
Nouns and Verbs - What's in Your Box?
Nouns and Verbs - What's in Your Box?, Stephen Clark's iRise blog collects, categorizes, types and subtypes topics related to requirements engineering, requirements management, organizational transformation and pursuit of all things clear, concise and unambiguous.
Posts: 18 Last Updated: 2/16/2008
Business Analysis Insight
The Business Analysis Insight blog discusses the evolution of the business analyst role and the BABOK.
Posts: 5 Last Updated: 12/9/2007
The Product Development Blog
Welcome! The Product Development Blog exists to provide business analysts that serve primarily in product development vs. IT/software development industries a place to discuss issues and exchange ideas. To clarify, I define a product as physical goods and systems designed, manufactured, and sold into consumer, industrial, medical, etc markets. These goods may or may not have a supporting software or business service component. Please read my Welcome letter for a more in-depth description of where I hope to take this blog. Thanks for joining!
Posts: 1 Last Updated: 7/11/2007
The Newbies
User Experience and Cognitive Engineering
The goal is to exchange ideas with colleagues and share some insight from my practice
Posts: 2 Last Updated: 12/4/2007
Emergence of the IT Business Analyst
Through this blog, I am trying to portray the evolution of IT Business Analyst role with a historical flavor and technical details. The contents in this blog, excluding the external links mentioned in this blog, are my personal interpretation of some information freely available to all.
Posts: 3 Last Updated: 9/9/2007
Communication, usability, eye tracking and all things helping people
This blog will help you to learn how to improve IT project communications, integrate usability into the project process and generally how to make technology useful for people.
Posts: 2 Last Updated: 3/11/2008
Human Experience Design
This blog focuses on the purposeful merger of technology to the human experience
Posts: 0 Last Updated:
Usability Counts By Patrick Neeman
Usability, User Experience, Social Media, Content Management
Posts: 2 Last Updated: 1/17/2009
I WANT TO FIND PEOPLE JOBS!
I am the VP of Marketing and BD for a company called 11th Hour. We're a staffing agency in LA...and we really want to be the best agency out there...Specifically changing the face of staffing as we know it. I believe that through this online community I can not only help change the world I strive to but also help the people on this site, find work and find a voice. In a nutshell, what I am trying to do... 1) Get feedback to be a better agency to help my candidates 2) Help advocate telecommuting/offsite contract work 3) Offer new services nobody else is. 4) Provide a more personal touch to recruiting 5) Get more money for my candidates and charge my clients less.
Posts: 1 Last Updated: 5/13/2008
Requirements Defined: A Software Requirements Blog By Seilevel
Seilevel is a professional services company that creates software requirements documents for Fortune 1000 companies. Leading companies turn to us to identify and delineate their needs because of a proven approach to software requirements that saves you development dollars and maximizes resources. Seilevel gets the requirements right, so our clients get their software right.
Posts: 13 Last Updated: 9/22/2008
Ed Taaffe's Blog
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Posts: 0 Last Updated:
The Dinosaurs
Executive Perspectives
This blog will focus on topics that are top-of-mind with both business and IT executives as they relate to the definition and design of business software.
Posts: 4 Last Updated: 9/14/2007
Facilitation TIPS (Tools, Insight, Planning, and Skills.)
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Posts: 1 Last Updated: 8/23/2007
Silicon Valley
The Silicon Valley blog covers what every product manager, user experience professional and business analyst should know...from the angle of Silicon Valley, California.
Posts: 3 Last Updated: 4/22/2008
The Design of Big Things
Some are labeling this the Age of design. Ranging from Google, iPods, Web 2.0, bio-fuel vehicles… to the overrunning scourge of Reality TV DYI shows… design is a buzz permeating all levels of our culture and society. The Design of Big Things blog will focus on how design is applied to parts of bigger solutions that later lead to innovation for the many (as opposed to esoteric, more specialized design concepts that never are meant to reach the mainstream user population).
Posts: 1 Last Updated: 6/8/2007
Engaging designs – Should they be instruction or interaction?
The blog is all about do we really need instructions or interaction. I would like to get the viewers thoughts.
Posts: 1 Last Updated: 11/21/2007