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Top 5 Reasons Organizations Should Support Certifications
Agile, Business Analysis, Certification, Project Management, Watermark Learning

Top 5 Reasons Organizations Should Support Certifications

Originally published in PM Times on April 25, 2016. There will always be a debate about certifications and whether organizations should support them. Some feel they are an essential and growing part of professional life. Others feel a credential does not make a practitioner a better business analyst, Agilist, or project manager. Both sides have a

A Project Managers Guide to Use Cases Part 3
Agile, Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Use Cases, Use Cases, Watermark Learning

A PM’s Guide to Use Cases Part 3: Use Case Narratives

Originally published in PM Times on December 8, 2015. As promised, this is the fifth article in our modeling series and the third on use cases. We’ll start with a short summary of the main concepts covered previously. SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS ARTICLES Here are the highlights of the requirements modeling articles written to date: To get

What's New in our CBAP v3 Training Materials
Business Analysis, CBAP, CCBA, Certification, Watermark Learning

What’s New in our CBAP v3 Materials

Watermark Learning has started launching new CBAP v3 materials prior to IIBA’s changeover of the v3.0 exams in September. The new BABOK 3.0 has new certification levels, changes to most Knowledge Areas, and the addition of 16 new techniques. The BA Core Concept Model™ (BACCM) and an all-new section containing five perspectives on Business Analysis has also been added. With that

A Project Managers Guide to Use Cases Part 2
Agile, Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Use Cases, Use Cases, Watermark Learning

A PM’s Guide to Use Cases Part 2: Use Case Diagrams Explained

Originally published in PM Times on November 10, 2015. This is the third article in our requirements modeling series and the second article in our use cases series. We had promised that in future articles we would show examples of use case diagrams, explain how to build them, and describe why we should create use case

A Project Managers Guide to Requirements Modeling Part 2
Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Watermark Learning

A PM’s Guide to Requirements Modeling Part 2: Concurrent Requirements Modeling

Originally published in PM Times on March 30, 2015. This article is the second in a series on requirements modeling with the emphasis on why PMs should care about modeling requirements. In our first article, we spoke generally about models, the benefits of modeling requirements, and introduced the relationship between the iterative nature of eliciting requirements

Realizing Value the Latest Trends
Agile, Business Analysis, Project Management, Watermark Learning

Realizing Value – The Latest Trend or Here to Stay?

Originally published in PM Times as 2 parts on February 22, 2016 (Part 1) and March 7, 2016 (Part 2). In January, we published our annual article about the seven trends in business analysis, project management, and agile. If we examine these trends, we see that they have one thing in common—they are all about value. We

A Project Managers Guide to Requirements Modeling Part 1
Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Watermark Learning

A Project Manager’s Guide to Requirements Modeling – Part 1

Originally published in PM Times on March 17, 2015. We often get asked how project managers (PMs) justify allowing enough time to model requirements on their projects. These PMs complain that although they agree that requirements modeling has huge benefits, they have a hard time justifying the amount of time it takes. This article opens a

Business Analysis Toolkit Models Part 2
Business Analysis, Requirements Analysis, Watermark Learning

BA Toolkit: Top Models for Complete Requirements Analysis Webinar Q&A – Part 2

Thank you to everyone who attended the “BA Toolkit: Top Models for Complete Requirements” webinar, hosted by Elizabeth Larson, PMP, CBAP, CSM, PMI-PBA. If you missed it or would like to review, check out the recording. There were so many really wonderful, thought-provoking questions on the BA Toolkit: Top Models for Complete Requirements webinar that I decided there was too