Tag Archives: Business Analysis

Off Topic: Complexity Awareness in the Wild

Posted on 2013 December 14 by modelpractice

On companies, software solutions, and what a business analyst can do for them – if they let him. Continue reading →

Posted in Software_Engineering | Tagged Business Analysis, Business Analyst, Complexity, complexity awareness, computational thinking, informatics, phone book, profession, rant, requirements engineer, software, structural thinking, structure | Leave a comment

Word Problems they don’t teach you in School

Posted on 2012 August 6 by modelpractice

You are in school or university, and wanna know how real life biz looks like? Here’s a little impression by the means of word problems: say you have a little business that offers solving word problems … Continue reading →

Posted in Requirements, Software_Engineering | Tagged Business Analysis, consulting, customer, education, elicitation, mathematical word problem, Mathematics, problem solving, Requirements Engineering, sales, school, theory and practice, university, word problem | 4 Comments

Lecture Notes on Model Thinking III

Posted on 2012 February 14 by modelpractice

Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture Intro, Part 4: “Using and Understanding Data”: The lesson today is actually not in the course, it’s more about the course … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstract Thinking, Model Thinking | Tagged abstraction, bullet point, Business Analysis, dotted list, Lecture, Lecture Notes, meta, model, model thinking, Modelling, Page, Scott E Page, Scott Page, Thinker, thinking | 2 Comments

Lecture Notes on Model Thinking II

Posted on 2012 February 12 by modelpractice

Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture Intro, Part 3: “Thinking more clearly”: This part points out that modelling is about naming the parts that are relevant to the purpose of the model … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstract Thinking, Model Thinking | Tagged abstraction, Business Analysis, communication, Complexity, equilibrium, Lecture, Lecture Notes, model, model thinking, Modelling, Page, Scott E Page, Scott Page, Thinker, thinking | 8 Comments

Model Transformation in Analysis

Posted on 2011 May 6 by modelpractice

An analyst has two main ways of making use of Model Transformation in requirements analysis: applying rules to models and keeping views consistent. Continue reading →

Posted in Software_Engineering | Tagged analysis, Analysis Model, BPMN, Business Analysis, Business Engineering, Data Model, Datamodel, Model Transformation, modeling, Modelling, Process Engineering, Requirements, Requirements Analysis, State Machine, UML | Leave a comment

Reader Acceptance of Models

Posted on 2011 March 21 by modelpractice

Modeling trade-off: new language to learn, but easy to use the power of graphical notation. Continue reading →

Posted in Software_Engineering | Tagged abstraction, analysis, Aris, BPM, BPMN, Business Analysis, Diagram, ERM, Language, model, modeling, Requirements, Requirements Engineering, State Machine, SysML, UML | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Business Analysis

Off Topic: Complexity Awareness in the Wild

Word Problems they don’t teach you in School

Lecture Notes on Model Thinking III

Lecture Notes on Model Thinking II

Model Transformation in Analysis

Reader Acceptance of Models

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