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Business Analysis Templates, Software Development Templates

What’s the Difference Between Business Architecture and IT Architecture?

Posted on by Anthony James
08
Apr

If you’re new to IT, especially business analysis, it’s easy to confuse the two.
After working in both business and technical roles, I’ve observed the interactions between business architecture and IT architecture.
For me, business architecture focuses on aligning an organization’s strategic goals, processes, and capabilities with its overall vision.

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Business Analysis Templates, How to Write

How to Decompose Atomic Requirements into Better User Stories

Posted on by Anthony James
27
Mar

When coaching product managers, I help them identify complex requirements and decompose them into atomic requirements. That is, requirements which cannot be decomposed any further. As it’s not unusual for newly minted product managers to blend multiple requirements into a single user story, I’ll prepare a checklist which they can refer to when drafting their requirements.

If you work in an Agile or Scrum environment, you might find the ‘flexible’ nature of the sprint/epic/releases can undermine your project estimates. If that’s the case, consider using the following guidelines to identify atomic requirements, which you can then convert into easier to estimate user stories.

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