Business Analyst's Mentor Book Quotes

“Requirements gathering is the most important phase in a software development project. While it is possible to cook bad food from good ingredients, it is not possible to cook good food from bad ingredients. Similarly, although it is possible to build bad-quality software with well-defined requirements, it is impossible to deliver high-quality software with poor requirements even with the best developers.”
― Emrah Yayici, Business Analyst's Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips

“Project manager and business analyst roles have many intersection points. Scope management is one of them. While the project manager is responsible for “project” scope management, the business analysts are responsible for “product” scope management. Project scope is defined as the work that needs to be accomplished to deliver a product with specified features, whereas product scope represents the features of the product to meet the business needs of the project. Therefore, in order to determine the project scope correctly, the project manager should assist business analysts in defining a clear and correct product scope. After business analysts reach an agreement with business units about product scope and prepare the business case or vision and scope document, the project manager should define the project scope on the project charter document.”
― Emrah Yayici, Business Analyst's Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips

“In requirements gathering meetings giving right answers to wrong questions is worse than giving wrong answers to the right questions. Wrong questions mislead the team, generate conflicts, waste project time, and result in failure. Business analysts should prepare simple, objective, and to-the-point questions before these meetings.”
― Emrah Yayici, Business Analyst's Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips

“According to the Project Management Triangle, in an IT project you can only achieve two out of three objectives: Good, Fast, and Cheap.”
― Emrah Yayici, Business Analyst's Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips

“Don’t Exaggerate Problems “It is not that I am so smart, it is just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein.”
― Emrah Yayici, Business Analyst's Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips

“There are no big problems; there are just a lot of little problems.” They should divide problems into smaller parts and resolve them with a bottom-up approach.”
― Emrah Yayici, Business Analyst's Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips

“According to the Project Management Triangle, in an IT project you can only achieve two out of three objectives: Good, Fast, and Cheap. It is almost impossible to achieve three of them at the same time.”
― Emrah Yayici, Business Analyst's Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips