Consultant at Equal Experts
Ilze Koning
Business analysis and solution architecture. I help business and engineering teams understand each other, and turn complex problems into clear requirements and systems people enjoy building.
Approach
How I work
“Prefer data to calculations, and calculations to actions.”
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Data first
Understand the people, the domain and the information before deciding anything.
Stakeholder mapping → -
Clear rules
Turn intent into explicit, testable requirements that business and engineering read the same way.
Requirements with EARS → -
Then action
Design products that engineers enjoy building and customers love using.
Hacking robustness diagrams →
Notebook
Recent writing
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Being a Generalist in Tech
Why breadth is its own kind of expertise, and why the industry's obsession with specialisation misses it.
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Stakeholder Mapping: The Wild West
A stakeholder mapping tool inspired by the host attribute matrix in Westworld.
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Building a Requirements Similarity Analyzer
Applying data, calculations and actions to build a tool that finds similar requirements across documents.