Adoption

The Business Analysis Framework

Moving Towards Business Solution Specifications

The process of maturing an organization’s business analysis capabilities involves adopting and building mastery of a framework that defines linkages and dependencies between the concepts that the Business Analyst will be required to make use of. The Business Analysis Framework provides structured techniques for enhancing an organization’s ability to develop requirements—detailed requirements that represent a Business Solution Specification with defined touch points to IT architecture and design. The framework provides a multi-perspective approach that emphasizes that templates don’t themselves have any inherent value.

The Business Analysis Framework has evolved over the last decade within large organizations with significant challenges managing business and software change. A proven approach that has been successfully followed by organizations, The Business Analysis Framework provides a formal definition on how to relate business specification elements. It is an essential ingredient that helps an organization develop a comprehensive vision of what a fully mature business-oriented requirements process entails.

By providing a consistent approach to producing complete business specifications, the Business Analysis Framework provides a path for organizations to make improvements to their time-to-market delivery of services and products while dramatically reducing the costs involved in making business operations and software application changes.

In summary, because the Business Analysis Framework is a larger framework that subsumes existing practices, it can be implemented in combination with organizations existing methodologies. In addition, its concepts can be adapted to a variety of modeling tools in both the business and IT domains.

The Business Analysis Framework is unique because it:

  • Focuses on how to radically reshape an organization’s agility and allow it to create a sustainable competitive advantage.
  • Leverages visual modeling and repositories throughout the business/IT lifecycle.
  • Embraces process orchestration and event-based architectures to support dynamic business behavior.
  • Integrates business rules management into the lifecycle of implementing business and software change.