Business Analysis Maturity Model

What kind of organizations can gain the most value from the BAMM?

The need for the BAMM and a business specification-centric approach is most acutely recognized in organizations that deliver complex products and services to the marketplace through highly automated processes that require information technology support. These types of organizations often participate in highly competitive marketplaces that require increased innovation and agility to differentiate themselves among their competitors.

 

What is the primary purpose of the BAMM?

The BAMM presents an objective lens for measuring how people and an organization progresses their business specification competency through mastery of techniques and increased acquisition of knowledge.

 

What are the benefits of the BAMM?

The Business Analysis Maturity Model provides a basis for organizations to examine themselves and evaluate their current situation against a well-understood progression. The BAMM delivers several benefits:

• Organizations can use it as a basis for assessing the maturity of their business analysis capability.

• Organizations can use it as a guidebook for planning how they might go about improving their business analysis capability.

• The BAMM can be used as a way of initiating dialogue about the role of the Business Analyst within an organization and possible organizational efforts that might be required to support increasing the sophistication of the organization’s business analysis capabilities.

 

How can an organization move up the various levels of the maturity model?

Progression includes incremental adoption of a business specification-centric approach that increases the maturity of an organization’s ability to effectively create and manage business specifications.

Is the BAMM an IT-centric or business-centric model?

The BAMM is technically agnostic and is a business focused maturity model.

 

What other aspects do organizations need to consider when adopting the BAMM as a road map?

The BAMM alone isn’t sufficient for organizations to be able to achieve the benefits associated with the higher levels defined by it. Much of the effort that is involved in moving upward through the maturity model involves increasing the skill levels of individuals within an organization. Skill development is best accomplished with a combination of training to establish a common set of base knowledge and mentoring to help build mastery of the skills for key individuals that can provide a core set of leaders within the organization. The combination of a vision based upon the BAMM along with an appropriate program of training and mentoring are the essential ingredients in helping an organization capture the organizational agility and cost benefits that lie within the higher levels of the maturity model.