Resources
White Papers
The BAMM
With organizations giving high priority to maturing their business analysts’ skills, opportunities exist to reflect on the maturity of today’s business analysis best practices and their relation to an organization’s capabilities. A business analysis maturity model is helpful to organizations as they work to increase business analysis capabilities in ways that directly impact their bottom-line.
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The New Value of the Business Analyst
Today’s business analyst is expected to do much more than just document business requirements and perform rudimentary analysis tasks. The BA is now equipped with the skills and tools required to thoroughly express the requirements for a new system to be built (or a legacy system to be enhanced) without any loss of business vision, intended business behavior of the system, business policies to be observed and user experience to be realized.
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Business Engineering and the Role of Business Rules
This chapter of the recent book, Business Rules Revolution, outlines an integrated approach that works to obliterate the old business/IT divide and bring the business back into direct control of its business specifications for increased business agility and reduce IT rework.
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Elevating the Role of the Business Analyst
This white paper discusses the increased pressures on today’s business analysts and introduces the concept of a business analysis framework and related components. It ties this new framework approach for business analysis with the need to have a maturity model to help organizations progress towards business level specifications development.
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Pre-recorded A/V Presentations
A Quick Walk-through of the Five Levels of the Business Analysis Maturity Model
Maturity models have gained currency as a standard way of describing a series of stages that organizations pass through as they become more capable in the maturity model’s domain of practice. To date, most progress has been realized with these kinds of IT-centric models. However, as we move to the inside-out business specification-centric approach, what is needed is a maturity model that addresses the key intersection point between business and technology. The BAMM is intended to address this area.
Learning Objectives
- What is the Business Analysis Maturity Model (BAMM)
- What are the critical focal points of each of the five stages of business specification-centric business analysis maturity
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A Detailed Look at the Business Analysis Maturity Model
With organizations giving high priority to maturing their business analysts’ skills, opportunities exist to reflect on the maturity of today’s business analysis best practices and their relation to an organization’s capabilities. A business analysis maturity model is helpful to organizations as they work to increase business analysis capabilities in ways that directly impact their bottom-line.
Learning Objectives
- Why is the BAMM necessary and how does it relate to an organization's bottom-line
- What are the five stages of business analysis maturity for an organization
- What is the business value proposition for increased business analysis capability
- What are the required elements and what does a roadmap look like for an organization to progress its business analysis capabilities
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Building a Business Analyst Area of Competency
What are the skills and organizational aspects of necessary to develop a Business Analysis Area of Competency within an organization? Various aspects of an AoC will be discussed, including onboarding processes, skills building, mentoring, integration into the SDLC and approaches to capture metrics.
Learning Objectives
- How is a Business Analyst Area of Competency different than a PMO-based Business Analyst Center of Excellence
- What are the components that make up a successful Business Analyst Area of Competency
- What are the stages of success when rolling out a Business Analyst Area of Competency
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Moving from Functional Requirements to System Specifications
Ron Sebor
In a typical requirements effort, the Information Technology group is handed a set of 'requirements' that purport to explain what the system is supposed to do. It's left to the development team to shape those requirements into a coherent solution. This approach leads to applications that are off the mark and projects where requirements never stop changing.
Learning Objectives
- What are the problems BAs encounter when developing just functional requirements
- What are examples of business behavior can be captured in specifications
- How does a specification approach change the collaboration between the BA, business users and software implementers
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Making Use Cases Work: A Business Analyst's Perspective
David Heidt
This webcast focuses on how to formalize the structure of a use case to help drive out the ambiguities and inconsistencies that riddle typical narrative use cases. It also outlines how to integrate the use cases perspective with both business driven specifications elements such as business process models and business rules models as well as IT driven specification elements such as user interface maps and service interfaces. The presenters explain how a structured approach to use case definitions can help organizations move beyond the limits imposed by typical use case approaches.
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