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» Stakeholder Communications - Pictures not Words

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Many people on our Business Analysis workshop ask why we use dataflow diagrams (DFDs). Why not Use Case…or even BPMN? After all DFDs have been around for 20 years, surely the world has moved on? Well, has it? The primary purpose of a business analyst is to communicate – to stakeholders and to solution providers – and when it comes to communication...

» Workflow: Get a glimpse of the bigger picture

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Workflow analysis is an application of systems analysis to examine how the applications and tasks performed in an office or practice interact with each other, as well as with the staff performing them. Workflow software applies these analyses to make sure that the right staff member gets assigned the right task, along with the appropriate documents...

» FEATURED: Eight Competencies a Business Analyst Needs to Know

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Every year, organizations around the world face startlingly high project failure rates. Some research has shown that less than 30 percent of software projects are completed on time and on budget—and barely 50 percent end up meeting their proposed functionality. If you’re a big league baseball player, failing five to seven times out of ten will get ...

» FEATURED: Tracing Corporate Strategy to a Line of Code

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One of the issues high on the agenda of many CIOs is to align IT efforts with the company’s strategic goals. But how you do trace a line of code back to the strategic goal that caused it to be written? If we’re able to do this then, and only then, can it be said that IT is aligned with the business strategy. In most organisations the strategy u...

» Aligning IT to Business Through Architecture

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Over my last two articles, I have laid a foundation for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the enterprise architecture of the globally integrated enterprise and focused on how to define and establish the business side of the enterprise through a well defined business architecture . Before diving into the IT side of the enterprise, this articl...

» Managing Process Architecture and Requirements in a CMMI® based SPI project

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When developing or changing a process, and all its related assets, often the process engineers have to face an important issue: how defining an integrated set of processes so that each process element is designed taking in consideration its relationships with all the other interfacing elements. Together with this issue, we also have the need to ens...

» Process Component Models: The Next Generation In Workflow ?

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Tony Bear says the BPM-folks are from Venus and the WS-folks from Mars. That exactly summarizes a big division in the BPM industry that might not be obvious. The term BPM-folks refers to the people that focus on process modelling. Their starting point is the analysis of procedures that describe how people and systems work together in an organisati...

» Business analysis and SOA part 6 of 6: Service-oriented analysis and service modeling

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In the articles leading up to this final installment in our series, we established relevant business service models and service delivery strategies. These two important parts of an SOA project tie into the first of two processes responsible for producing the actual services. This process is called service-oriented analysis and it represents an impo...

» Business analysis and SOA part 5 of 6: The enterprise service model and agile service delivery

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In part five of our look at how SOA ties into the world of business analysis, we continue the discussion of delivery approaches and common top-down deliverables. We begin by introducing the enterprise service model, a valuable specification that can be derived from the types of enterprise models we covered at the end of Part 4. We then continue by ...

» Business analysis and SOA part 4 of 6: SOA delivery lifecycle and the top-down approach

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Development projects for service-oriented solutions are, on the surface, much like any other custom development projects for distributed applications. Services are designed, developed, and deployed alongside the usual supporting cast of front and back-end technologies. Once you dig a bit deeper under the layers of service-orientation, though, you'l...

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