Today we have a PMO (Project Management Office) in the PM (Project Management) domain, is there an equivalent PMO name in the BA world?
mbrault wrote Today we have a PMO (Project Management Office) in the PM (Project Management) domain, is there an equivalent PMO name in the BA world?
In the Business Analysis world, there isn't a direct equivalent to a PMO but there are organizations who are beginning to centralize the business/systems analysis function. Many of these are called: Business Analysis Group, Business Analysis Team, Enterprise Analysis Group, etc.
From a collaboration and standards perspective, there seems to be momentum towards creating communities for business analysts within an organization such as:
Hope this helps!
Adrian
Here's one more great article:
Three Good Reasons to Initiate a BA Center of Excellence
And here is the related PDF poster showing the various levels of maturity for organizing BAs (towards something like a PMO):
Poster: Stages of development for BA Centers of Excellence (COE)
BA Center of Excellence is becoming the new buzzword.
Here is a PDF we have relating to the concept
http://www.seilevel.com/wp-content/uploads/17x11_Seilevel_BA_COE_122011.pdf
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