Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Paul Turner
Debbie Paul Assist Knowledge Development www.assistkd.com Joint editor of Business Analysis
Our aim:
To support professionalism in Business Analysis by providing: Best practice techniques Pragmatic advice Additional references
Process Improvement
Scope
IT Improvement
Maturity
Range of competencies
Competencies of a Business Analyst
Business knowledge
Techniques
Key techniques
Business analysis Programme management Project management Business process testing Change implementation management Organisation design and implementation Benefits management
Relationship management
Industry Context
The IT profession needs to move from its traditional role of technical solution supplier to become a proactive business transformation partner.
Colin Thompson, BCS deputy chief executive and programme director for the BCS professionalism in IT programme. April 2006
Business
BA
Suppliers
Project Design
Assess characteristics & decide approach and resources needed to deliver business outcomes
Change Management
Past & current
IT CHANGE
IT CHANGE
BUSINESS CHANGE
As opposed to Mental Intelligence: Capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. Measured by Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Hearts
Emotional Intelligence
Minds
Logically right. Good strategy Traditional position for IT projects High
Low
Mental Intelligence
Summary
BA skills need to develop as a result of:
Outsourcing Desire for ever greater IT/Business Alignment
What is Agile?
In the late 1990's several methodologies emphasized: close collaboration between developers and business experts; face-to-face communication (as more efficient than written documentation); frequent delivery of new deployable business value; tight, self-organizing teams; ways to work such that the inevitable requirements churn was not a crisis. Early 2001 saw a workshop in Snowbird, Utah, USA, where various originators and practitioners of these methodologies met to figure out just what it was they had in common. They picked the word "agile" for an umbrella term and crafted the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, whose most important part was a statement of shared values:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
www.agilemanifesto.org
What is Agile?
While interest in agile methodologies has blossomed in the past few years, its roots go back more than a decade. Teams using early versions of Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), and adaptive software development (ASD) were delivering successful projects in the early- to mid-1990s
Jim Highsmith Director, Cutter Consortium
Detailed Requirements
Foundations Walls ---------- ---------- Bathroom Kitchen ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------------Jacuzzi Bath ---------Sink -------Flooring Plasma TV Lighting --------Square, pink basin Satin steel taps -----------Pop-up rubber plug Chrome overflow -----------Integrated soap dish Tubular chrome frame Chrome u-bend Chrome waste pipe ------------
Must have
O
Prioritisation M C S M
Group Exercise
Your task: Prioritise the top 20 High-Level requirements for the house youd like to have built, to show at least the Must Have requirements
Facilitated Workshops
A team-based information gathering and decision making technique
OBJECTIVES: Boundaries Decision Commitment Approval
Delivery Deadline
Timebox
Timebox
Timebox
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Modelling Perspectives
WHY
Rationale, ends and means
WHERE
Locations and Network Links
WHO
People and Tasks
WHAT
Data and Relationships
HOW
Processes and Inputs/Outputs
WHEN
Why DSDM?
An agile business analysts charter Recognises the importance of analysis and modelling, where other agile approaches do not specify this.
DSDM Overview
Philosophy 80/20 MoSCoW Prototype 9 Principles Business Focus People, process, technology
DSDM
Guidance Quality and Testing Configuration Management Planning Techniques Risk Facilitated Workshops White Papers Prototyping Modelling Timeboxing
Higher Level:
The Diploma in Business Analysis
And now .
ISEB Professional in Business Analysis
Currently being piloted with 3 employers Part of the ongoing definition of a series of Professional roles Involves: Qualifications in own specialist discipline Qualifications in other supporting disciplines Experience in own discipline Leadership, coaching and mentoring Ethics Interpersonal skills