Workshops with subject matter experts to elicit insights for the discovery phase or requirements for a new solution should follow a disciplined approach described in this slide deck.
Making Workflow Automation Personal: The Next Step in Digital Transformation...Michael Oryszak
True digital transformation requires more than incremental improvements and goes beyond individual projects or processes. To become true digital masters, organizations need to think differently and work to enable their members to rethink everything they do in order to identify opportunities for automation. By addressing the capabilities for enhancing workflow automation as a personalized technology capability, organizations can take a giant leap forward and feed and innovation cycle without any limits. This session will help re-frame the primary focus from large, centralized processes to enhancing individual and team collaborators that can drive their own process automation using a variety of commonly available no-code solutions. We will dive into techniques to educate and grow the organization’s capabilities and also review some of the commonly supported models for measuring the results and ROI.
This document discusses various techniques used in requirements gathering and analysis: focus groups, functional decomposition, interface analysis, interviews, lessons learned process, metrics and KPIs, non-functional decomposition, observation, organizational modeling, and problem tracking. It provides definitions and descriptions of each technique, what each can be used for, advantages and disadvantages. The overall document serves as a reference guide for different analysis methods that can be employed when developing software requirements.
Making Workflow Automation Personal: The Next Step in Digital Transformation...Michael Oryszak
True digital transformation requires more than incremental improvements and goes beyond individual projects or processes. To become true digital masters, organizations need to think differently and work to enable their members to rethink everything they do in order to identify opportunities for automation. By addressing the capabilities for enhancing workflow automation as a personalized technology capability, organizations can take a giant leap forward and feed and innovation cycle without any limits. This session will help reframe the primary focus from large, centralized processes to enhancing individual and team collaborators that can drive their own process automation using a variety of commonly available no-code solutions. We will dive into techniques to educate and grow the organization's capabilities and also review some of the commonly supported models for measuring the results and ROI.
This Texavi presentation walks you through the tools, techniques and methodologies to help you master the art and science of Business Analysis. In this presentation, you will learn the core aspects and essential toolkit for transforming into the New-age Business Analyst!
Requirements Gathering: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?Eugene O'Loughlin
This document summarizes a presentation on requirements gathering. It discusses common problems business analysts face like resistance to sharing information and changing requirements. It also outlines why some projects fail, often due to poor requirements that lack a process orientation or understanding of how users define wants. The presentation recommends strategies like using templates and workshops to involve all departments. It emphasizes that each project is different and lessons learned include negotiating with stakeholders, conducting one-on-one interviews, and getting support from project managers.
This slidedeck from Texavi dwells on the essential tools, methods and techniques for the New-age Business Analyst. It also touches upon the methodologies, notations and software tools and applications to help with the analysis.
My goal with this talk was to provide developers and tech folks with an understanding of requirements gathering. Key concepts and resources that they can use to make their own coding practice better. Part of being a professional coder
Making Workflow Automation Personal: The Next Step in Digital Transformation...Michael Oryszak
True digital transformation requires more than incremental improvements and goes beyond individual projects or processes. To become true digital masters, organizations need to think differently and work to enable their members to rethink everything they do in order to identify opportunities for automation. By addressing the capabilities for enhancing workflow automation as a personalized technology capability, organizations can take a giant leap forward and feed and innovation cycle without any limits. This session will help re-frame the primary focus from large, centralized processes to enhancing individual and team collaborators that can drive their own process automation using a variety of commonly available no-code solutions. We will dive into techniques to educate and grow the organization’s capabilities and also review some of the commonly supported models for measuring the results and ROI.
This document discusses various techniques used in requirements gathering and analysis: focus groups, functional decomposition, interface analysis, interviews, lessons learned process, metrics and KPIs, non-functional decomposition, observation, organizational modeling, and problem tracking. It provides definitions and descriptions of each technique, what each can be used for, advantages and disadvantages. The overall document serves as a reference guide for different analysis methods that can be employed when developing software requirements.
Making Workflow Automation Personal: The Next Step in Digital Transformation...Michael Oryszak
True digital transformation requires more than incremental improvements and goes beyond individual projects or processes. To become true digital masters, organizations need to think differently and work to enable their members to rethink everything they do in order to identify opportunities for automation. By addressing the capabilities for enhancing workflow automation as a personalized technology capability, organizations can take a giant leap forward and feed and innovation cycle without any limits. This session will help reframe the primary focus from large, centralized processes to enhancing individual and team collaborators that can drive their own process automation using a variety of commonly available no-code solutions. We will dive into techniques to educate and grow the organization's capabilities and also review some of the commonly supported models for measuring the results and ROI.
This Texavi presentation walks you through the tools, techniques and methodologies to help you master the art and science of Business Analysis. In this presentation, you will learn the core aspects and essential toolkit for transforming into the New-age Business Analyst!
Requirements Gathering: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?Eugene O'Loughlin
This document summarizes a presentation on requirements gathering. It discusses common problems business analysts face like resistance to sharing information and changing requirements. It also outlines why some projects fail, often due to poor requirements that lack a process orientation or understanding of how users define wants. The presentation recommends strategies like using templates and workshops to involve all departments. It emphasizes that each project is different and lessons learned include negotiating with stakeholders, conducting one-on-one interviews, and getting support from project managers.
This slidedeck from Texavi dwells on the essential tools, methods and techniques for the New-age Business Analyst. It also touches upon the methodologies, notations and software tools and applications to help with the analysis.
My goal with this talk was to provide developers and tech folks with an understanding of requirements gathering. Key concepts and resources that they can use to make their own coding practice better. Part of being a professional coder
Business requirements gathering and analysisMena M. Eissa
Business analysis and requirements management are a key to project success.
This workshop helps candidates perform better based on sharing real life experience with them.
CTO School Meetup - Jan 2013 Becoming Better Technical LeaderJean Barmash
The document summarizes a meetup about becoming a better technical leader. It discusses the role of a CTO and how that role changes as a company grows. It outlines three key skill areas for technical leaders - technical skills, process skills, and leadership/management skills. For each skill area, it provides examples and suggestions for how to improve and resources to consult.
Business process analysis and optimization: A pragmatic approach to business ...Mozammel Hoque
The rapidly changing economic and socio-economic environment has led to think how to keep the business processes continuously optimized in highly uncertain and unexpected markets. This turbulent market situation has been brought two major challenges - Socio-cultural (Behavioral) challenge and Technical challenge (IT). The current industry practice and the academic researchers are trying to get out of this by looking the answer from the technology and business model end: “HOW” to manage the challenges of continuous change concentrating on flexibility and speed, maintainability and scalability, cost. Aftermath of it, there is numerous business process modeling techniques are being proposed by the researchers and the technology industry that well captures both approaches - Quantitative analysis: Objective Approach and Qualitative analysis: Subjective Approach though these approaches have its own drawback. (It is not the purpose of this seminar to enlighten on this drawback.) But, the socio-cultural challenge is ignored though our investigation reveals that Information behavior changes faster than information systems, which has driven us to work on it. Therefore, the aim of this seminar is to demonstrate how socio-cultural factors have significant impact, i.e. WHY IT MATTERS, on the success of business process optimization.
In this advanced business analysis training session, you will learn Enterprise Analysis. Topics covered in this session are:
• Strategic Planning
• Process and Elements
• Zachman Framework
• POLDAT
• Entity Analysis
• Business Architecture
• Key Stakeholders
• SWOT Analysis
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
For more information, click here: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/business-analysis/advanced-business-analyst-training/
In this advanced business analysis training session, you will learn User Stories from Scenarios. Topics covered in this session are:
• What is a Use Case?
• The Purpose of Use Case Analysis
• Managing the Building of Product
• The Basic Development Loop
• Analysis paralysis – how much is enough
• Conceptual model development
• Style Guide development
• Usability testing during agile increments
For more information, click here: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/business-analysis/advanced-business-analyst-training/
3B - How to effectively engage users and managers in IT projects - Richard Co...CFG
This document discusses techniques for effectively engaging users and managers in IT projects. It argues that involving stakeholders is important for project success as human factors strongly impact software development. Specific techniques are presented for each project stage, including establishing a working group to build requirements, using early demos and prototypes to involve users in procurement and implementation, and training managers to facilitate rollout. The document emphasizes informal communication, understanding stakeholder needs, and allowing time for learning and adaptation.
Presented as guest lecturer for SUNY Albany's 636 - Systems Analysis in the Information Environment. The lecture is actuallly an interactive requirements gathering process where I engage the students in creating a product. They act as various stakeholders and I guide them using the slide presentation as a basis for dicussion.
Business Requirements Gathering - Current & Future StateJason Bargent
A simple one page template to gather functional requirements, summarising the current state, what works well, areas for improvement and proposed future state and how it will be implemented at a high level
Seven ways business owners inspire agile teamsMaryann Snider
The document discusses how business owners can inspire agile teams during an agile transition. It provides examples of how business owners at one company held workshops to establish agreements with developers, committed to being responsive and providing feedback, and saw benefits like increased engagement and happier employees. Great business owners are described as flexible, willing to experiment, able to form trusting relationships, negotiate priorities, support team processes, model courage, provide helpful feedback, and know their business domain while trusting the team.
The document provides an overview of advanced business analysis training that covers topics like enterprise modeling, business process modeling, value chain analysis, and linking business and system models. It introduces various modeling techniques and notations for mapping business imperatives, processes, stakeholders, and more. Examples are provided of how to model value chains, business processes using activity diagrams, and properties to specify when analyzing processes.
Business Analyst - Roles & ResponsibilitiesEngineerBabu
Business analysts can benefit business multifold by successfully performing their roles and responsibilities. One of their important jobs is to make the project better understandable for both, the team as well as the client. Read more: https://engineerbabu.com/blog/business-analyst-role-and-responsibilities/
This document provides an overview of managing and implementing change, innovation, and projects. It begins with linking the content to relevant qualification units. It then discusses theories of change management, including models by Lewin, Bridges, and Kotter. Tools for analyzing change such as PESTLE, SWOT, and stakeholder analysis are introduced. Reasons for organizational change and managing resistance to change are explored. The document also covers project management techniques including work breakdown structures, critical path analysis, risk assessment, and Gantt charts. Overall, the document provides a foundation for understanding change management and implementing projects successfully.
Case Against Scaling (Scrum Gathering Berlin)samililja
This document discusses challenges with large-scale software projects and knowledge work. It argues that large size is often due to too much work-in-progress and failure demand from problems like lack of transparency. Attempting agile frameworks at large scale can forget the customer focus. Instead, the document suggests rethinking the questions posed to find ways to reduce size and optimize for customer value delivery through approaches like limiting work-in-progress and removing non-value adding work.
Business Analysis and Business AnalystKuolun Chang
Business analysis involves identifying business needs and solutions to problems. It can involve software development, process improvement, organizational change, or strategic planning. Business analysts analyze organizations, documenting processes and systems to assess business models and technology integration. They identify stakeholders, assist with business cases, plan and monitor projects, clarify issues, prepare documentation and train users. Key skills for business analysts include communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, analysis, visualization, and facilitation. Business analysts investigate goals and issues, analyze information, communicate findings, and evaluate solutions. Backgrounds that can lead to becoming a business analyst include test analyst, project coordinator, administrative roles, and roles with business analysis responsibilities.
Managerial Decentralization in Growth Stage Technology Companies - Dave Litwi...Dave Litwiller
This is the latest installment in the series on functional, corporate and leadership development in high growth, scale-up stage technology businesses.
This piece focuses on how to do managerial decentralization, when a business becomes large enough and diverse enough to benefit from organizing into multiple semi-autonomous divisions or business units.
The document discusses planning for business analyst workshops. It covers selecting the right subject matter experts to participate, getting management support to allocate their time, preparing straw models to guide elicitation, and ensuring workshops are properly facilitated. Effective preparation over two weeks is recommended to build confidence, understand the business, and make the best first impression with workshop participants.
Requirements engineering involves multiple tasks to ensure software engineers understand customer needs. It begins with inception to establish basic understanding, then elicitation gathers requirements from stakeholders. During elaboration, requirements are analyzed and modeled. Negotiation reconciles customer wants with feasibility. Requirements are then specified and validated before being managed throughout the project. The goals are to avoid building the wrong solution and establish a solid foundation for design.
Business requirements gathering and analysisMena M. Eissa
Business analysis and requirements management are a key to project success.
This workshop helps candidates perform better based on sharing real life experience with them.
CTO School Meetup - Jan 2013 Becoming Better Technical LeaderJean Barmash
The document summarizes a meetup about becoming a better technical leader. It discusses the role of a CTO and how that role changes as a company grows. It outlines three key skill areas for technical leaders - technical skills, process skills, and leadership/management skills. For each skill area, it provides examples and suggestions for how to improve and resources to consult.
Business process analysis and optimization: A pragmatic approach to business ...Mozammel Hoque
The rapidly changing economic and socio-economic environment has led to think how to keep the business processes continuously optimized in highly uncertain and unexpected markets. This turbulent market situation has been brought two major challenges - Socio-cultural (Behavioral) challenge and Technical challenge (IT). The current industry practice and the academic researchers are trying to get out of this by looking the answer from the technology and business model end: “HOW” to manage the challenges of continuous change concentrating on flexibility and speed, maintainability and scalability, cost. Aftermath of it, there is numerous business process modeling techniques are being proposed by the researchers and the technology industry that well captures both approaches - Quantitative analysis: Objective Approach and Qualitative analysis: Subjective Approach though these approaches have its own drawback. (It is not the purpose of this seminar to enlighten on this drawback.) But, the socio-cultural challenge is ignored though our investigation reveals that Information behavior changes faster than information systems, which has driven us to work on it. Therefore, the aim of this seminar is to demonstrate how socio-cultural factors have significant impact, i.e. WHY IT MATTERS, on the success of business process optimization.
In this advanced business analysis training session, you will learn Enterprise Analysis. Topics covered in this session are:
• Strategic Planning
• Process and Elements
• Zachman Framework
• POLDAT
• Entity Analysis
• Business Architecture
• Key Stakeholders
• SWOT Analysis
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
For more information, click here: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/business-analysis/advanced-business-analyst-training/
In this advanced business analysis training session, you will learn User Stories from Scenarios. Topics covered in this session are:
• What is a Use Case?
• The Purpose of Use Case Analysis
• Managing the Building of Product
• The Basic Development Loop
• Analysis paralysis – how much is enough
• Conceptual model development
• Style Guide development
• Usability testing during agile increments
For more information, click here: https://www.mindsmapped.com/courses/business-analysis/advanced-business-analyst-training/
3B - How to effectively engage users and managers in IT projects - Richard Co...CFG
This document discusses techniques for effectively engaging users and managers in IT projects. It argues that involving stakeholders is important for project success as human factors strongly impact software development. Specific techniques are presented for each project stage, including establishing a working group to build requirements, using early demos and prototypes to involve users in procurement and implementation, and training managers to facilitate rollout. The document emphasizes informal communication, understanding stakeholder needs, and allowing time for learning and adaptation.
Presented as guest lecturer for SUNY Albany's 636 - Systems Analysis in the Information Environment. The lecture is actuallly an interactive requirements gathering process where I engage the students in creating a product. They act as various stakeholders and I guide them using the slide presentation as a basis for dicussion.
Business Requirements Gathering - Current & Future StateJason Bargent
A simple one page template to gather functional requirements, summarising the current state, what works well, areas for improvement and proposed future state and how it will be implemented at a high level
Seven ways business owners inspire agile teamsMaryann Snider
The document discusses how business owners can inspire agile teams during an agile transition. It provides examples of how business owners at one company held workshops to establish agreements with developers, committed to being responsive and providing feedback, and saw benefits like increased engagement and happier employees. Great business owners are described as flexible, willing to experiment, able to form trusting relationships, negotiate priorities, support team processes, model courage, provide helpful feedback, and know their business domain while trusting the team.
The document provides an overview of advanced business analysis training that covers topics like enterprise modeling, business process modeling, value chain analysis, and linking business and system models. It introduces various modeling techniques and notations for mapping business imperatives, processes, stakeholders, and more. Examples are provided of how to model value chains, business processes using activity diagrams, and properties to specify when analyzing processes.
Business Analyst - Roles & ResponsibilitiesEngineerBabu
Business analysts can benefit business multifold by successfully performing their roles and responsibilities. One of their important jobs is to make the project better understandable for both, the team as well as the client. Read more: https://engineerbabu.com/blog/business-analyst-role-and-responsibilities/
This document provides an overview of managing and implementing change, innovation, and projects. It begins with linking the content to relevant qualification units. It then discusses theories of change management, including models by Lewin, Bridges, and Kotter. Tools for analyzing change such as PESTLE, SWOT, and stakeholder analysis are introduced. Reasons for organizational change and managing resistance to change are explored. The document also covers project management techniques including work breakdown structures, critical path analysis, risk assessment, and Gantt charts. Overall, the document provides a foundation for understanding change management and implementing projects successfully.
Case Against Scaling (Scrum Gathering Berlin)samililja
This document discusses challenges with large-scale software projects and knowledge work. It argues that large size is often due to too much work-in-progress and failure demand from problems like lack of transparency. Attempting agile frameworks at large scale can forget the customer focus. Instead, the document suggests rethinking the questions posed to find ways to reduce size and optimize for customer value delivery through approaches like limiting work-in-progress and removing non-value adding work.
Business Analysis and Business AnalystKuolun Chang
Business analysis involves identifying business needs and solutions to problems. It can involve software development, process improvement, organizational change, or strategic planning. Business analysts analyze organizations, documenting processes and systems to assess business models and technology integration. They identify stakeholders, assist with business cases, plan and monitor projects, clarify issues, prepare documentation and train users. Key skills for business analysts include communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, analysis, visualization, and facilitation. Business analysts investigate goals and issues, analyze information, communicate findings, and evaluate solutions. Backgrounds that can lead to becoming a business analyst include test analyst, project coordinator, administrative roles, and roles with business analysis responsibilities.
Managerial Decentralization in Growth Stage Technology Companies - Dave Litwi...Dave Litwiller
This is the latest installment in the series on functional, corporate and leadership development in high growth, scale-up stage technology businesses.
This piece focuses on how to do managerial decentralization, when a business becomes large enough and diverse enough to benefit from organizing into multiple semi-autonomous divisions or business units.
The document discusses planning for business analyst workshops. It covers selecting the right subject matter experts to participate, getting management support to allocate their time, preparing straw models to guide elicitation, and ensuring workshops are properly facilitated. Effective preparation over two weeks is recommended to build confidence, understand the business, and make the best first impression with workshop participants.
Requirements engineering involves multiple tasks to ensure software engineers understand customer needs. It begins with inception to establish basic understanding, then elicitation gathers requirements from stakeholders. During elaboration, requirements are analyzed and modeled. Negotiation reconciles customer wants with feasibility. Requirements are then specified and validated before being managed throughout the project. The goals are to avoid building the wrong solution and establish a solid foundation for design.
Requirements Elicitation Techniques For Data DiscoveryJoe Newbert
This document discusses techniques for requirements elicitation for data discovery. It provides an overview of fundamental and supplementary elicitation techniques including interviews, workshops, observation, scenario modeling, prototyping, focus groups, surveys, special purpose records, activity sampling, and document analysis. For each technique, it discusses advantages and disadvantages. The document emphasizes that analysts should use a combination of techniques tailored to each situation rather than relying on a single method.
This document provides an overview of effective business analysis. It discusses why business analysis is important for delivering quality software that meets stakeholder needs. It outlines key aspects of effective business analysis including understanding the current state, eliciting user stories, modeling processes and data, and creating detailed documentation like use cases and business rules. Examples are provided to illustrate inherent issues like rounding errors when separating totals. The presentation emphasizes starting with understanding why changes are needed, focusing on people not just processes, and using simple and inclusive techniques.
The document discusses system requirements modeling and fact-finding techniques used by systems analysts. It describes the five general categories of system requirements as outputs, inputs, processes, performance, and controls. It also discusses methods for fact-finding such as interviews, documentation review, observation, questionnaires, sampling, research, and brainstorming. The analyst must properly document all facts learned to develop requirements for a new information system.
The document outlines a framework for business process design projects that utilizes business process modeling, simulation, and design. It involves 8 key steps: 1) developing a case for action and vision statement, 2) identifying and selecting processes, 3) obtaining management commitment, 4) evaluating design enablers, 5) acquiring process understanding, 6) creative process design using principles like benchmarking, 7) process modeling and simulation, and 8) implementing the new process design. Process modeling and simulation allows exploration of redesign effects without disrupting current operations and helps reduce risks.
Ken Fulmer's visit to IIBA Canberra Branch
October 2018
Covering both Soft and Hard/Technical skills for a BA
Hard Skills:
1 - Understand Strategic Imperatives
2 - Customer Experience
3 - Business Process
4 - Embrace Agility
5 - Continuous Stakeholder Collaboration
6 - DATA – Evidence Based Decisions
7 - Understand Technology
Soft Skills
S1 - Infuse Customer Empathy
S2 - Envision the Outcome
S3 - Own the product and the outcome
S4 - Value
S5 –Enable Smart Decisions
S6 – LEARN Continuously
S7 – Change & Engagement
Systems analysis and design techniques are discussed, including requirement gathering and business process analysis. Requirement gathering involves document analysis, interviews, questionnaires, and observation to understand user needs. Functional requirements define system functions while non-functional requirements address system qualities. Business process analysis assesses current processes and can involve automation, improvement, or reengineering. Barriers to effective requirement gathering include users finding additional needs after seeing a system ("yes but" syndrome), incomplete discovery of all needs ("undiscovered ruins" syndrome), and communication gaps between users and developers.
Making Workflow Automation Personal: Next Step in Digital Transformation (SP...Michael Oryszak
True digital transformation requires more than incremental improvements and goes beyond individual projects or processes. To become true digital masters, organizations need to think differently and work to enable their members to rethink everything they do in order to identify opportunities for automation. By addressing the capabilities for enhancing workflow automation as a personalized technology capability, organizations can take a giant leap forward and feed and innovation cycle without any limits. This session will help reframe the primary focus from large, centralized processes to enhancing individual and team collaborators that can drive their own process automation using a variety of commonly available no-code solutions. We will dive into techniques to educate and grow the organization's capabilities and also review some of the commonly supported models for measuring the results and ROI.
When Management Asks You: “Do You Accept Agile as Your Lord and Savior?” - Ci...admford
Updated version of my original Cyphercon talk. With more useful information regarding how to enact change and better visual representation of certain concepts. This talk was given at CircleCityCon 10 in 2023
MIS 49100 Week 5 Social Collaboration and Business Resultsoudesign
This document discusses methodologies for project development in MIS-49100, Capstone course. It emphasizes approaches for software acquisition, development, testing, and implementation. Students learn about methodology relevance to theories, interdependence of project phases, quality control techniques, and testing tools. The course guides students to apply various methodological approaches for successful software project development.
Help! They Expect Me to Be an Oracle Projects Business AnalystLouise Abdulkader
Power point that accompanies white paper by same title that was presented at the Oracle Application User Group Conference in 2013. It details information relative to being an effective Oracle business analyst, i.e. how to utilize existing resources, etc.
The document is a presentation about business analysis that discusses:
1) The different roles of a business analyst and how they have shifted over time from more technical roles to more collaborative roles.
2) Different frameworks that can be used for business analysis like the 4Ms, 4Ps, 4Ss and POPIT model.
3) The importance of business analysis in helping solve problems and seize opportunities by understanding customer perspectives.
M1 Refresher Training Master Final Version non client linkedinMichele Levasseur
This document provides an overview of Lean Six Sigma training concepts. It discusses:
1) The importance of continuous improvement and why it is a focus for the organization. Continuous improvement aims to make incremental process enhancements over time.
2) An example of defining a Lean Six Sigma project to reduce late invoice payments. The example outlines defining the problem, measuring key metrics, analyzing root causes through tools like fishbone diagrams, and improving the process.
3) Control mechanisms that were implemented as part of the daily process like action logs and control charts to standardize and monitor the improved process.
Achieving Business Agility: Change Starts HereJoshua A. Jack
Oftentimes organizations fall into the trap of thinking that change, such as agility, must start in specific areas. But not all agile adoptions/transformations have to start in IT. In this seminar, we will discuss agile adoption/transformation and its starting points in three different areas inside the organization:
Product Portfolio – how we identify what work needs to happen and when
Product Ideation – how agility can and should change the way we look at new products and their requirements
HR – how we start to level up our current and future team members to be able to handle agility
Huan Ho discusses applying agile principles across different domains. He explains why agile is beneficial, focusing on quickly adapting to changing conditions. Key agile principles include understanding requirements, planning tasks, executing work, providing feedback, and refining processes. Examples are provided of applying agile to improve products using a sample product roadmap, to develop teams using goal setting and skills development, and to build flexible "elastic" teams. Other areas like marketing, sales, and support are mentioned where agile could be useful.
The document discusses barriers to starting technology innovation companies and how those barriers have become easier to overcome in recent years. Specifically, it addresses how infrastructure, investment, time, and talent barriers that once required significant money and resources can now be addressed more easily through cloud services, lower startup costs, leveraging existing customer bases, and outsourcing talent. The key is seeing opportunities rather than barriers and being willing to start small, test ideas quickly, and iterate based on customer feedback.
The Agile Learning Organization - Dave Litwiller - Sept 17 2020 - PublicDave Litwiller
Adapting Organizational Capabilities in Scale-up Technology Businesses to Thrive in the Strategic Environment using the Principles of TQM
- Enhance organizational learning capacity and agility
- Build connective capacity across functions and time horizons, to counter tendencies toward silos
- Develop leadership bandwidth at all levels to expand institutional capability for productive change
Analyzing the Business Case for System Analysis and Designrdelafuentetcu
The document provides an overview of analyzing the business case for an IT project. It discusses that a business case justifies a proposal by answering questions about costs, benefits, risks, and measures of success. A feasibility study evaluates if a project is operationally, technically, economically, and schedule feasible. A preliminary investigation gathers facts about a systems request through interviews and documentation analysis to understand problems, define the project scope, and evaluate feasibility. The results and recommendations are then presented to management.
The document outlines a project management basics workshop that provides an introduction to project management concepts and techniques. The workshop covers key principles of project management, technical aspects like process groups and knowledge areas, and behavioral skills like effective communication and problem solving. Participants will learn project management fundamentals through exercises and apply them to mapping, initiating, planning, and leading mock projects.
Flutter is a popular open source, cross-platform framework developed by Google. In this webinar we'll explore Flutter and its architecture, delve into the Flutter Embedder and Flutter’s Dart language, discover how to leverage Flutter for embedded device development, learn about Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) and its consortium and understand the rationale behind AGL's choice of Flutter for next-gen IVI systems. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover whether Flutter is right for your project.
8 Best Automated Android App Testing Tool and Framework in 2024.pdfkalichargn70th171
Regarding mobile operating systems, two major players dominate our thoughts: Android and iPhone. With Android leading the market, software development companies are focused on delivering apps compatible with this OS. Ensuring an app's functionality across various Android devices, OS versions, and hardware specifications is critical, making Android app testing essential.
Mobile App Development Company In Noida | Drona InfotechDrona Infotech
Drona Infotech is a premier mobile app development company in Noida, providing cutting-edge solutions for businesses.
Visit Us For : https://www.dronainfotech.com/mobile-application-development/
Unveiling the Advantages of Agile Software Development.pdfbrainerhub1
Learn about Agile Software Development's advantages. Simplify your workflow to spur quicker innovation. Jump right in! We have also discussed the advantages.
WWDC 2024 Keynote Review: For CocoaCoders AustinPatrick Weigel
Overview of WWDC 2024 Keynote Address.
Covers: Apple Intelligence, iOS18, macOS Sequoia, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Apple TV+.
Understandable dialogue on Apple TV+
On-device app controlling AI.
Access to ChatGPT with a guest appearance by Chief Data Thief Sam Altman!
App Locking! iPhone Mirroring! And a Calculator!!
14 th Edition of International conference on computer visionShulagnaSarkar2
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UI5con 2024 - Boost Your Development Experience with UI5 Tooling ExtensionsPeter Muessig
The UI5 tooling is the development and build tooling of UI5. It is built in a modular and extensible way so that it can be easily extended by your needs. This session will showcase various tooling extensions which can boost your development experience by far so that you can really work offline, transpile your code in your project to use even newer versions of EcmaScript (than 2022 which is supported right now by the UI5 tooling), consume any npm package of your choice in your project, using different kind of proxies, and even stitching UI5 projects during development together to mimic your target environment.
UI5con 2024 - Bring Your Own Design SystemPeter Muessig
How do you combine the OpenUI5/SAPUI5 programming model with a design system that makes its controls available as Web Components? Since OpenUI5/SAPUI5 1.120, the framework supports the integration of any Web Components. This makes it possible, for example, to natively embed own Web Components of your design system which are created with Stencil. The integration embeds the Web Components in a way that they can be used naturally in XMLViews, like with standard UI5 controls, and can be bound with data binding. Learn how you can also make use of the Web Components base class in OpenUI5/SAPUI5 to also integrate your Web Components and get inspired by the solution to generate a custom UI5 library providing the Web Components control wrappers for the native ones.
2. Where We Are….
Business Analyst Academy 2
Business Process Model
0. Tool Chest for
Innovation
4. Elicitation
1. Straw Models
Participants
5. Business Process
Model
6. Decisions and
Rules
7. Conceptual Data
Model, Glossary,
Entity Descriptions
8. Use Cases
9. Requirements
2. Workshop
Planning
3. Workshop
Management
3. We are Here…
Business Analyst Academy 3
Business Process Model
0. Tool Chest for
Innovation
(Patterns and
Frameworks)
4. Elicitation
1. Straw Models
Participants
5. Business Process
Model
6. Decisions and
Rules
7. Conceptual Data
Model, Glossary,
Entity Descriptions
9. Requirements
2. Workshop
Planning
3. Workshop
Management
8. Volumetrics and
Confirm KPIs
4. Business Analyst Academy – Workshop Management
4
4
• Interactive - different levels and organizations communicate
directly with each other--rather than one on one with the
interviewer
• All ideas are given a chance to percolate to avoid premature
criticism
• Business process rather than function orientation--not just
accounting or programming; not just the State point of view
How are JADs different
5. Roles and Responsibilities
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• Facilitator
• participation by all involved; focused and timeboxed
• keeps baggage and hierarchy out of meeting
• Encourages open exchange of ideas
• Recorder
• Takes detailed notes, distributes in timely manner
• Participants
• Leave baggage at the door
• Look at process from the view of customers and business partners
6. Facilitator Shows Up PREPARED
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• Allow at least two weeks before conduct of the first JAD to learn
the business
• Understand or prepare the charter
• Meet with the Project Sponsor to verify understanding of the project’s role
in the enterprise strategic direction
• Work with other business analysts to collect, read, and catalog reference
materials
• Understand the enterprise technology investments and the project’s
contribution to them
• Prepare “straw model” process flows
• Read the RFP and our response
7. Workshops are Hard Work -- Daily Tasks
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• Edit and distribute the minutes of each JAD session
to the participants – each day!!!
• Make homework assignments where needed
• Verify the note taker understands what is
important
• Organize notes by findings, questions, needed
followup, assignments, rules, requirements, data
needs, report needs, constraints, assumptions,
performance measurements
8. Daily Tasks….
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• Lists of Old and New Assumptions, Problems, Opportunities,
Exceptions, Rules, Policies
• Assign homework:
• Collect reference materials
• Research metrics: throughout, volumes, workload, level of effort
• Distribute meeting notes
• Schedule next meeting
• Update Prototype, database, storyboard
9. Remember: You Start with a Model to ELICIT Contributions
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• Don’t start with a blank slate
• Show the team you have done your homework to
understand the business
• The sessions are not intended to educate the
facilitator, but to educate one another
• Provide an initial story board and process model to
use to elicit information rather than starting from
scratch
• Include an “as is” model of the current process—
use to establish a common understanding
10. Show Participants Their Contributions are Embraced
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• Keep a note page open to record facts, definitions, requirement
ideas, rules, changes in laws
• Update Visio in real time when easy to do.
• If not, draw change on the white board as overlay to the projector
and take a picture.
• Create email lists so that pictures can be shared right away.
11. Why Immediate Recognition is Important
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• Keep a note page open to record facts, definitions,
requirement ideas, rules, changes in laws
• Update Visio in real time when easy to do.
• If not, draw change on the white board as overlay
to the projector and take a picture.
• Create email lists so that pictures can be shared
right away.
12. Dealing with Distractions And Detours
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• An esoteric need can take the discussion sideways.
• Ask “how often does this happen?”
• How much effort goes into each occurrence?
• What is consequence of delay, manual processing?
• What would prevent it?
• “Please send me an email summarizing the topic and I
will turn this into requirements and explore some ideas
for how to represent in the models”
13. Facilitator Role
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• Explain the project goals from an enterprise
strategic and management perspective
• Explain the system development life cycle – where
the current activity fits into the overall project and
time frame
• Explain how the team’s work will influence what
happens later – and how they can stay informed
• Emphasize knowledge and idea sharing – not early
judgment or criticism
14. Techniques to Promote Creativity
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• Establish common understanding of the current process
• Identify termite droppings:
• logs, handoffs, error listings, Filemaker Pro reports, control totals,
transmittal letters
• Understand assumptions that underlie current practices, roles,
responsibilities
• Challenge the underlying assumptions, not the people performing
the current tasks
• Propose new assumptions as the conditions for new tasks and
responsibilities
15. Challenge Assumptions
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• What are Underlying Assumptions?
• The constraints and conditions that mold the way
business is currently performed
• Outmoded technologies
• Personal preferences of supervisors who have long
since retired
• Responses to concerns that no longer exist
• Limitations imposed by laws and procedures no longer
applicable
• The number of forms that can be tied together by a 30
inch length of string
16. Prompts for New Assumptions
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• Staff are more highly trained than ten years ago
• Staff are computer literate
• Verifications can be done at the end rather than serving as
a condition of approval for each step
• People are empowered to make decisions with audits at a
later time
• Edit and correct without error listings
• Customers can decide for themselves what is best
• Technical assistance, not control and approval
• We can offer wisdom, but can not require its use
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How Workshops are Different
• Emphasize the business process not just the point of view of a single
organizational unit
• System must meet needs of line, operational staff as well as management’s
reporting needs
• Effective user involvement not controlled by the information technology
point of view
• Stimulate “out of the box” thinking
• Do more than automate the current process
• Involve people who normally have little influence but may have important
insights
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Workshop Way of Thinking
• Takes a business process, not automation point of view
• Requires someone looking at the project from a business
perspective
• Reduces the “control” of the techies
• Requires thinking about what people do w/ system
• Enables users to understand and ask more questions about
what new process will look like an d do
• Makes explicit that we are not automating the status quo
• Forces exploration of ways to improve the business process
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• Provides access across a wide range of business units: user line of business,
fiscal, executive, admin support, Info Tech, other lines of business
• Translates words into an understandable picture
• Breaks the conceptual barrier of looking at a business process across
organizational boundaries
• Focuses on the end product/service to the customer/business partner
• Something for everyone: executives see enterprise process, managers see their
individual contributions
• Provides reason to explore entire enterprise
Workshop Approach Benefits
20. Beware of Baggage
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• Divisions may have long memories and grudges over past
problems
• People may have competed for positions and promotions
• Software team rivalries; labor grievances
21. Rules of Engagement
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• Time Box to stay focused
• All ideas and questions are worthwhile
• Save criticism for later; once closure reached, move on
• Participants appreciate views that cross organizational boundaries
• Participants recognize different levels of responsibility: mgmt, admin, phone
duty, filing, technical
• Criticize Assumptions underlying the current process--not the activities or the
people