The document discusses enterprise business analysis and its benefits. It emphasizes analyzing requirements from an enterprise-wide perspective by focusing on three key areas: purpose (why), business entities (what), and processes and functions (how). This helps ensure strategic alignment, increase ROI, and consider impacts across the entire business rather than just within a project scope. The document provides an example of how mapping requirements to organizational strategy and analyzing them through the lens of a "client" business entity can result in a more efficient project with higher ROI.

1. Mapping projects and
programmes against
organisational strategy
Measurement
Ensuring we deliver
smart projects with
effective ROI
Examining cross functional
integration and the
management of programme
requirements
Enterprise level analysis and processes
Benjamen Walsh – Enterprise Business Analysis
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Mapping Management

2. Why Do Enterprise Business Analysis?
Develop your Strategic and Enterprise Skills
Write Valuable Requirements
Increase ROI for your Business
Reduce Impacts and Risks
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3. Define your Requirements
using the building boxes of
any business
2. Business Entities - What
Think of the Impacts to
the greater business
context and not just
within your project scope
1. Purpose - Why
* What is Enterprise Analysis in Practice
Enterprise Analysis focuses on the 3: Why, What and How
State Processes and Functions
in context of business entities
3. Process and Functions - How
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4. * Strategic Planning Hierarchy - Why
Vision to Strategic Objectives
Key Result Areas to Key Performance
Indictors which can be measured!
TOP-DOWN HIERARCHICAL
Trace Top to Bottom and Bottom to
Top
TRACEABILITY
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5. * Business Entities - What
Business Entities are things that describe the key groups of information that a business
requires to operate. BE’s are nouns and should be tangibles that actually exist.
Client
Property
Case
Law
Office
Lawyer
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6. * Requirements - How
Using the common format to help enterprise thinking:
Ability for {Actor} to perform {Function} with {Business Entity}
Case Case Property
Requirements
Update Address
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7. * Traceability
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
To reduce the time taken to
complete case work for sales and
purchases by 25% by the end of
the year
PROGRAMME
Case Management Changes01
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We can map from bottom to top and top to bottom
PROJECT
Reduce Steps in Case
Management process
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CASE
REQUIREMENTS
Change Address
X

8. S02 - To increase revenue by 20% through
increased client numbers by the end of the
year
SO1 - To reduce the time taken to complete
case work for sales and purchases by 25% by
the end of the year
* Raglan Property Lawyers – Just Law
Vision - “to be the cheapest and best property law firm in Raglan”
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Just Law has defined 2 strategic objectives for FY14/15 and will spend $200k on S01 and
$400k on S02 (Total of $600k) on their change programme

9. * Programme Hierarchy - Just Law
Project 1 – Reduce Steps in Case Management
process
Requirements - X
PROGAMME 1 - Changes current Case
Management System
Project 2 – Client Name and Address Management
Requirements - Y
PROGRAMME 2 -New Client Management System
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10. Normal Project Thinking
Thinking Project
Your Requirements
Solution Focus
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11. -25%
Steps in Sales
and Purchase
Cases
* Projects to Solutions
2 Projects, 2 investments for one -25% Saving
Programme 01 and 02
Project 01 - Changes in Case Management Process
The team will spend $200 K on current change to case
management system to reduce data entry steps
Project 02 - Implement Client Management System
The team will spend $200 K on implementing a simple
client management system to manage name and
addressing
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12. * Project 01 - Changes in Case Management Process
Ability for the user to capture the
name and address of the client
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Ability for the user to mail merge the
addressing details (client name and
address) on sales and purchase
contracts
$200K
REQUIREMENTS X

13. * Project 02 - Implement Client Management System
Ability for the user to select the clients
name and address and its populate the
contract
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Ability for a user to change on the
clients address on the case screen
and it change other references
$200K
REQUIREMENTS Y

14. * ROI for Project 01 and Project 02
After year one the ROI is 112.5%, ROI = ( (Earnings) - Initial Invested Amount) / Initial
Invested Amount) ) × 100
Total Cost
$400K 112.5%Return
By 2016
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Earnings
$850K

15. Enterprise Thinking
Think Strategically
Use Business Entities
Write Valuable Requirements
Increase ROI for the Business
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16. CONTACT DETAILS LINK TO CASES
ADDRESS DETAILS NAME
* Focus on the Entity - Client
CLIENT
The client name and address
is used in both the Client and
Case Entity
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CASE

17. * Focus on Project on the Entities
If we were to create one project around the Client Entity that focused on Client addressing we
will be more efficient - This would save money and provide a better return on investment!
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Ability for the user to capture the
name and address of the client
Ability for the user to mail merge the
addressing details (client name and
address) on sales and purchase
contracts
Ability for the user to select the clients
name and address and its populate the
contract
Ability for a user to change on the
clients address on the case screen
and it change other references
CLIENT ADDRESSING REQUIREMENTS

18. * ROI – “Enterprise Thinking” Project
The New ROI is 183.3%, ROI = ( (Earnings) - Initial Invested Amount) / Initial
Invested Amount) ) × 100
Cost
$300K 183.3%Return
By 2016
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Earnings
$850K
Saving 50K of Development Cost

19. 2. Business Entities - What1. Purpose - Why
* Upgrade from being just another BA
Think Enterprise, Increase ROI and Increase your own skills and cash flow
3. Process and Functions - How
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20. Thank You!
Benjamen Walsh - Enterprise Business Analyst
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