'The Power of Three: BA, SA and PO Working Together to Achieve Project Success by Valerija Savina, LV

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The document discusses how involving three roles - the Business-oriented Business Analyst, System Analyst, and Product Owner - can help achieve project success when developing business solutions. It describes the domains and responsibilities of each role. The Business Analyst focuses on business needs, requirements validation, and transition requirements. The System Analyst focuses on technical solution requirements and non-functional requirements. The Product Owner leads the product, understands how pieces fit together, and is the single source of requirements for developers. Involving these three roles ensures the business problem is understood, requirements are clear and validated, and the solution fits together as a coherent product.

Technology Business

The Power of Three: BA, SA and PO
Working Together to Achieve Project
Success
by Valerija Savina

2nd International Business and System Conference BSC 2013

Hurray! Another day to create value
by developing new solutions
and gaining lot of knowledge and new skills!

Mean SW solution:
just software not business solution
inconsistent

Signs Your Project is Breaking the Rule
Organization team:
Don’t understand the specific business problem that
software aims to solve
Don’t have higher level view of the business
Don’t think about cost effectiveness of stated req'ts
Don’t think about transition requirements
SW solution delivering team:
Nobody knows rationales for requirements
Nobody understands how the pieces fit together
Developers get requirements from many sources

Action plan
Involve mindsets of three BA practitioners:
Business-oriented Business Analyst,
System Analyst and
Product owner

Agent –
Business-oriented Business Analyst

Agent –
Business-oriented Business Analyst
Habitat: Organization (business)
Distinguishing feature: Business need-oriented
Domain:
• Business and stakeholder requirements
• Answers to Why? What?
• Solution validations and assessment
• Black belt in transition requirements analysis

/! Good at digging into the organization's soul
Collaborates with stakeholders and system analyst

Agent - System Analyst
Habitat: Solution delivering team
Distinguishing feature: Technical-oriented
Domain:
• Solution requirements, details of the system
implementation
• Answers to How?
• Black belt in non-functional requirements analysis
/! Good at stealing personalities (designer, tester, project
manager)
Collaborates with BA (and stakeholders), product owner and
developers

Agent - Product Owner
Habitat: Solution delivering team
Distinguishing feature: Product leader
Domain:
• Product economics
• System features from A to Z
• Understands how the pieces fit together
/! Single authoritаtive source of req'ts for developers
/! Stands up for the product

SIA FMS (Financial Management Solutions) is a regional leader in
business software development, project management and
consulting. We develop, implement and support the enterprise
resource planning (ERP) system Horizon. FMS also provides IT
system integration, contract based development services and
works with an extensive range of business analytics and financial
planning solutions.
We have 2 teams delivering requirements:
• Horizon Experts team
• SA team

BA’s in Product Development Projects
BA

PO

SA

1) Customer

Expert

Expert

2) Customer

Expert

SA

3) Expert

Expert

Expert

Extras for
Product Development Projects
BA
2) Customer

PO
Expert

SA
SA

+ SA team is source of innovation
+ PO is validating req’ts
+ PO is a single point for integrators and sales force

+ SA team are potential Experts

BA’s in Custom Solutions
Development Projects
BA

PO

SA

1) Customer

SA

SA

2) Customer

SA

SA2

3) SA

SA

SA2

4) SA

SA

SA

Extras for Custom Solutions
Development Projects
BA
2) Customer

PO
SA

SA
SA2

+ Benefits of pair-analysis (quality, motivation)
+ PO is a great help for project manager
+ PO is single point for integrators

+ SA2 can be entry level specialist

Homework for
Organizations Owning Solutions
• Know your business requirements
• Make sure you have business-oriented BA on
your side to take care of your business needs
• Ask who is PO on your SW development
project

Homework for Solution Delivery Team
• Make sure you know rationale for your
requirements
• Ensure you have product owner to take care of
the solution
• Collaborate with your customer

Homework for you – BA Practitioner

Six Thinking Hats is a book by Edward de Bono.

Three Thinking Hats
for delivering requirements for
successful business solutions

Product Owner

Business-oriented Business Analyst
System Analyst

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