Want a Career in Business Architecture? Start Here
Analyst Catalyst Blog
APRIL 25, 2024
Here are three steps to take when considering a career in business architecture. And no, it's not just about training.
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What is Business Architecture ?
Business Analyst Mentor
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
What is Business Architecture and how do you Define Business Architecture? The Business Architecture Guild and several related professional bodies and industry standards provides a definition of business architecture as:
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What is Business Architecture?
The BAWorld
JULY 17, 2021
Business Architecture is a holistic framework for aligning an organization with its goals, and in turn, making it more competitive. In this article, we’ll discuss what business architecture is? Business architecture is the blueprint of a company. Definition of Business Architecture.
Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling
Leading Agile
MARCH 23, 2022
Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. And I want to go to a topic, I haven’t discussed this with anybody on the podcast, I’ve done business architecture. Listen now. Agile to Agility Website.
Exploring the Role of Business Architecture in Large-Scale Transformation
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Mike Cottmeyer sits down with two LeadingAgile consultants, Melissa Roberts and Len Greski, to discuss the value of business architecture, how it enables Transformation, and some of the things that are preventing business architecture from achieving real results.
Exploring the Role of Business Architecture in Large-Scale Transformation
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Mike Cottmeyer sits down with two LeadingAgile consultants, Melissa Roberts and Len Greski, to discuss the value of business architecture, how it enables Transformation, and some of the things that are preventing business architecture from achieving real results.
Business Architects use business analysis or do business analysis practitioners use Business Architecture
Business Analysts
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
by Business Analysis, Business architecture is a commonly used term in the business analysis domain as well in most organisations. Like many things in the English language and in the business analysis world, the term “business architecture ” means many things to many people!
Exploring the Role of Business Architecture in Large-Scale Transformation
Leading Agile
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Mike Cottmeyer sits down with two LeadingAgile consultants, Melissa Roberts and Len Greski, to discuss the value of business architecture, how it enables Transformation, and some of the things that are preventing business architecture from achieving real results.
Business Architecture: The Ins and Outs with Whynde Kuehn
Bridging the Gap
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Whether you’re learning about business architecture for the first time or dreaming of ways to grow your BA career into a business architecture role, my conversation with Whynde Kuehn will help you discover the value of this role in an organization and what you can do to bridge that gap in your career.
How DevOps Enables Business Architecture Alignment
Leading Agile
JULY 7, 2021
Additionally, we’ll discuss the common failure modes we often see in our clients’ business architecture. Then, we’ll identify opportunities where you can implement DevOps practices alongside Agile methodology to improve your Agile metrics, accelerate business alignment, and achieve your desired business goals.
Business Architecture (Feat. Wouter Nieuwenburg)
BA Brew
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Mike and Jonathan welcome guest Wouter Nieuwenburg to talk all things Business Architecture. The crew discuss the differences between the Business Architect and Business Analyst roles and what happens in that ‘grey area’ where respective toolkits overlap. AssistKD offers a choice of Business Architecture courses.
How DevOps Enables Business Architecture Alignment
Leading Agile
JULY 7, 2021
Additionally, we’ll discuss the common failure modes we often see in our clients’ business architecture. Then, we’ll identify opportunities where you can implement DevOps practices alongside Agile methodology to improve your Agile metrics, accelerate business alignment, and achieve your desired business goals.
Using Value Stream Maps to Identify Improvement Opportunities
Leading Agile
MARCH 25, 2024
In this third installment of our value stream mapping series, Mary shows Lance and Dave how to apply the technique of value stream mapping to your business architecture and capabilities so that you can make more informed, intentional, data-driven decisions to improve your business. Want to Listen Instead?
Understanding the Work of an Agile Transformation
Leading Agile
APRIL 11, 2024
But a shift in mindset isn’t going to address the real organizational issues, business architecture issues, technology architecture issues, HR issues, and technical debt that reside within your organization.
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What is CBA (Certified Business Architect) | Tips and Guidance in 2022
Business Analyst Mentor
MARCH 13, 2022
What is CBA (Certified Business Architect)? A business architecture certification provides a wide range of benefits for the field, for businesses who benefit from the practice and for the individual.
The Book Look: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots
The Data Administration Newsletter
APRIL 19, 2022
I know very few people who specialize in one area of IT/business architecture yet have practical knowledge of how all of the areas fit together. Roger has expertise in business process management, but has deep and vast knowledge of all facets of an organization’s business architecture. It is […].
What is Business Architect?
Business Analyst Mentor
DECEMBER 3, 2021
What is Business Architect and how do you Define Business Architect? The Business Architecture Guild and several related professional bodies and industry standards provides a definition of business architect as:
5 Different Perspectives in Business Analysis
Modern Analyst
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
The BABOK® Guide describes five prominent ones that represent common approaches to Business Analysis: Agile, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Business Architecture, and Business Process Management.
How to Use Product Extraction to Break Technical Dependencies
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
In this panel clip, Mike Cottmeyer CEO of LeadingAgile poses the question: What is the relationship between business architecture and product extraction? To dive deeper into the discussion about product extraction, click here: How DevOps Enables Business Architecture Alignment.
High-Impact Business Analysis: Special Skills And Mindset That Generate Success
Analysts Corner
JUNE 27, 2023
The BABOK Guide lists 50 techniques and dozens more can be found in additional IIBA publications for specific contexts such as Agile Analysis, Product Ownership Analysis, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, and Business Architecture.
BABOK Strategy Analysis
Watermark Learning
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Future State Description – The set of conditions necessary to meet the business need and to define success. Potential Value – the value that may be realized if the future state is implemented expressed in terms of benefits vs costs Assess Risks A strategy that fails to factor in risks is most likely to fail.
Customer experience architecture
Clarasys
MARCH 31, 2022
Your business architecture – the mapping of your business capabilities and supporting infrastructure – is what underpins the experiences your customers have. Customer-centricity must be integrated into your entire business architecture. Use these to guide and structure your CX improvement strategy.
Which Business Analysis Certifications to I need?
Analysts Corner
JANUARY 8, 2023
Of course it’s not just the certification, you’ll also need to gain hands-on experience.
Business value streams and capabilities
BA Coach
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Examples of this could be increased customer satisfaction, implementation of a more efficient business process or the automation of a tedious tasks thereby freeing staff up to perform more challenging work. Agile teams, through their deliverables, impact business architecture elements such as business capabilities and business value streams.
Customer experience architecture
Clarasys
MARCH 31, 2022
Your business architecture – the mapping of your business capabilities and supporting infrastructure – is what underpins the experiences your customers have. Customer-centricity must be integrated into your entire business architecture. Use these to guide and structure your CX improvement strategy.
The First Step to Creating Business Value
Leading Agile
MARCH 22, 2021
And so, oftentimes the starting place for organizational structure is to look at the business architecture using a technique called business capability modeling.
What is Hybrid Cloud infrastructure and why is it important?
BizAcuity
JULY 26, 2021
Definitely, without a proper understanding of your business architecture and operations, there is a high risk that your business might face critical issues and a high risk of potentially fall on the wrong side of compliance regulations. .
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The Future of Business Analysis: Exploring Diverse Career Pathways
Business Bullet
MAY 13, 2023
Business Change Managers: Business change managers help organizations navigate change by developing change management strategies and supporting employees through the change process. Business Architecture: Business architects help organizations develop and implement enterprise-wide strategies that align with their business goals.
The Dawn of Cloud Based BI
BizAcuity
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
And that can be possible by Business Intelligence. BI is the partner that today’s businesses need. It enables organizations to take a close look at their business architecture with the help of technology and offers important insights.
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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Leading Agile
JANUARY 21, 2021
What we had to flip them into first was a business capability aligned organization organized around their business architecture. And then what you start to see is that there’s clusters of dependencies across that business architecture. He came from a business architecture background.
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Seeing Your Vision
Leading Agile
APRIL 26, 2021
There are well-understood organizational design patterns and business architectures to orchestrate the manner in which work gets done to support a vision. Impacting and empowering others in ways she could never imagine. Curating a vision releases our potential and forces our resolve to do the same.
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A Simple Guide to Assess Your Agile Maturity Level
Netmind
JANUARY 13, 2021
I mostly found that business agility and the existence of references to a good business architecture were missing from many of them. So, I set out to put something together that made sense to me, based on a mash-up of my experience as a business analyst, a project manager, and an agilist. Teams are thriving.
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Levels and roles of business analysis
Capiro
JULY 19, 2017
Levels of business analysis. This article considers 3 levels of business analysis. Strategic : Business transformations; Portfolio management; Business change; Business architecture and Target operating models; Business agility; Benefits realisation.
Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens
Leading Agile
MARCH 31, 2020
So, that was kind of cool, the thing that I was doing like right before we met was I had been brought into Microsoft as a contractor, building out a business architecture practice, I think they called motion. So, I was helping Microsoft build a business architecture practice, on the tail of that. – Hmm.
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A Simple Guide to Assess Your Agile Maturity Level
Netmind
JANUARY 13, 2021
I mostly found that business agility and the existence of references to a good business architecture were missing from many of them. So, I set out to put something together that made sense to me, based on a mash-up of my experience as a business analyst, a project manager, and an agilist. Teams are thriving.
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Agile Transformation is a Journey
Leading Agile
APRIL 17, 2023
You know, we come in and we take a look at the organizational design, we look at the business architecture, the product model hierarchies. We look at the technology architecture. Yeah, 100%. I mean, that’s kind of what LeadingAgile’s bread and butter is.
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What Is An Agile Organization?
Leading Agile
JULY 22, 2022
We must clearly define and fund for business outcomes at the capability level so that investments are tied to tangible improvements. Antiquated Technology & Business Architecture. To speak candidly, technical and architectural dependencies tend to be the hardest and most expensive impediments to deal with.
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Overcoming Resistance to Change in Agile Transformation
Leading Agile
AUGUST 2, 2023
Imagine a world where the business architecture, business capability model, domain-driven design, product architecture, and key strategies are in alignment. Some may struggle to see how the proposed changes will make a difference given the current state of affairs. In such cases, this resistance is reasonable.
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Introduction to Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
BA Coach
AUGUST 31, 2020
To cover this breadth, BABOK ® defines perspectives that explain how business analysis activities look in different environments, for different initiatives. Business intelligence. Business architecture. Business process management. IIBA ® stands for the International Institute of Business Analysis.
IIBA Business Analysis Awareness Event in Egypt 2016
Business Borderlines
JULY 2, 2021
Angie Eissa, MScBIT, CBAP : A Business Analysis Expert with over Eighteen Years of experience in the Financial Services Sector from Elicitation, Requirements Analysis, Solutions Design and Delivery Management in both Public and Private sectors in Egypt.
Key Skills of Business Analyst in Analytics Projects
The BAWorld
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Organization Knowledge Organization knowledge is useful when considering the management structure and business architecture of the enterprise while designing strategy. Adaptability Adaptability helps to adjust the analysis approach as more data is uncovered, new insights are learned, or different levels of stakeholders are involved.
What is a business analysis centre of excellence?
Capiro
JULY 5, 2017
Assisting in managing the realisation of benefits identified in programme and project business cases. Helping to boost business agility. A source for the development of a business architecture. Developing the skills of business analysts in line with the needs of the organisation.
A Change Model for Moving Legacy Systems Into the Cloud
Leading Agile
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
So I think a lot about the intersection, maybe business architecture, organizational design, domain design, product type organizations, product driven organizations and such. We tend to move on the business process product development side. It seems like the business is using the language of business architecture.
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A Change Model for Moving Legacy Systems Into the Cloud
Leading Agile
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
So I think a lot about the intersection, maybe business architecture, organizational design, domain design, product type organizations, product driven organizations and such. We tend to move on the business process product development side. It seems like the business is using the language of business architecture.
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