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Requirements for Process Automation

Argon Digital

The processes that describe how the business currently works are called the as-is or current-state processes. Those that describe the envisioned future state of how the business will operate are called the to-be processes. What about the Process Analysis Space? Business process acronyms galore.

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Documenting Acceptance Criteria using process diagrams

Analysts Corner

In the previous post , I spoke about documenting user story acceptance criteria using text. I will primarily focus on process diagrams (BPMN) and flowcharts. Initially, I prepared requirements in the textual format (using “given when then” technique) and sent the document for the engineer’s review. Then, an idea came to me.

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How Business Analysts Create Value

Bridging the Gap

Don’t business analysts slow things down, add more costs, and create unnecessary documentation? This video takes a look at the specific ways business analysis increases the return on investment. I remember early on in my career meeting with an end user who was showing me how they were copying and pasting documents into this field.

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What Requirements to Specify for COTS and SaaS Projects

Bridging the Gap

I’ll be sharing specific techniques for business process analysis , use cases , and data modeling , as well as success stories from ACBAs. Now, the first slide I want to bring, just to kind of revisit these actual definitions and make sure we’re clear. We’ve got document management tools.

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Business Architecture: The Ins and Outs with Whynde Kuehn

Bridging the Gap

Our core teachings are around process analysis, like in process analysis , use cases , data modeling , which goes to that glossary of terms that you were talking about, and how to manage a whole project or really an initiative. So you could not have said it better, exactly. LAURA BRANDENBURG: Yeah.

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Business process modelling: key elements

Analysts Corner

Structural elements of a business process These are the building blocks; the foundational components of a process which need to be understood in order to be modelled. By definition every process exists to deliver a specific repeatable outcome. Each value stream can contain one or multiple high-level processes.

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BABOK Techniques

Watermark Learning

To support your work as a Business Analyst and for a certification exam, review these top modeling techniques: (Note to author – I added some definition around each one, so they knew what they were) Scope Modeling – visually describes what is in and out of scope of the focus area – e.g., solution, stakeholders, department, etc.