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Capability Investment Planning: Use a Build vs. Buy 9-Box

Analysts Corner

Capability Investment Planning: 9-Box your Build vs. Buy Decision Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One… A guy clicks into a meeting, shares to present, and gets stopped halfway into the recommendation. The Language of Change is ‘Capability’ The best approach toward initiative planning is to first identify the business capabilities in question.

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Analyst’s corner digest #15

Analysts Corner

We’ve got some insights on using SWOT and identifying business rules, a guide to assess your enterprise architecture practice maturity, an interview with Karl Wiegers as recorded by Fabricio Laguna; and a few career stories: how do you start a new project as a BA? And some people told me UML is dead — still kicking, and useful as ever!

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Analyst’s corner digest #9

Analysts Corner

. > Keep reading… 3) The Art of Writing Good Documentation, by Pragati Sinha Documentation is dead. All are good excuses for writing little to no documentation for your software projects. Data helps organizations better understand their customers, track progress against plan, and develop strategies for long-term success.

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Architecture & Governance Magazine: “Report Suggests Agile Integration Is the ‘Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture,’ Expert Agrees”

Agile Velocity

In the first couple sentences of “Agile Integration: The Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture,” a recently released report by Red Hat, the authors write: “Business success is increasingly based on your ability to react to change. View the Article PDF Here.

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Pioneering AI Frontier: Integrated Knowledge Bases

Analysts Corner

Business knowledge can be maintained in the form of documents, manuals, policies, process diagrams, procedures, reports, enterprise architecture models, system documentation, best practices, and analysis results, among others. In most organizations, knowledge bases are not well-structured and are rarely updated.

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Your Next Process Model’s Degree of Abstraction

Modern Analyst

The process’s related performance or measurement data, and text-based operating procedures, documents, or other specifications. Competent business analysts and process analysts can anticipate, elicit and document a range of logical refinement types, using clear agendas and reusable modeling patterns [4]. budgeting, scoping).

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The State of Business Analyst Jobs in 2020 and Beyond

The Uncommon League

“The scope of business analysis is growing into strategic planning, enterprise architecture and optimizing current operations,” explains Jamie Champagne , business analyst and speaker. The days of huge requirements documents and extensive use cases are numbered,” writes business analyst career coach Joe Barrios.

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