A lot of people think the complexity of a process is about the number of stages and steps it has but it’s not.
I have often seen BAs do an initial analysis of a business process by producing a diagram like this:
This is fine, as […]
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A lot of people think the complexity of a process is about the number of stages and steps it has but it’s not. I have often seen BAs do an initial analysis of a business process by producing a diagram like this:
This is fine, as […] Know Your Customer (KYC) is primarily about the decisions a financial institution needs to make about a (potential) customer. However, I have yet to find a definition online that focuses on decisions. Wikipedia’s definition focuses on the process1, while Investopedia2 and The Free Dictionary3 place emphasis on the form that has […] In 2012 one of my readers contacted me to ask whether business rules and user story acceptance criteria could be considered the same thing. I answered in a blog post that they should not. However, in 2013 I learned decision modelling, specifically, The Decision Model (TDM) and I was taught by […] Collaboration isn’t some kind of Arthurian round table. It’s not about everyone having their say or having equal weight assigned to their say. I have no time for the old style of business analyst who spends months crafting 3,000 pages of text (but not a single model) to describe requirements and […] Many analysts have a grounding in grounding in one main area of business analysis, such as process modelling. However, a company’s business architecture cannot stand on a single leg. In fact, three legs are required: Process model Data model Decision model I have seen many software development projects where […] |