What is a Business Architect?

Some years ago, I was asked: ‘What is the difference between a Business Analyst and a Business Architect?’

My reply was that a Business Architect was someone who can apply the techniques of business analysis to an architectural framework in a technology-agnostic way. There are other differences but that was what […]

There should be no legislation against ‘hate’ crime

I hope that got your attention. However, this post is about defining terms well so that your business architecture and how your business operates does not get bloated simply because people conflate different concepts.

I’m using the concept of ‘hate’ crime because I happen to be discussing the topic with someone […]

Review of the PegaBPM Methodology

In this blog post I aim to provide an appraisal of the Pega Developer Network articles “What is the SmartBPM Methodology?” and “Using Pega BPM with PRPC“, based on my experiences working on Pega projects in the field.

I am a Certified Pega Business Architect (7.2) and Pega Methodology Black Belt, […]

Pega 7.2: business objectives, requirements and specifications

If you are a Pega Business Architect, you will be familiar with Pega’s feature that lets you connect Business Objectives, Requirements and Specifications.

This feature is excellent for traceability but it may surprise you to know that I don’t use it exactly the way Pega tells you to.

Business […]

Deriving Business (User) Stories from your Business Architecture

For any kind of enterprise-wide change initiative, if you derive your backlog of Business Stories only from interviews with users, you may to end up with a patchwork of individual needs that don’t necessarily hang together, some of which will conflict with each other and which won’t give you the enterprise picture.

Pega Case Life Cycle Model – Part 1

Pega 7’s case life cycle modelling tools enable you to quickly model and demonstrate a high-level process design within Pega in front of your customer.

The tools I’m talking about are the life cycle view of a case type and the flow view of a process within a case type. While […]

Complexity versus Difficulty

On software development projects people have to estimate the effort involved. In doing so, one of the things analysts are asked to consider is the complexity of a process, but it surprises me how often analysts confuse complexity with difficulty.

The two concepts are mutually exclusive. A process can be simple, […]