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I am recognised by Pegasystems as a Certified Business Architect. But what does that mean? As you may know, Pega has Direct Capture of Objectives (DCO), a useful set of tools which can be used by experienced requirements analysts during the Inception and Elaboration phases of a Pega development to directly […] I saw a job advert on Jobserve and it’s typical of adverts that fail to grasp what a senior business analyst should be able to do for a client. Click here to read the advert before you proceed. So what’s wrong with it? I’ll go down through it as […] Direct Capture of Objectives has a revamped the look and feel in Pega 7 but little has changed. What is the same? Business Objectives Actors Requirements What has changed? Work Types are now called Case Types but the underlying thing seems to be the same. Use Cases are now […] Continuing on from Use Cases in PRPC – Part 3, the following tables will give Pega Business Architects an idea of how to use PRPC’s “Use Case Rule” to capture details about your Atomic Use Case. […] Continuing on from Use Cases in PRPC – Part 2, the following tables will give Pega Business Architects an idea of how to use PRPC’s “Use Case Rule” to capture details about your Software Use Case. […] In Part 1, we took a look at Pega’s definition of a Use Case and what the Application Profile Wizard allows Pega Business Architects to capture. In Part 2, we shall now take a look at four different types of Use Case and how they relate to PRPC. Business Use Case […] In a previous post I lamented the limited list of default requirement types that PRPC provides. However, there is a way to extend that list. A few months ago I was working as a Pega Business Architect and I asked a Pega Certified Lead Systems Architect (a former Pega employee, in […] In this blog post I aim to provide an appraisal of the Pega Developer Network article “Getting Started with SmartBPM”, based on my experiences working on Pega projects in the field. I am a certified Pega Business Architect and Methodology Black Belt, and here I provide an alternative to SmartBPM, which […] Is “Business Analyst” a Job Role Facing Extinction? I keep seeing this question popping up on discussion forums and it is getting tiresome. I find the question naïve and the following was my answer to a thread on LinkedIn today: Business analysis is an essential skill in any change […] Use Cases are a key concept Pega Business Architects should understand if they are planning to use PRPC’s Application Profile Wizard. If you are familiar with UML, Pega’s notion of a Use Case might confuse you at first. It is important to distinguish between a “Use Case Rule” (which is a […] |