Business Analysis

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Business Analysis

• methods, fads and fashions
• Guy Beauchamp
• Business Analyst Solutions
• Stand 63

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Aims of this presentation
1. make the case for undertaking Business
Analysis 2. demystify Business Analysis3. make
the case for a pragmatic and practical analysis
of business changes
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1. make the case for undertaking Business Analysis
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1. make the case for undertaking Business Analysis
The Top 6 Reasons Projects Fail

• The Standish Group Chaos Report (1994)
• 365 executive managers
• 8,380 applications
• all major industry segments including banking,
  retail and wholesale.

Some of the contents of this slide were taken
from www.it-cortex.com
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Business Analysis Proverbs
1. make the case for undertaking Business Analysis

• Delivery is not the best time to analyse
  requirements
• Urban Wisdom

• A factor present in every successful project and
  absent in every unsuccessful project is
  sufficient attention to requirements.
• Suzanne James Robertson
• Requirements-Led Project Management

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1. make the case for undertaking Business Analysis
What is sufficient attention to
requirements? (I)
Average actual effort spent on each stage of the
development cycle
70
60
50
40
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10
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Requirements Analysis
Design
Code/test
based on a study by Staffordshire University
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What is sufficient attention to
requirements? (II)
Average Proportion of Errors Built in During
Development
90
80
70
60
50
40
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10
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Requirements Analysis
Code/test
Design
based on a study by James Martin
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What is sufficient attention to
requirements? (III)
Relative Cost of Correcting Requirements Errors
sourced from Barry Boehm
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How Much Poor Analysis can Cost

• Half of all bugs can be traced to requirement
  errors
• fixing these errors consumes 75 of project
  rework costs
• CONTRIBUTING TO
• The average project exceeds its planned schedule
  by 120
• 52.7 of projects will cost 189 of their
  original estimate
• Only 16.2 of projects will be completed on time
  on budget
• 30 of projects are cancelled before completion

Source Calculating your return on investment
from more effective requirements management IBM
article Dec 2003
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Summary

• The typical project
• expends least effort on analysis
• which is where most errors originate
• and whose errors cost most to fix!

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2. demystify Business Analysis
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Definition of terms for Business
AnalysisBusiness ltwhatevergt Analysisthe
process of breaking a concept down into more
simple parts, so that its logical structure is
displayed (OED)a  an examination of a
complex, its elements, and their relations b  a
statement of such an analysis (Merriam Webster)
2. debunk Business Analysis
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Framework underlying all analysis of change
2. debunk Business Analysis

• ANALYSIS of change requirements
• Process
• Organisation
• Location
• Data
• Application
• Technology
• Non-functional

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2. debunk Business Analysis

• The Fact Is
• Regardless of method or approach
• YOU STILL HAVE TO ANALYSE
• CHANGE REQUIREMENTS.

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Chain Of Reasoning
2. debunk Business Analysis

• Requirements must be assumed to be wrong until
  they are proved to be right

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-Links-in-the-Chain-Of-Reasoning-
2. debunk Business Analysis
Driver
Addressed by
Vision
Deliverable
Achieved as measured by
Contributes to
Objective
Benefit
Delivered through
Delivered by
Requirement Benefit
Requirement
Delivers
Enforces
Business Rule
Requirement Business Rule
Enforces
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• Euston take Northern Line southbound to
  Embankment
• Embankment take District line westbound to
  Kensington

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• Euston take Northern Line southbound to
  Embankment
• Embankment take District line westbound to
  Kensington

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-Links-in-the-Chain-Of-Reasoning-
2. debunk Business Analysis
Driver
Addressed by
Vision
Deliverable
Achieved as measured by
Contributes to
Objective
Benefit
Delivered through
Delivered by
Requirement Benefit
Requirement
Delivers
Enforces
Business Rule
Requirement Business Rule
Enforces
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3. make the case for a pragmatic and practical
analysis of business changes
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3. make the case for a pragmatic and practical
analysis of business changes
When Where are Business Analysts involved and
how do they help?
There is a chain of reasoning that leads from the
statement of a problem to the implementation of
solutions involving up to 10 groups of
people
Owners defines measures of success and
targets Business Analysts confirm document
Money!
Strategists determine the strategy to hit the
targets Business Analysts help do market
research, create strategy, challenge document
Sponsors establish a Programme that delivers the
strategy Business Analysts document Programme
TOR and build the Business Case
Programme Managers Institute Projects that
implement the programme Business Analysts
document the Project TOR
Project Stakeholders Business Analysts specify
requirements for Projects (in the Business Model)
Design Analysts design solution
that satisfies the requirements Business
Analysts protect requirements document
compromises
Solution Builders build solution Business
Analysts protect requirements document
compromises
Solution Builders Business test
solution Business Analysts ensure tested against
requirements

• Project managers
• Implement solution
• Business Analysts help with
• Process and data migration
• Cutover planning
• Rollout

• Users
• Accept solution
• Business Analysts help with
• MEASURING BENEFITS REALISATION

POST-IMPLEMENTATION Business Analysts feed back
to the Owner how well their measure of success
has been achieved
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If
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analysis of business changes

• If you can map all your analysis to components in
• the Chain of Reasoning
• If there are no gaps AND no breaks in the chain
• If those who can kill your project agree with
  your
• analysis
• Then your analysis is correct and whats more you
  are a Business Analyst my son.
• Sorry Rudyard!

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and finallythe secrets of doing Business
Analysis

• Agree the analysis method and approach you will
  use
• Get some trained Business Analysts
• Plan how, when and who to do the analysis
• Do the analysis
• Use the analysis products to develop and
  implement the solutions
• Er thats it.

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Thank-you!Questions?Guy BeauchampBusiness
Analyst SolutionsStand 63
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