we don't need bas... - the journey from denial to practice
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We don’t need Business Analysts…
…everyone should understand the business
IIBA UK North Branch seminar
21st April 2015
Defining programme content
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Programme content delivering
value for the customer
Business Analysts
Hardware specialists
Software specialists
Data specialists
Core Skills for Operational Excellence
• Standardised visual management
• Effective meetings management
• Hubs
A Yorkshire Water Hub
• Large Whiteboard
• Measures
• KPIs
• Stats
• People related data
Printed and stuck to the board
Board positioned where a team meeting can take
place in front of it so all can comment, contribute
and see the data
Business Analysis Visual Management
KanBan
• A visual display of all the projects, tasks and ideas that
we are or may be working on soon
• PowerPoint
• Split into categories:
– Ideas
– Approved ideas that are being worked up into a Concept
– Approved Concepts which are having their specific tasks defined
– Projects in deliver
– Project gone Live
• Names of those from the team also added
Business Analysis Visual Management
eKanBan
• The same elements that are on the KanBan, but stored
in a ShrarePoint List
• More information attached…
– Title
– Description
– Tags
– Whether parked or not
– Strategic Business Stream
– Whether it was in the Business Plan agreed at the beginning of
the year
– Cost estimate
– Benefit estimate
Business Analysis Visual Management
eKanBan
• The same elements that are on the KanBan, but stored
in a ShrarePoint List
• Can be displayed / ordered / filtered / grouped in
whichever way we feel is useful, e.g.
– By Strategic Business Stream - with cost, benefit and ROI
(calculated)
– By Team member
– Those updated in the last month / fortnight / week
– Those not updated in the last 3 months
– Those parked
– Sorted by whether they were on the original Business Plan
– Etc…
Other tools developed
• Skills matrix
• Terms and Acronyms
• Concerns, Causes and Countermeasures (CCCs)
• Lessons Learnt
• Successes
The future – a Business Analysis practice
• We have set up the tools and the environment for a
Business Analysis Hub, now we need to start using them
Community
Practice
• Operational Excellence Tools (Hub, etc)
• Define Best Practice
• Communicate best practice
• Coaching
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