Business Analysts for Project Success

Need business analysts trained in the latest techniques?  Need leaders for your requirements projects?  Want strong practitioners who can build quality requirements while mentoring others?

Doreen Evans Associates’ business analysis practitioners have deep experience in projects of all types and sizes.  But we don’t just provide a body and let it go at that; we quality check all deliverables, provide a process, and support our BAs throughout with our internal center of excellence.   If you have the project, we have the experience to make it a success.

We can help you with:

Requirements planning and project scoping  Two-to-four weeks spent on clarifying your project goals, laying out requirements activities, and defining scope with DEA’s experienced facilitators can pay off many times over in having a project roadmap that everyone can agree to.

Requirements for an RFP  Identifying clear and complete requirements before sending out an RFP to vendors is key to getting a solution that genuinely fits your needs.  DEA has developed a five-step process for building RFPs that gathers input from all stakeholders and builds buy-in for the solution.

Configuration requirements for a vendor solution  Vendor solutions must typically be configured and sometimes customized by code changes in order to support an organization’s business rules and business processes.  DEA provides skilled business analysis consultants armed with a highly-productive process to obtain quality configuration requirements.

Detailed solution requirements  Defining comprehensive solution requirements will vastly increase the success of your organization’s projects.   To manage the complexity of large-scale projects, you need business analysts armed with the experience, the knowledge, the techniques and the tools to lead the early requirements efforts and to advocate for and manage the requirements through to user acceptance. 

Requirements for projects using an Agile approach  Agile techniques can quickly and efficiently deliver software, yet Agile development has its risks: lack of structure and documentation, insufficient software design, and an increased risk of scope creep, just to name a few. If you’re starting an Agile initiative or want to improve your existing techniques, DEA can provide business analysts who can lead the requirements process.

Business planning and enterprise analysis  Before investing in expensive initiatives, make sure you have a firm understanding of the business problems you are trying to address.  By performing domain analysis, you get a holistic view of your operations, your bottlenecks and, most importantly, your opportunities for improvement.  These efforts, sometimes called “discovery projects,” can lead to a business case for one or more solution efforts.   

Building business process excellence  Are your business processes undocumented?  Are you evaluating where to focus your resources and need the ability to analyze the impact of proposed changes?  This service offering helps you gain a clear and coherent picture of the business process, how it works now, and (perhaps most important) how it can be improved.

Supporting compliance efforts  Documenting your business processes is a critical step in maintaining compliance with government, industry, or internal regulations.  Visualizing and modeling how your process operates can help you identify where the compliance risks are and what can be put in place to mitigate those risks.   

Without good requirements, projects fail at an alarming rate. But to get good requirements, you need superior business analysts, and not all business analysts are created equal.  We have the right people, each with the high level of skills that span the many roles BAs need to play:  process analyst, data analyst, enterprise buisness architect, systems analyst, requirements analyst.  We’ve gathered requirements for building insurance agency portals, replacing legacy systems, bringing in vendor solutions, developing new products, building business cases, and enabling analytics and reporting capabilities.   

We offer a managed business analysis solution - that is, one or a team of business analysts who are thoroughly trained and possess a deep knowledge of business analysis processes, tools and deliverables.    We can complement your team, lead a project, or completely staff a major effort on both business and system-focused projects.

Contact DEA at info@doreenevans.com and let us know how we can help your project.