Discovery and Planning for Business Analysis Competency

Want to improve business analysis competency but don’t know where to start?  Need a way to make sure management will support the effort?  This offering from DEA can help.

Many forward-thinking organizations have begun dedicated efforts to increase business analysis competency. But getting started is one of the biggest challenges these efforts face. Success requires an understanding of current business analysis practices, careful planning, and clear measureable goals against which progress and success can be gauged.  Without a solid business case to support the effort, work can lose momentum, focus and management backing.

A Discovery and Planning project from DEA can jump-start BA competency. We provide a fast-paced, comprehensive look into an organization’s current state and then focus on planning for the future development, rollout, adoption and formalization of business analysis best practices.

During Discovery and Planning Doreen Evans Associates reviews the existing practices that are working for you and combines them with our LINKProcess requirements methodology , years of project experience, and knowledge of business analysis best practices to:

• Identify challenges and missing components
• Recommend improvements
• Build a roadmap to make improvements in a practical, staged manner
• Develop a business case to justify the effort

These activities build upon each other to provide a complete picture of how business analysis competency can be improved and how the benefits that it offers can be realized by your organization. We’ll help you construct a plan to get to the level of maturity that you want to achieve, from informal communities of practice to centers of excellence.

Each discovery and planning project is unique and can be a standalone effort or part of a larger end-to-end Business Analysis Competency Improvement effort.

Most of us would never think of kicking off a project without a plan. If you are looking to begin a business analysis improvement initiative, treat this effort just like any other project and begin with a discovery and planning phase that determines what needs to be accomplished and sets the entire effort up for success.

Let us help you transform your organization and improve your business analysis competency. Contact DEA at info@doreenevans.com and let us know how we can help your project.