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The Requirements and Business Analysis Experts

Our Approach: Architectural Structure Driven by Models

In order to successfully gather, store, use and report on information for a business improvement or requirements project, it’s crucial to understand the kinds of information you need, the attributes of that information, and the possible relationships that will be valuable – in other words, the structure of the information. 

The best way to understand the structure of the needed information is to build a  meta model - a picture – of the kinds of information that should be captured.  This is a crucial step that we take at the start of each project we’re involved with.  The basic structure of the information we typically gather falls into several perspectives from business through to technical:

Perspective Artifacts 
Business Process
  • Business Context Model
  • Process Decomposition Model
  • Process Maps (BPMN)
Organization
  • Organization Chart
  • Role Map
  • Role/Function Matrix
  • Security Matrix
Product
  • Product Model
  • Product Rules
 Data
  • Data Dictionary
  • Entity Relation Model
  • Validation Rules
 Application
  • Use Cases
  • Business Rules
  • Screen Mockups
  • Screen Fields
 Technical
  •  System Context Model
  • Logical Business/System Architecture

Much like an architect who works with a client on a building project, our business analysts play the role of bridging the gap between defining business needs and building solutions.  They have deep experience in structuring information, in modeling both the problem and the solution, and in interpreting and translating business needs to the development staff. 

Contact DEA at 617-482-4444 and find out how DEA’s business analysis practitioners can help your projects succeed (read more…)