This meeting followed the usual format with a presentation from Steve Danby, head of business analysis at Prudential, and an update on the IIBA from Martyn. Building a business analysis capability The presentation was preceded in the previous meeting with the distribution of a questionnaire (30 organisations responded) to determine the state of play for [...] Read more »
BABOK 2.0 is on the way
The 2.0 version of BABOK is due to be released by the end of the month and the senior leadership team have posted aslideshow on their blog. It can be found here – http://blog.theiiba.org/2009/03/babok-overview.html Immediate thoughts are that I like the fact they’ve consolidated 77 activities into 32. It was starting to look unwieldy and [...] Read more »
Trends in business analysis – my perspective
T I started in IT in 1991 and have been through a number of roles and jobs since then, only finding my calling and emerging as a business analyst in the last twelve years. I’ve recently been looking back and trying to see how the role has evolved in that period. Think enterprise, act local [...] Read more »
Review of Writing effective use cases by Alistair Cockburn
I reviewed this book as I believe there is little out there in the way of training or guidance on how to do use case modeling well. This is one of the few books that has a specific use case focus. Author Alistair Cockburn is a name you will come across if you spend any [...] Read more »
Business Object Modeling – an Introduction
In this article, I shall describe what is meant by business object modeling, where it comes from, the benefits of this approach, some basic principles and when it should be used. Business object modeling describes a static representation of the business domain under consideration in a project. It is static as it shows the [...] Read more »
IIBA UK Chapter Meeting on 25th Feburary 2009
John Zachman provided an extremely entertaining introduction to the Zachman framework followed by an update on forthcoming IIBA activities from Martyn Wilson, chairman of the IIBA. John Zachman Many of you will have heard of John Zachman as his framework has been around for thirty five years or so. It is used for that much [...] Read more »
