Business Analysis for Emerging Technologies

Kevin Coleman is a highly skilled senior level project and program manager/advisor with experience leading projects with labor budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar budgets across multiple industries.

  Business Analysis   Estimating   Requirements Management   Strategy  

Getting to the real needs of an organization is the objective for program and project business analysis. That is often a tough assignment for several reasons. Business analysis in support of projects and programs is challenging, to say the least. When you couple the existing challenge with the complexities of new and emerging technology, it adds to the difficulty.

When you are dealing with new and emerging technologies, the challenges of business analysis become even more daunting. It all boils down to a lack of a solid foundation of understanding about the new or emerging technology and the capabilities that are associated with them.

Be very cautious about the education and information provided by technology vendors. They tend to present the capabilities of their products, which is not representative of the capabilities that are available in the marketplace. Misalignment of the business’s requirements and the selected technology is a common occurrence, and in many cases that can be traced back to technological capability information. This—coupled with the operational issues that often arise when dealing with new immature emerging technologies—creates delays, a failure to meet expectations and other problems.

Another area where caution is urged comes from changing technological requirements. New and emerging technologies often are covered in the press…

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