Reflecting an enterprise-wide view, a common language model and expanded perspectives that include Agile, the third version of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide) has been released by the International Institute of Business Analysis for review by practitioners worldwide.
This case study summarizes a two-year journey, highlighting the challenges, opportunities, failures, successes and achievements during the implementation of an integrated information management system.
If you ask a group of individuals what benefits they expect to achieve by adopting agile methods, you’ll usually hear “faster delivery,” “higher quality,” “cheaper” and “lower risk.” Out of these, “faster” is the most common. Faster delivery can be elusive; the benefit of “cheaper,” however, may be illusory.
With more focus on strategy, more tool-driven automation and more diversity in project approaches, is there still a place for a PMO-driven center of excellence for project management?
Project teams in regulated industries must get compliance requirements right — a company’s reputation and legal standing depend on it. Here are eight best practices to help PMOs, product owners and business analysts to better understand complex regulatory environments, interpret rapidly changing regulations, and develop clear, complete requirements.
The role and persona of the business analyst (BA) on IT projects has changed. Let’s chart the course of the BA's rise, demise and rebirth.
The increasing acceptance of portfolio management indicates that the application of knowledge, processes, skills, tools and techniques to select the right work at the right time may have significant impacts on program, project and business success. Focusing on IT portfolio management, the author shares a practical method and metric system for implementing portfolio management. All proposed methods can be easily extended for business portfolio management.
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