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Business Systems Requirement Analysis (BSRA)
(Systematically integrating process, data and business rules)
As the bridge from Planning to Design, Business System Requirement Analysis (BSRA) builds upon the results of Enterprise Architecture or Information Strategy Planning to document business system requirements. To be successful, you need a comprehensive methodology which is flexible as well as replicable in addition to modeling tools and techniques. A BSRA project is usually initiated from two sources. It could come from systems planning or be initiated to address a specific business need. In either case it is important that current processes and data sources are analyzed and business rules are extracted and documented. Equally important is to improve process in order to solve the current system problems and take advantage of the new system features.
No project can succeed if business analysts did not participate in the business system analysis. The data gathering, validation and approval are key steps for delivering a system that meets business needs. The project must have milestones at which point senior management is involved in decision making.
This presentation includes the discussion of the methodology that evolved over 30 years of PDC’s consulting experience. The methodology integrates the aspects of enterprise architecture, information engineering and business process management.
Session 1:
- The role of BSRA in the system development life cycle (SDLC)
- LinkingEnterpriseArchitecture with BSRA
- BSRA methodology
- Planning and scoping the project
- Project Initiation
- Data Gathering
- Current Process Analysis – Flow charts and Process maps
Break
Session 2:
- Service Analysis – service profiles
- Problem resolution – Root cause analysis
- Process Improvement
- Proposed Process charts and Service profiles
- Data Modeling - Entity/attribute documentation
- Business rules
- Transition to Business System Design
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