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New Post 7/22/2012 1:53 PM
User is offline Niks
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How to Guide the Project in Right Direction 

 Hello,

I am working on a project which is a migration from the legacy system. I joined as BA on this project in midway where the previous BA's and PM's have written some documents related to this project.

I have given the responsibility to get the project on track as most of the documents created are not rite and missing some information.

My current PM has a very brief idea about the business process. When I asked him about level of correctness of the current BRD, he is clueless. 

This is my first project as a BA so  I am finding it a bit difficult to grasp all the things. Sometimes I am given some documents to analyze but find it difficult to find the flaw and if i ask my PM or my supervisor about that, they are not able to provide me the correct ans. There is some pressure regarding the deadline so rite now I am on the hot seat. 

I am trying my best to understand all the concepts and business process related to my project.  Rite now I m clue less about how should I drive this project.

This is a Naive BA looking for some expert advise and directions.

 

 

 
New Post 7/23/2012 12:59 PM
User is offline Anthony Chen
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Re: How to Guide the Project in Right Direction 

 Hi Niks, legacy conversion projects are always a challenge. The difficulty is understanding the full set of functionality that the business actually uses today. 

I have included the models that correspond to these. You can read more about these models on our blog

requirements.seilevel.com/blog

or in our book we have a section which discusses which models to use for a system replacement project.

http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Models-Software-Requirements-Beatty/dp/0735667721/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343069427&sr=8-1&keywords=visual+models

We have found the following general steps works well:

0) Business objectives model to have a shared understanding of the value the replacement system is supposed to create

1) Identify the business processes (Process Flow)

2) Identify the metrics associated with the business processes (KPI Model) so that you understand the level of throughput the business needs to have

3) Assign value to the processes based on the business throughput

4) CRITICAL STEP -Organize requirements by mapping them to the process flows (Requirements Mapping Matrix). Each process step will map to 3-4 requirements. This will help to ensure that you have a complete set of requirements

5) Map business rules to the requirements - each requirement can map to many business rules (but generally less than 10).

6) Create screen models that support the requirements (Display Action Response Model)

 

In addition you will probably need a few additional models like

1) ecosystem map to show all the interfaces to other systems

2) report tables - to show all the reports and decisions that the stakeholders use

3) Business data diagram to show the relationships of the data

4) data dictionary to detail out the data

5) org chart to make sure you fully understand the user population you need to work with

 

Comparing this list of models against what they have already delivered in the BRD

 
New Post 7/25/2012 9:37 AM
User is offline dldelancey
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Re: How to Guide the Project in Right Direction 

What role is the PM expected to play in guiding this project?  Seems like he's taking more of a back seat than I would be comfortable with myself.  Having said that, who are your stakeholders?  Those are the people I would be directing my questions to.  It's their expectations the solution will need to fulfill. 

 
New Post 7/25/2012 12:07 PM
User is offline Tony Markos
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Re: How to Guide the Project in Right Direction 

Hi:

For PM estimating,  prioritizing, and scheduling to properly occur, if the project is complex, the real battle is properly decomposing requirements.  Else, everything is a guess.

Tony

 

 
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