Business Analysis Templates & Aides

Business Analysts, IT developers and consultants often ask for sample requirements specification as a starting point in their specific project. This document is such a specification. It is a template filled out with a complex example: requirements for an Electronic Health Record system (EHR).

Business Case Template - an MS Word template with pre-set fonts, styles, chapter headers and guidelines.

The goal of a business case document is to capture the rationale for starting a project or task.

This new release of the Agile Extension offers information on business analysis in agile lifecycles; the mapping of information back to the BABOK® Guide 2.0; descriptions of over 20 new business analysis techniques useful in an agile environment; and key principles regarding agile business analysis.

 At a recent presentation I gave to Project Manager's regarding BA's, they were very interested in seeing a Requirements Traceability Matrix.

BPMN Stencils for Visio 2002 and Visio 2003 (*.vss) and a template (BPMN_Template.vst) of BPMN symbols including:

• Start, End, and Intermediate Events
• Tasks, Subprocesses, and Gateways
• Flow Elements and Artifacts

Improvement of this process at Big Corp began with the manager of the RMA processing team clearly defining the following goals:
»» Average overall processing time not to exceed 7 hour SLA
»» Keep current RMA staffing levels at or below 20 individuals
»» Reduce RMA processing costs by 25%

This is great matrix/mapping between the BABOK v2.0 Knowledge Areas and the business analysis techniques corresponding to those areas.