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Many companies are looking to mature their business analysis competency by establishing a Business Analysis Centre of Excellence (BA CoE). Why form a BA CoE? Where do we start? What’s the right model? Who owns it? How does it evolve? Building BA competency is not easy, and Joe explores real world examples and insights to shape a good -practice framework. If you are a customer, a manager or an implementer of Business Analysis, this presentation is a must see to help you on your journey towards Business Analysis enlightenment.
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A Good Practice Framework
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IIBA Chapter Meeting in Cape Town
28 July, 2011
Presented by Joe Newbert
Cut the preamble
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Learning outcomes
Path to Enlightenment
Pragmatic Delivery
Onwards, Upwards
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Try this at home
• No industry standard
• Pockets of thinking
• No “one size fits all”
• Art not science
• Basic plan, not premium
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PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT Learning Outcome 1.
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Mix of (In)Competence
Centre of Excellence
Competency Centre
Service Centre
Community of Practice
Area of Practice
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• Spectrum of Areas of Competency (AoC)
• CoP vs CoE, semantics or critical distinction?
• Underlying steps to maturity
Area of Practice
Independent and/or isolated practice area. Immature in its journey by learning on the job. Roles and deliverables are undocumented with no focus on training and development.
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Community of Practice
A grass roots collective to bring together practitioners from across the organisation to provide support; guidance; shared learning, mentorship and access to external informal and formal professional groups.
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Service Centre
Grass roots or top-down initiative with a defined level of maturity. Provide reactive support at a project level across the organisation. Resource utilisation and performance development is active.
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Competency Centre
Top-down or mature grass roots with best practice at its core. Offering a wide range of services to support the enterprise with high-priority portfolios. Metrics and continuous improvement in place.
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Centre of Excellence
High-performance enabler that’s tightly integrated within the business at a strategic level. Wide-ranging roles and skills across disciplines to drive business change. Proactive optimisation of self. Trusted.
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Out there, for real
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Myth
• Grass-roots elbow grease
• Blanket approach
• Single method of attack
• “Cook Book” Analysis
• Silver bullet
Reality
• Different forces
• Focused targets
• Methodology agnostic
• Tailored solutions
• Continue to struggle
PRAGMATIC DELIVERY Learning Outcome 2.
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Business Analysis Maturity Model
Informal
•Wild west lawlessness.
•Undisciplined process
•Individual reign
•Schedule/Budget over runs
Documented
•Basic cost & schedule procedures
•Guided approach
•Basic planning and management
Defined
•Standardised
•Documented
•Standardised
•Integrated
•Change Management
Managed
•Strategic plans, goals
•Measurements collected
•Process control
•Benefits management
Optimised
•Evolution strategy
•Continuous improvement
•Objective measurements
•Maturity assessments
•Project Audits
•Skill Assessments
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Area of Competency Offering
Consulting Services
• Competitive Analysis
• Strategic Analysis
• Business Process Engineering
• Business Architecture
• Feasibility Studies
• Business case
• Project Investment Package
• Staff augmentation
• Delivery Standards
Practices and methodologies
• Tools and Techniques
• Performance metrics
• Knowledge management
• Performance reporting
• Continuous improvements
Professional Development
• Skill assessments
• Education and training
• Mentoring and coaching
• Team building
• Role descriptions
• Career progression
• Competencies
• Skill requirements
Life-Cycle Governance
• Business Program analysis
• Strategic Project BA Resources
• Portfolio Management team process support and facilitation
• Benefits Management
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Project Implementation
Visioning and concept Definition
BA CoE vision and mission
Executive sponsor
Steering Committee
Business Case
Stakeholder Management Strategy
Organisational and Individual Assessments
Organisational readiness assessment
BA Practices Maturity assessment
Individual business analysts knowledge and skills assessments
Implementation Planning
Kick-off workshop
Project Definition
Project Planning
Change Management
Benefits Management
Budget/Resource approval
Form BACoE Team
BA Standards, practices, tools and metrics
BA Education & Training
BA Consulting Services
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Organisational design
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Nine packed tips
Identify SMART goals and objectives
Treat the improvement initiative as a
project
Ensure executive buy-in and enforce
new practices
Adopt best practices from
within the organization
Incentivise outcomes (drivers
and adopters) Live the change Seek criticism
Embed a learning culture
Over communicate to everyone meaningfully
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ONWARDS, UPWARDS Learning Outcome 2.
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Tomorrows world?
Greater emphasis on
upfront requirements
Convergence of disciplines
Variety of analysis
approaches
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I’ve talked enough
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Done. Here’s how we can connect.
http://www.slideshare.net/newbert
joe.newbert@bcmg.co.za
joe.newbert
http://za.linkedin.com/in/newbert
http://www.twitter.com/newbert
“You have not failed no one Grasshopper, only your own ambition.”
Poe, Kung Fu Panda.
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