商品簡介
Since the first few years of the 21st century, the number of organizations and people using projects and programs to achieve their goals and objectives has grown dramatically, particularly within the IT and software development sector; yet failure rates continue to be quite high. According to reports issued by leading research groups, poor stakeholder requirements gathering and management continues to be one of the leading causes of project and program failure.The role of the business analyst (BA) has seen rapid growth over the past decade, and for good reason.Business analysis is a hybrid function that evolved from the systems analysis role over several decades into one where the individuals performing it have both a good understanding of the business and of the IT and software used to support the business. One set of activities that is the BA's specialty is the eliciting and management of accurate product requirements. Recent research has shown that when this BA role is properly executed in collaboration or partnership with the project or program manager (PM), higher quality product and project requirements are produced and managed resulting in higher success rates, with solutions that deliver business value and products and services that better satisfy stakeholder and customer needs. While leading experts all agree that collaboration between the PM and BA roles is key, the matter of how remains a subject of debate.This innovative guide shows how to address the challenges associated with the definitions of these roles and the gaps, intersections, overlaps, and touch points between the PM and BA to reduce waste, improve efficiency and effectiveness, and increase benefits to the organization. It demonstrates how this can be achieved without adding resources, going through duplication of effort, waste, and misunderstandings that lead to failure. This essential reference evaluates the PM and BA roles current contrasting perceptions, defines the roles they should fulfill, and describes how to ensure the PM/BA partnership is maintained from the business case, through to project initiation, execution, implementation and post-project evaluation. KEY FEATURES ‧ Applies concepts that are aligned with the PMI-PBASM, CBAPR/ CCBAR and PMPR certificates, the Business Analysis for Practitioners – A Practice Guide, the PMBOKR Guide, the BABOKR, and PRINCE2 ‧ Divides the PM and BA roles in aligning strategy to organizational goals and estimating; addressing risks, constraints, assumptions, dependencies, and communication; and managing relationships, stakeholder expectations, organizational priorities, resources, scope, requirements, and documentation.
作者簡介
Ori Schibi is President of PM Konnectors, a Toronto-based privately held corporation. This author and speaker is an instructor and part-time professor, Project Management Professional (PMPR), and certified PRINCE2R (Practitioner), with an MBA from York University. He co-founded the PMI Southern Ontario Chapter—Business Analysis Community.Ori is a thought-leader and subject matter expert with over 25 years of experience in driving operational and process improvements, software implementations, and complex programs to stabilize business, create growth and value, and lead sustainable change. An underlying theme in Ori’s work is value creation through establishing collaborative relations between business and IT and with customers, bridging gaps and building partnerships, and getting teams to focus on the main goals of creating value and customer satisfaction. Cheryl Lee is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAPR), Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBASM) and Project Management Professional (PMPR), with an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Toronto. As a highly experienced business analysis and project management practitioner and trainer, Cheryl has mastered the ability to harmonize the PM and BA roles in order to deliver seamless and successful implementations. This author, speaker, and passionate business analysis nerd never misses an opportunity to help mentor and inspire other PMs and BAs. She has conducted multiple public webinars and presentations at conferences, chapter meetings, and local colleges and universities.
