Business Analysis
Business analysis is an excellent starting point for understanding the end users, their environment and how the product meets their needs. We work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, services and systems. Business analysis allows us to provide an effective link between the business and product development. As usability is often the defining factor between products, knowing how your product meets the end users requirements is a valuable asset.
Timing
Typically, we use business analysis during the Discovery phase to analyse business requirements and assess opportunities in the context of end user requirements and identify product, service and functional requirements.
Methodology
We use commonly accepted business research practices. A business analysis can involve interviews, JAD, RAD, Agile or as in-depth as full blown ethnographic research or contextual inquiry. Usually is involves a combination of methods.
Benefits
- Early Business-case analysis
- Elicitation and documentation of real requirements.
- De-risking of the decision making process through giving insight into the user expectations and experience.
- High level feasability studies.
- Design and Review project deliverables.
- Review and validation of use cases.
- Assessment of new services and processes.
Duration
A business analysis could take as little as 3 weeks, depending on the methods used, the amount of end user involvement and product requirements that are analyzed.
Deliverables
Business Analysis Documentation that can include: Executive Summary, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Non Functional Requirements, Wireframes, UI Specification, Business Case, Traceability Matrix, User Procedures, Training of system enhancements.