BA METHODOLOGY
Procept's business analysis methodology development was designed to help organizations establish a BA Centre of Excellence that provides guidance on how gathering and documenting requirements and business processes is best to be performed within an organization. The standard package includes developing high-level methodologies and templates for:
- Problem investigation
- Business case development
- Process documentation
- Requirements elicitation and documentation
The major part of the methodology development is done in facilitated sessions with your staff. Each area listed above typically requires three days plus an additional three days for preparing and finalizing our report. The typical duration of this type of consulting engagement is fifteen business days, or three work weeks.
The above sections can also be substituted by other areas of greater concern for an increased ROI on this project.
The deliverables for this work are high-level processes and templates that can be used to perform essential aspects of business analysis work.
BUSINESS CASE DEVELOPMENT
For this consulting offering, Procept works with clients to prepare a compelling business case using the following approach:
- Determine the business problem or enhancement opportunity.
- Complete the problem analysis.
- Identify viable solutions.
- Evaluate each solution and recommend an optimal solution.
- Document the outcome of these steps in a suitable template selected from Procept's library of past business cases.
- Present the information to management for consideration and approval.
Procept ensures that the recommended solution addresses the business problem and is cost justifiable. Procept also validates other associated benefits from implementing its recommendations including compliance, litigation, support for current and future technologies, and improvements to productivity.
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
Using our deep understanding of requirements engineering best practices, Procept has helped many organizations learn to improve how they define new projects.
Projects exist to obtain the business benefits envisioned in their business cases so our approach always starts with a business case that defines the financial and non-financial objectives of a project and any relevant constraints. We then help our clients through identifying and documenting business requirements tied to each project objective. By tying requirements to specific business case objectives, we help clients only include work that has an explicitly-identified return, avoiding waste. Finally, we help clients identify and select solution options (a.k.a. "deliverables" or "scope" elements) that satisfy the requirements in an optimal way. By tying project scope directly back to business case benefits, we can maintain the right focus on maximizing project ROI.
Procept provides the management consulting, training, and coaching services to help our clients perform the above work; additionally, we offer an award-winning software solution (ReqSuite® RM) to facilitate teams of individuals collaborating on completing the aforementioned work. We have helped many organizations install and configure ReqSuite to meet their unique needs including:
- A product development group who used the tool to gather a complex set of detailed requirements from a large group of stakeholders that tied back to industry standards and government regulations.
- A services organization who wanted to better understand how all their business processes interrelate so that they could better conduct business process re-engineering without causing process breakage or conflicts.
- An R&D organization who wanted to optimize processes for prioritizing, tracking, and reporting on many hundreds of initiatives each year, while tying each back to a complex, multi-stakeholder funding model.
- And more...
Procept is the only authorized ReqSuite implementation partner in North America - a recognition by its developer (Osseno Software GmbH) of Procept's expertise in requirements engineering and our approach that ties everything back to the business case.
