Project Initiation

 

 

First we help everybody understand the why:
We facilitate approval from stakeholders of a baseline of requirements that is grounded on their strategic intent

 

 

+ SCRUM

 

 

We then flesh out these requirements in JIRA stories that are ready for development. We create a steady sprint rythm with your teams, accelerating story mapping, refinements and acceptance

 

BA SERVICE

Leverforce functions as an end-to-end business analysis service (Project Initiation + Scrum)
This phased approach (engaging business and IT providers separately) optimizes stakeholders’ time, ensures solutions are business-driven, and rationalizes competing estimations of delivery by 3rd parties.

 

PROJECT INITIATION SERVICE

Elicitation & Collaboration with Business: A Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) will elicit, specify and model requirements gathered from stakeholders, making sure that business strategy is driving the changes proposed by the initiative.

Define Design Options: The Business Analyst then works with your solution architects and implementation experts to define a high level design of the technical components of the solution, and of the operational and organizational changes needed to implement it successfully.

 

SCRUM SERVICE

User Story Mapping:  The BA takes on the Project Owner role during the scrum and facilitates joint design with the development team, fleshing out project initiation requirements in JIRA user stories.

Refinements & Acceptance: The BA brokers agreements on stakeholder prioritization to enable epic and sprint planning. He also clarifies and refines acceptance criteria, and expectations on the ´definition of done´ for the user stories. As the technical team is ready to deliver the functionality, the BA remains engaged to facilitate user acceptance of delivered products.

 

OUR PRACTICE

We pursue the right mix of People, Tools and Processes to make our practice efficient and effective: 

Our BAs hold the CBAP® designation. They are seasoned requirements managers with thousands of hours of certified professional experience.

We make a smart use of Open Source tools during Project Initiation and integrate your approved requirements seamlessly into your JIRA instance when working on scrums.

We follow a down-to-earth application of the Business Analysis Framework of reference (BABOK®) when conducting business analysis activities. We maintain and share the body of guidelines and knowledge that support our BA activities in the Leverforce Academy. This flexible framework enables us to follow any methodology implemented by our clients: AGILE, SAFE, ITIL®, Waterfall, etc.

  • THE TOOLS

    The Leverforce tool is a system of record for requirements that fully integrates with your JIRA software instance. This allows us to maintain end to end requirement traceability Read More
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  • THE ACADEMY

    Leverforce academy is our knowledge management platform to share guidelines, assets, and training resources with clients seeking to improve BA competencies Read More
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  • WHAT IS A REQUIREMENT? +

    By Larry Velarde, CBAP®. On the importance of clarifying requirement terminology throughout the phases of an IT project. Read More

  • DOCUMENTING SIPOC VIA UML +

    By Larry Velarde, CBAP®. BA Video Tip: using XMI to capture business context for requirements Read More

  • BRINGING BA BEST PRACTICES TO ITIL® (PART 1) +

    By Larry Velarde, CBAP®. Planning the Business Analysis Approach in a service management context Read More

  • BRINGING BA BEST PRACTICES TO ITIL® (PART 2) +

    By Larry Velarde, CBAP®. Conducting stakeholder analysis in a service management context Read More

  • ENSURE ROI DRIVES THE REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT EFFORT +

    By Larry Velarde, CBAP®. On how technologists either endure the wait or the blame in IT projects, and what CIOs can do about it. (Part I) Read More

  • ITIL V3 & USER REQUIREMENTS +

    By Larry Velarde, CBAP®. On how technologists either endure the wait or the blame in IT projects and why ITIL v3 could use an extra bit on business requirements. (Part II) Read More

  • AGILE BA IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE +

    By Larry Velarde, CBAP®. AGILE enthusiasts are sometimes so excited about avoiding big design and big planning that they tend to carry their skepticism on “big” efforts beyond the solution domain. This is a mistake. Read More

  • COMBINING CUSTOMER CENTERED DESIGN AND SIX SIGMA TECHNIQUES +

    By Larry Velarde, CBAP®. A good example of adjusting techniques to match the different thinking patterns of business and IT stakeholders. Read More
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