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Effective Business Analysis
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Research Review: Building Blocks for Enterprise Business Architecture 
By Eswar Ganesan and Ramesh Paturi
In this paper the authors study all the established meta-models and frameworks of Enterprise Business Architecture and extract the key ingredients to build a meta-model of their own. This composite meta-model, they feel, can lead to a better definition of business architecture thus ensuring effective business analysis.
Opinion: Functional Storyboards: Requirement Elicitation tool for COTS Evaluation
By Nandini Toley
Fitment evaluation of the COTS package is a must before it is adopted for an organization. The author opines that functional storyboarding can help in perfectly estimating and comparing the workflows in the existing system with the superior ones offered by the COTS package.
Viewpoint: Improving Requirements Accuracy through General Semantics
By Badhri Narayan C.S.
The business analyst is swarmed with ambiguous communication while capturing
requirements. There is a very little chance of requirements going amiss, if General Semantics is applied to analyze requirements, feels the author.
Framework: Business Analysis Using S2S Framework
By Anshuman Pramanick
Improving ROI of strategic IT initiatives is an imperative. Bad business-IT alignment can
play a spoilsport. The author suggests an S2S framework that helps validate IT requirements
against business strategy and maintain a positive buisness-IT alignment.
Perspective: Integrated Approach to Requirements Engineering
By Ashish Chandra, Ravishankar N and Tushar Sharma
The authors feel that poor elicitation of requirements can be detrimental to the
progress of an IT implementation. They suggest an integrated approach that includes
a standardized and structured set of procedures to Requirements Engineering that can prove more fruitful than the existing ones.
Practitioner’s Perspective: Are you Plagued with Unnecessary Costs in your IT Projects?
By Manu Goel
IT implementations are riddled with unforeseen costs and unexpected expenditures.
How does one mitigate unwanted budgetary shocks? Objective linked approach for
requirements development (OLAR) can come in handy to counter such problems, assures
the author.
Insight: Strategy Value Traceability in Enterprise Requirements Elicitation
By Luke Housego
Requirements keep changing all through the requirements elicitation phase. How does
then one assess their value under dynamic conditions? Tie requirements to a value
framework and look at them as enablers of strategy to ascertain their contributory value,
asserts the author.
Practitioner’s Solution: A Novel Approach to Software Requirements Analysis
By Anjaneyulu Pasala PhD and Ravi Prakash Gorthi PhD
The authors offer behavioral slicing as a unique way for requirements gathering and analysis.
Apart from finding gaps and errors in functional requirements, it also helps the business
analyst in adopting a structured approach towards business analysis through validations.
Spotlight: Requirements Management in Multi-project Environments
By Manideepa Chatterjee, Sandeep Anand M and Tejal Prakash Nemane
Identifying dependent and non-dependent requirements in a multi-project scenario is the key
to a successful implementation of an IT program. The authors suggest that an early detection
of overlaps can save cost and duplication and thus lead to effective requirements management.
The Last Word: Effective Business Analysts Build Cathedrals
By Huai-Ling Ch’ng
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