Want a Career in Business Architecture? Start Here
Analyst Catalyst Blog
APRIL 25, 2024
Here are three steps to take when considering a career in business architecture. And no, it's not just about training.
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Why Your Business Needs Data Modeling and Business Architecture Integration
Dataversity
MAY 31, 2024
Data modeling provides organization to your facts, whereas business architecture defines the operational mechanisms of your […] The post Why Your Business Needs Data Modeling and Business Architecture Integration appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
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What is Business Architecture ?
Business Analyst Mentor
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
What is Business Architecture and how do you Define Business Architecture? The Business Architecture Guild and several related professional bodies and industry standards provides a definition of business architecture as:
What is Business Architecture?
The BAWorld
JULY 17, 2021
Business Architecture is a holistic framework for aligning an organization with its goals, and in turn, making it more competitive. In this article, we’ll discuss what business architecture is? Business architecture is the blueprint of a company. Definition of Business Architecture.
Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling
Leading Agile
MARCH 23, 2022
Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. And I want to go to a topic, I haven’t discussed this with anybody on the podcast, I’ve done business architecture. Listen now. Agile to Agility Website.
Exploring the Role of Business Architecture in Large-Scale Transformation
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Mike Cottmeyer sits down with two LeadingAgile consultants, Melissa Roberts and Len Greski, to discuss the value of business architecture, how it enables Transformation, and some of the things that are preventing business architecture from achieving real results.
Exploring the Role of Business Architecture in Large-Scale Transformation
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Mike Cottmeyer sits down with two LeadingAgile consultants, Melissa Roberts and Len Greski, to discuss the value of business architecture, how it enables Transformation, and some of the things that are preventing business architecture from achieving real results.
Business Architects use business analysis or do business analysis practitioners use Business Architecture
Business Analysts
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
by Business Analysis, Business architecture is a commonly used term in the business analysis domain as well in most organisations. Like many things in the English language and in the business analysis world, the term “business architecture ” means many things to many people!
Exploring the Role of Business Architecture in Large-Scale Transformation
Leading Agile
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Mike Cottmeyer sits down with two LeadingAgile consultants, Melissa Roberts and Len Greski, to discuss the value of business architecture, how it enables Transformation, and some of the things that are preventing business architecture from achieving real results.
Business Architecture: The Ins and Outs with Whynde Kuehn
Bridging the Gap
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Whether you’re learning about business architecture for the first time or dreaming of ways to grow your BA career into a business architecture role, my conversation with Whynde Kuehn will help you discover the value of this role in an organization and what you can do to bridge that gap in your career.
How DevOps Enables Business Architecture Alignment
Leading Agile
JULY 7, 2021
Additionally, we’ll discuss the common failure modes we often see in our clients’ business architecture. Then, we’ll identify opportunities where you can implement DevOps practices alongside Agile methodology to improve your Agile metrics, accelerate business alignment, and achieve your desired business goals.
Business architecture with Zachman
Capiro
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Generic Business Architecture. Before looking at the Zachman framework for an architecture, take a look at the accompanying diagram; The business process architecture shows the key business processes and their inter-relationships. This information might include concepts such as Customer or Product.
Business Architecture (Feat. Wouter Nieuwenburg)
BA Brew
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Mike and Jonathan welcome guest Wouter Nieuwenburg to talk all things Business Architecture. The crew discuss the differences between the Business Architect and Business Analyst roles and what happens in that ‘grey area’ where respective toolkits overlap. AssistKD offers a choice of Business Architecture courses.
Crafting Valuable Requirements Using Business Architecture and Artificial Intelligence
Modern Analyst
OCTOBER 5, 2024
Planning, managing, and delivering business requirements are daunting undertakings in any organization. It requires a lot of human resources and despite great efforts, the success rate of digital transformation project delivery is usually very low in most organizations, according to Boston Consulting Group and the Harvard Business Review.
How DevOps Enables Business Architecture Alignment
Leading Agile
JULY 7, 2021
Additionally, we’ll discuss the common failure modes we often see in our clients’ business architecture. Then, we’ll identify opportunities where you can implement DevOps practices alongside Agile methodology to improve your Agile metrics, accelerate business alignment, and achieve your desired business goals.
Business Analyst Skills for Every Job in Business Analysis
Passionate BA
JUNE 9, 2024
I also discuss the most complex business analysis perspective—business architecture, including roles like Business Architect and Enterprise Architect, and skills like business architecture models and enterprise frameworks. You will understand BPM tools, methodologies, and frameworks.
Master TOGAF Architecture Development Method in 2024 | Simplilearn
Simplilearn
APRIL 30, 2024
TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) ADM Cycle is an approach for creating and managing business architectures. It provides a strategy to organizations for building, managing, and maintaining their architectures in a well-organized way.
What Is Business Analysis | Who Is a Business Analyst
Passionate BA
MAY 29, 2024
Business Architecture Perspective Moving on to another perspective. Business architecture is a blueprint for how an organization operates. It provides a structured way to understand, plan, and organize the components of a business to ensure they align with the company and strategic direction.
Business Architect vs Enterprise Architect
Passionate BA
OCTOBER 21, 2024
He spent a lot of time on researching business architect vs enterprise architect jobs. In this video, we talk about two professions that are the pinnacle of professional growth for business analysts – at least one of the branches – business architecture and enterprise architecture.
Using Value Stream Maps to Identify Improvement Opportunities
Leading Agile
MARCH 25, 2024
In this third installment of our value stream mapping series, Mary shows Lance and Dave how to apply the technique of value stream mapping to your business architecture and capabilities so that you can make more informed, intentional, data-driven decisions to improve your business. Want to Listen Instead?
What is CBA (Certified Business Architect) | Tips and Guidance in 2022
Business Analyst Mentor
MARCH 13, 2022
What is CBA (Certified Business Architect)? A business architecture certification provides a wide range of benefits for the field, for businesses who benefit from the practice and for the individual.
The Book Look: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots
The Data Administration Newsletter
APRIL 19, 2022
I know very few people who specialize in one area of IT/business architecture yet have practical knowledge of how all of the areas fit together. Roger has expertise in business process management, but has deep and vast knowledge of all facets of an organization’s business architecture. It is […].
What is Business Architect?
Business Analyst Mentor
DECEMBER 3, 2021
What is Business Architect and how do you Define Business Architect? The Business Architecture Guild and several related professional bodies and industry standards provides a definition of business architect as:
How to Use Product Extraction to Break Technical Dependencies
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
In this panel clip, Mike Cottmeyer CEO of LeadingAgile poses the question: What is the relationship between business architecture and product extraction? To dive deeper into the discussion about product extraction, click here: How DevOps Enables Business Architecture Alignment.
Understanding the Work of an Agile Transformation
Leading Agile
APRIL 11, 2024
But a shift in mindset isn’t going to address the real organizational issues, business architecture issues, technology architecture issues, HR issues, and technical debt that reside within your organization.
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5 Different Perspectives in Business Analysis
Modern Analyst
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
The BABOK® Guide describes five prominent ones that represent common approaches to Business Analysis: Agile, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Business Architecture, and Business Process Management.
Strategies for Ensuring Security in Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Smart Data Collective
AUGUST 21, 2023
As we’ve seen, VM-level encryption secures workloads inside and outside the business architecture. Conclusion The solution is to use in-guest encryption with keys that stay under the control of the VM owner —the organization itself—to guarantee protection inside the data.
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High-Impact Business Analysis: Special Skills And Mindset That Generate Success
Analysts Corner
JUNE 27, 2023
The BABOK Guide lists 50 techniques and dozens more can be found in additional IIBA publications for specific contexts such as Agile Analysis, Product Ownership Analysis, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, and Business Architecture.
The Future of Composable Business
Timo Elliott
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
A core ERP provides those business capabilities that every company needs to do, and a platform upon which you can then differentiate and compose those differentiated capabilities to deliver something different. What did we all do as technologists? We all got excited about the technology and just jumped straight in there.
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Customer experience architecture
Clarasys
MARCH 31, 2022
Your business architecture – the mapping of your business capabilities and supporting infrastructure – is what underpins the experiences your customers have. Customer-centricity must be integrated into your entire business architecture. Use these to guide and structure your CX improvement strategy.
From Laid Off to Mentor of Business Analysts: Anna
Bridging the Gap
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
In this interview, you’ll discover how: The program built on Anna’s experience, while also providing a new layer of depth and knowledge to some of her favorite aspects of business analysis. It exposed me to areas that I wouldn’t necessarily touch as a functional business analyst, such as the ERDs and the system and the data items.
BABOK Strategy Analysis
Watermark Learning
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Future State Description – The set of conditions necessary to meet the business need and to define success. Potential Value – the value that may be realized if the future state is implemented expressed in terms of benefits vs costs Assess Risks A strategy that fails to factor in risks is most likely to fail.
Which Business Analysis Certifications to I need?
Analysts Corner
JANUARY 8, 2023
Of course it’s not just the certification, you’ll also need to gain hands-on experience.
Business value streams and capabilities
BA Coach
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Examples of this could be increased customer satisfaction, implementation of a more efficient business process or the automation of a tedious tasks thereby freeing staff up to perform more challenging work. Agile teams, through their deliverables, impact business architecture elements such as business capabilities and business value streams.
Customer experience architecture
Clarasys
MARCH 31, 2022
Your business architecture – the mapping of your business capabilities and supporting infrastructure – is what underpins the experiences your customers have. Customer-centricity must be integrated into your entire business architecture. Use these to guide and structure your CX improvement strategy.
What is Hybrid Cloud infrastructure and why is it important?
BizAcuity
JULY 26, 2021
Definitely, without a proper understanding of your business architecture and operations, there is a high risk that your business might face critical issues and a high risk of potentially fall on the wrong side of compliance regulations. .
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The Dawn of Cloud Based BI
BizAcuity
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
And that can be possible by Business Intelligence. BI is the partner that today’s businesses need. It enables organizations to take a close look at their business architecture with the help of technology and offers important insights.
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The First Step to Creating Business Value
Leading Agile
MARCH 22, 2021
And so, oftentimes the starting place for organizational structure is to look at the business architecture using a technique called business capability modeling.
The Future of Business Analysis: Exploring Diverse Career Pathways
Business Bullet
MAY 13, 2023
Business Change Managers: Business change managers help organizations navigate change by developing change management strategies and supporting employees through the change process. Business Architecture: Business architects help organizations develop and implement enterprise-wide strategies that align with their business goals.
Seeing Your Vision
Leading Agile
APRIL 26, 2021
There are well-understood organizational design patterns and business architectures to orchestrate the manner in which work gets done to support a vision. Impacting and empowering others in ways she could never imagine. Curating a vision releases our potential and forces our resolve to do the same.
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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Leading Agile
JANUARY 21, 2021
What we had to flip them into first was a business capability aligned organization organized around their business architecture. And then what you start to see is that there’s clusters of dependencies across that business architecture. He came from a business architecture background.
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Levels and roles of business analysis
Capiro
JULY 19, 2017
Levels of business analysis. This article considers 3 levels of business analysis. Strategic : Business transformations; Portfolio management; Business change; Business architecture and Target operating models; Business agility; Benefits realisation.
A Simple Guide to Assess Your Agile Maturity Level
Netmind
JANUARY 13, 2021
I mostly found that business agility and the existence of references to a good business architecture were missing from many of them. So, I set out to put something together that made sense to me, based on a mash-up of my experience as a business analyst, a project manager, and an agilist. Teams are thriving.
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Blog: IIBA BABOK Version Three Released This Week
IAG Consulting
APRIL 17, 2015
International Institute of Business Analysis® (IIBA®) has just releasing a new version of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) which has expanded the scope of the standard to new areas like business architecture and BPM, revamped the knowledge area and task structure, and added dozens of additional techniques to the guide.
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