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Business Model vs. System Model: eCommerce

by Ronald G. Ross on May 11, 2012

In yesterday’s post I talked about the difference between business models and system models: http://goo.gl/CMMPi  To make a long story short, business models talk directly about real-world things (as business people do); systems models talk about surrogates for real-world things (as system designers do). Not the same thing!
Some people argue that the separation between business [...]

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What’s the Difference Between Business Requirements and Functional Requirements?

by Ronald G. Ross on May 10, 2012

We’re teaching our online training course next week: Business Analysis with Business Rules: From Strategy to Requirements. http://goo.gl/Vnko3 Hope to see you there!
Naturally, we’ll be talking a lot about business requirements. Are business requirements the same as functional requirements? No!
Functional Requirement vs. Business Requirement
Wikipedia describes a functional requirement as …
“a requirement that defines a function [...]

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Creating a Business Model: Walk the Walls!

by Ronald G. Ross on April 20, 2012

In running facilitated sessions, we like to create each kind of business model on a different wall.  We find that the physical act of walking or shifting focus from one wall to another helps participants rapidly grasp and remember what each wall represents.  It also helps business leads and Business Analysts identify disconnects and gaps [...]

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Are You Struggling with Requirements? Project Off-Track?

by Ronald G. Ross on April 18, 2012

Guest Post by Senior Consultant to Large Organization
I am struggling on a project right now where the requirements were never properly collected in the beginning. So we’re now going back to our requirements to try and sort out what the business really wants.  
As this process of validating the original requirements started, I had just [...]

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How Many Different Ways Can Your Organization Be ‘Silo-ed’? Why You Need to Address Every ‘Silo-ing’

by Ronald G. Ross on April 10, 2012

‘Silo’ is so common as an industry buzzword we mostly just take it for granted. The usual sense is ‘functional’ silo or ‘organizational silo’.
I recently heard ‘no man stands alone’ (‘alone’ = ‘silo-ed’) as a common-sense justification for Big-P process. (See http://goo.gl/Cuk3s) That logic is simply flawed. Here are other ways your business can be [...]

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How Business Rules, Decisions, and Events Relate in True-to-Life Business Models

by Ronald G. Ross on November 10, 2011

What is operational business know-how? How can you model it? What results can you achieve by doing so?
The answers lie with creating true-to-life business models based on behavioral rules, decision rules, operational business decisions, and operational business events — all as first-class citizens. Understanding their intertwined roles is key to creating top-notch business solutions and [...]

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Zachman 3.0 Announcement – Our First-Look Notes Part 2

by Ronald G. Ross on August 29, 2011

Our Editor for BRCommunity.com, Keri Anderson Healy, attended the announcement event last week for version 3.0 of the Framework. Now she’s back home and has had a chance to share the rest of her notes.
If you missed the first post, here’s a zipped pdf of the new 3.0 version again (with permission): ZF3.0.zip [approx 1.5M]. An official [...]

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Zachman Makes Headlines

by Ronald G. Ross on August 24, 2011

Believe it or not, this is real news!

 
For those of you who know or have ever heard Zachman speak, I know this will come as a shock. Part of his 3.0 Release?
Source: Real-time photo supplied by Keri Anderson Healy, Editor, BRcommunity.com
 
 

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Business Capability … You Have to Know in Order to Do

by Ronald G. Ross on July 31, 2011

As many of you are aware, the Business Rules Forum Conference is now one of three conferences in the annual Building Business Capabilities (BBC) Conference (http://www.buildingbusinesscapability.com/), which includes the Business Analysis Forum, the official conference of the IIBA. So Gladys and I have had to do some hard thinking about the meaning of “business capability”. [...]

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