1. The Power of Three: BA, SA and PO
Working Together to Achieve Project
Success
by Valerija Savina
2nd International Business and System Conference BSC 2013

2. Hurray! Another day to create value
by developing new solutions
and gaining lot of knowledge and new skills!

3. Mean SW solution:
just software not business solution
inconsistent

5. Signs Your Project is Breaking the Rule
Organization team:
Don’t understand the specific business problem that
software aims to solve
Don’t have higher level view of the business
Don’t think about cost effectiveness of stated req'ts
Don’t think about transition requirements
SW solution delivering team:
Nobody knows rationales for requirements
Nobody understands how the pieces fit together
Developers get requirements from many sources

6. Action plan
Involve mindsets of three BA practitioners:
Business-oriented Business Analyst,
System Analyst and
Product owner

7. Agent –
Business-oriented Business Analyst

8. Agent –
Business-oriented Business Analyst
Habitat: Organization (business)
Distinguishing feature: Business need-oriented
Domain:
• Business and stakeholder requirements
• Answers to Why? What?
• Solution validations and assessment
• Black belt in transition requirements analysis
/! Good at digging into the organization's soul
Collaborates with stakeholders and system analyst

9. Agent - System Analyst

10. Agent - System Analyst
Habitat: Solution delivering team
Distinguishing feature: Technical-oriented
Domain:
• Solution requirements, details of the system
implementation
• Answers to How?
• Black belt in non-functional requirements analysis
/! Good at stealing personalities (designer, tester, project
manager)
Collaborates with BA (and stakeholders), product owner and
developers

11. Agent - Product Owner

12. Agent - Product Owner
Habitat: Solution delivering team
Distinguishing feature: Product leader
Domain:
• Product economics
• System features from A to Z
• Understands how the pieces fit together
/! Single authoritаtive source of req'ts for developers
/! Stands up for the product

13. SIA FMS (Financial Management Solutions) is a regional leader in
business software development, project management and
consulting. We develop, implement and support the enterprise
resource planning (ERP) system Horizon. FMS also provides IT
system integration, contract based development services and
works with an extensive range of business analytics and financial
planning solutions.
We have 2 teams delivering requirements:
• Horizon Experts team
• SA team

14. BA’s in Product Development Projects
BA
PO
SA
1) Customer
Expert
Expert
2) Customer
Expert
SA
3) Expert
Expert
Expert

15. Extras for
Product Development Projects
BA
2) Customer
PO
Expert
SA
SA
+ SA team is source of innovation
+ PO is validating req’ts
+ PO is a single point for integrators and sales force
+ SA team are potential Experts

16. BA’s in Custom Solutions
Development Projects
BA
PO
SA
1) Customer
SA
SA
2) Customer
SA
SA2
3) SA
SA
SA2
4) SA
SA
SA

17. Extras for Custom Solutions
Development Projects
BA
2) Customer
PO
SA
SA
SA2
+ Benefits of pair-analysis (quality, motivation)
+ PO is a great help for project manager
+ PO is single point for integrators
+ SA2 can be entry level specialist

18. Homework for
Organizations Owning Solutions
• Know your business requirements
• Make sure you have business-oriented BA on
your side to take care of your business needs
• Ask who is PO on your SW development
project

19. Homework for Solution Delivery Team
• Make sure you know rationale for your
requirements
• Ensure you have product owner to take care of
the solution
• Collaborate with your customer

20. Homework for you – BA Practitioner
Six Thinking Hats is a book by Edward de Bono.

21. Three Thinking Hats
for delivering requirements for
successful business solutions
Product Owner
Business-oriented Business Analyst
System Analyst

22. Thank you!