Enterprise Architect in a typical day of a Business Analyst

Overview

Technology is a critical part of all business services and operations. The systems implementing business services and operations are integrated and connected to each other with varied degree of dependencies. This makes it very essential for a Business Analyst to take a holistic approach to define problems and recommend solutions.

This webinar shows how a Business Analyst uses Enterprise Architect in a typical day to help them with all their Business Analysis activities and manage all Business Analysis information like RAID logs, requirements model, requirement documents, test cases etc from within Enterprise Architect.

In this webinar, you will learn how Enterprise Architect can be used to:

Manage everyday BA activities like daily tasks, documenting test reports, validating requirements, documenting risks, issues, actions and decisions, etc.
Organize and maintain BA artifacts like functional, non-functional and technical requirements, use case models, business process models, defect logs etc.
Engage stakeholders in remote discussions using EA collaborate feature.
Monitor project progress with Gantt charts and KPI dashboards.

Melbourne	Thu 28 May	08:00 am
New York	Wed 27 May	18:00 pm
Los Angeles	Wed 27 May	15:00 pm

Questions & Answers

We use Volere Req methodology. We include Context Diagram in the day of a BA. Is it possible to create context diagrams in EA?

Enterprise Architect can be customized to tailor for the additional properties for requirements that are used in the Volere method. Using Enterprise Architect's tag values allows users to capture these information. For example, creating Tagged Values for customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction ratings. For details on how to create tagged values, visit:

Gallery of Diagrams
BABOK® Guide v3 Tutorial: Creating Your Own Diagrams

Do you see BAs going beyond BPMN, UML and contribute also in Archimate regarding strategy layer, motivation layer?

Absolutely yes. It is inevitable that Business Analysts look beyond documenting requirements as usecase scenarios, BPMN etc. In my opinion, a holistic approach to analyzing business problems can be achieved only when the whole ecosystem of the organization is considered for long-term solution recommendations. Senior level Business Analysts are more strategically involved in business planning and execution that includes Business Analysis work in strategy and business motivation layer.

Is the EA repository hosted on the cloud server or on the company's server and is a stand alone version of EA still available?

Enterprise Architect can be deployed as a stand-alone repository, as well as repository hosted on a cloud or a server at a centralized location. For standalone deployment download and install Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems website. Below is the link for downloading trial version.

Download Enterprise Architect Trial

I understand that Enterprise Architect has Sharepoint Integration. Is the calendar integrated into MS Outlook?

No, the Calendar in Enterprise Architect is not integrated with MS outlook. Enterprise Architect integrates with Sharepoint via Pro Cloud Server. For more information on Enterprise Architect integrations with Third Party tools, visit: Integration Plug-ins.

Where can I find more information on Enterprise Architect's support for Business Analysis?

Enterprise Architect supports enterprise-wide Business Analysis with built-in capabilities for requirements management, Usecase analysis, Business rules analysis, business process analysis and much more.

Please visit the below links for more information:
Tutorials
Tools & Techniques for BABOK® Guide v3
Using Enterprise Architect and the BABOK® Guide v3 to achieve better business outcomes
Requirements Engineering (pdf)
Requirements Management with Enterprise Architect (pdf)

Access the Enterprise Architect's BABOK Version3 toolkit here:
http://babok.sparxpublic.com/index.php
Access code: babok.model

Enterprise Architect in a typical day of a Business Analyst

28 May 2020

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