The Requirements Document provides a solid foundation for the end product, and provides the first view of what the intended product must do and clear descriptions of how the automated system should perform. The Requirements Document also provides a basis for design, and serves as a foundation for testing […]

Promising to do for business process management what the iPhone did for portable devices, Vitria this week announced M30, a BPM suite aimed at blending process management and event processing through a slick, Web 2.0-style interface. The result is described as a unified environment in which untrained business users can intuitively model, manage, monitor and optimize processes without help from IT.

TIBCO iProcess Suite Outperforms BEA Systems, Pegasystems, Axway and W4 Based on ISO 9001:2000-Certified AssessmentLondon, March 31, 2008 – TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that the independent analyst group - Yphise - ranked TIBCO iProcess™ Suite as the industry’s “Best Business Process Management (BPM)” solution. According to the report, TIBCO’s BPM suite […]

You just started at company X, besides the nice website and the great interviewing experience what do you know about this new company your about to “work on”? A BA must be prepared to do extreme DNA engineering- The corporate DNA! Your company’s DNA will best […]

Fact gathering is an integral part of understanding reality and preparing a good process map. Yet, it is often dismissed or given cursory attention as superficial process maps are created by an individual or group of people some distance away from the work…and thereby some distance away from reality. If you want your process maps to reflect reality, you must go to the work and see it happen.

This post is for Business Analyst, Jack of all trades, or IT pros working at SMB/SME companies preparing to buy an ERP solution.