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RUP to Include Enterprise Planning Component
October 24, 2005 |
They’re pretty busy over at IBM these days. Like the previous open sourcing of RUP, there’s very little available on the site to tell you what this actually means in practice.
It’s useful in that it confirms that the BA BoK really needs a strong Enterprise Analysis component–by the time we’re ready to roll out the certification process I think it’ll be the hot new thing. It is, however, going to introduce some challenges.
The current draft of the Enterprise Analysis KA includes two major areas of interest; the definition of the problem model/business domain, and project goal setting. My original draft of the KA focused on the first of those, and the person currently running the subcommittee is focusing on the second. I originally chose to devote relatively little space to goal setting/portfolio management because, a year ago, it wasn’t a hot area and very few BAs were involved in doing it. Now, one of those two things looks like it won’t be true in the future, so some redirection is a good idea.
The question, really, is whether or not the two concepts should be decoupled. The main connection between them is that they’re both “pre-project” activities that focus on describing the environment in which a solution should be implemented. The argument for separating them is that the skills required for defining the problem model or business domain are pretty much the same skills that are used in Requirements Analysis. In fact, they’re a subset of those skills–if you can’t even in principle articulate what currently exists you certainly can’t describe an alternative to it. That’s not true of portfolio management and strategic planning, which are fundamentally different abilities.
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