by Francois Coetzee

Creating business models that are easy to understand are invaluable tools for understanding the inner workings of the organization, its functions, its role players and the business entities it uses, creates and consumes. It is a critical foundation for the system models that describe the supporting software architecture and allows for easy trace-ability and impact assessments of business to system and system to business. Using the simple approach described in this article will allow the business modeller to rapidly create accurate business models.

Choosing an analyst is so much more than just selecting the guy with the most experience in a particular technology or domain. The truth of it is you need to find someone that is fairly agnostic of the applications and technologies within your environment and find someone that first comes with the foundation skills that will make them a great analyst. The second thing you want to ensure is that the person comes with the personality to make them a great fit within your environment, and finally you want to find a person who fits the career level to meet the performance you are expecting for the assigned role. The last thing you look at is the specific technologies they have experience with (unless there is some very unique challenge coupled with an elongated learning curve).