Departmental Plans (DP) are expenditure plans for each appropriated department and agency (excluding Crown corporations). They describe departmental priorities, strategic outcomes, programs, expected results and associated resource requirements, covering a three-year period beginning with the year indicated in the title of the report. Projects being undertaken by an organization should… Read more »
Download: .eap, .XMI (1.1), .XMI (2.1) A few years ago I created a standard package structure to use for projects, this let me do a few things: More quickly ramp up new projects Make it easier to reuse projects (copy / edit) Make it easier for other people to find… Read more »
A few years ago I posted how I’ve been organizing projects in Sparx EA. Since then I’ve made some refinements that I thought I’d share. The number of main nodes have been reduced to 4: 01 – Sandboxes 02 – Common Area Welcome Best Practices and Guidelines Architecture Catalogue Project… Read more »
A few years ago I started organizing the requirements in my projects in a very specific way and that approach has greatly simplified my discussions with project stakeholders. My definitions roughly align with IIBA’s definitions in their Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), but are more constrained. Under BABOK 3.0… Read more »
A RACI table I created earlier this year as part of the Business Analysis team’s Service Level Agreement. The purpose of the RACI and the SLA is to ensure that the other project team members know what the BA team will deliver for them and why, and what their responsibilities… Read more »
Recently I started a new job and have had more time to look at how to create architecture catalogues of elements and diagrams for reuse across projects, and realized that a lot of what I’m doing could also be reused by other Government of Canada and related organizations. I’m going… Read more »
I was asked a few years ago by a project manager to outline the process I follow to gather and communicate requirements for projects. After some thought I came up with an initial version of the diagram below, and over the years have refined it as new techniques such as… Read more »
Updated (2019/03/27): I’ve made some changes, and posted a new blog entry About a year ago I posted about how I started using Sparx EA, and stated that because of the tools flexibility it can be challenging to determine how to organize your work. So I thought I’d share how… Read more »
Like most Business Analysts, I’m typically not the audience for the different artifacts I create, so I don’t get to decide when what I’m working on is done, or “good enough” for use. To mange the approval of the artifacts that I create, I’ve found that I use 8 main… Read more »
In late 2009 (just before version 8 was released), I began learning how to use Sparx EA. A different branch in the organization I work for had purchased a few licenses to evaluate using Sparx EA as a Data Modeling tool, they decided to go with a different product, but… Read more »