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Cutting through the requirements cake
Imagine you want to buy a carrot cake. There are several carrot cakes for sale, so it’s probably worth gathering your requirements to help you pick the right cake: ID Requirement cake1 Cake must be...
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Business Rule Management – helping to close the business/IT divide
Introducing flexibility A Business Rule Management System (BRMS) is a technology that allows business rules to be expressed in an externalised readable way, so that the business can own and manage...
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Takes Two to Tango
I heard the Work and Pensions Secretary on the receiving end of a proper Radio 4 grilling recently, the subject of the interviewer’s ire being the poor quality of the implementation of the Government’s...
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7 Tips for Effective Business Processes with BPMN
The Object Management Group’s BPMN standard specifies a very effective notation for diagramming business processes. In fact, this notation is in effect a language, like English or French. It has...
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We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us
A bad workman blames his tools According to the free dictionary, the above is “something that you say when someone blames the objects they are using for their own mistakes.” I’ve been thinking recently...
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Beginning BPMN? Get Aboard the Iteration Train
This morning as the train drew in to my station, the platform announcer gave a very precise and succinct instruction: “Please use each and every door to board the train.” I initially worried that I...
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Has the definition of a ‘Business Analyst’ become overloaded?
To me, the main purpose of business analysis is to define requirements. But I also think there are certain sub-roles of business analysis – and 99% of the time, every Business Analyst (BA) can be...
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Where do requirements go when the project is over?
If they’re created just for the project then they probably take the form of a list of things the project has to do. E.g., change A to B, remove C, make D go 10% faster, G now happens before F, add ‘X’...
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Getting the best from the ODS – Part One
The Siren Song These large-scale repositories of data span a number of business lines or functions, and slurp up data from many sources with the promise that it can be mined, analysed and monitored...
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Getting the best from the ODS – Part two
Simplify but don’t oversimplify First and foremost, we need to avoid the temptation to think of the data lake as a single homogenous unstructured mass of storage. In practice, the data lake is subject...
View ArticleGetting the best from the ODS – Part Three
Pattern: Downstream Structuring In classical data warehouses, the ETL process was responsible for both the physical import of data, and for structuring and standardizing it into a usable state. As ODS...
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Cutting through the requirements cake
Imagine you want to buy a carrot cake. There are several carrot cakes for sale, so it’s probably worth gathering your requirements to help you pick the right cake: ID Requirement cake1 Cake must be...
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Immediate Payments and Humpty Dumpty
One egg for all? The European Central Bank (ECB) and the ERPB (Euro Retail Payments Board) see instant payments as the next deliverable after SEPA migration, and have a vision for a pan-European euro...
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Top tips for getting the best out of your Design Authority
Tip 1: Authority levels within your Design Authority Firstly, does your DA actually have the authority to function correctly? Are the members actually those empowered to make decisions or do they only...
View ArticlePSD2 – The countdown is on, but is the banking world prepared?
Despite the lack of clarity around the details of the requirements, the banks are generally embracing this change and viewing this evolution as an opportunity. This view is particularly welcome as...
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API Banking
API Banking is a distinctive area within the digital space, energetically debated by business people, IT manager and developers alike. APIs as business network enablers are not new. Banks have built...
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Watch out EBA, SWIFT and VISA – here comes Masterlink!
The news of the planned acquisition broke a few days after the Payment Systems Regulator’s recommendation that banks divest their ownership of the company. I’m sure the timing is not accidental, but...
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