Agree/Disagree? Deep Subject Matter Expertise Irrelevant

By Ronald G. Ross

Let's put you on the hot spot. You are forced to agree or disagree with the following statement and defend your answer.

"Deep subject matter expertise is irrelevant for a business analyst, especially in agile business analysis."

What would you say? Here's how Ron Ross answers: "I disagree." Find out why in this month's column and see if you concur.

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How do you play the Game of Rules?

By Drs. Silvie Spreeuwenberg

Game playing is a perfect tool to practice strategies and experience the result of rules on behavior. We play games with our children, in education, and for fun. Every game has its rules. In this month's issue of the 'Rule Observatory', Silvie Spreeuwenberg shares her tips on playing the Game of Rules — tips that also apply to managing business rules in your organization.

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Measuring Performance (Part 2)

By Roger T. Burlton

Having covered a variety of topics relating to business architecture, Roger Burlton now turns his attention to the question of how we can measure what we have defined. In Part 1, he provided a list of key performance indicators and discussed how to apply them when measuring performance. In Part 2, he elaborates on the structure of measurement and what you should consider to achieve an accurate and useful measure of your processes.

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AI to Manage Agility

By Jim Sinur

If you watched last year's Superbowl, you saw an example of agility in action with the swarming, lighted drones creating backgrounds in the sky behind Lady Gaga. Imagine if organizations would paint a customer experience dynamically this way — or respond to a competitor dynamically or intercept a market trend? Jim Sinur outlines how it's going to take AI to do this — not a bunch of hand-/human-controlled responses or computer programming alone.

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