Business Solutions Lifecycle (BSLC)
The Business Solutions Lifecycle helps enterprise organizations manage and improve business processes, enterprise systems architecture, and infrastructure delivery throughout the business, product, and system requirements lifecycles. Whether utilizing agile, iterative, or waterfall approaches, the Business Solutions Lifecycle aligns software delivery best practices, customer and market successes, and innovative technology needed to address today’s complex enterprise vision, strategies, requirements, quality, and innovation. The focus of Business Solutions Lifecycle management processes:
· Software Delivery Management
· Requirements Definition & Management
· Lifecycle Quality Management
· Continuous Process Improvement
· Change Management
Focusing on these critical processes significantly improves visibility, traceability, and manageability. Key performance indicator (KPI)-based metrics monitoring and control leads directly to increased quality, reliability, and predictability with minimized risk over the entire enterprise solutions delivery process.
A working model using mission-driven measures in a team approach is worth a thousand opinions
- Chuck Morrison, MBA, PMP, CPIM
Business Process and Systems Delivery Management
Addressing the complex management needs of enterprise portfolio and organization alignment and compliance, business process and information technology solutions delivery the following management framework of organizations can:
· Drive clarity and alignment between business process and enterprise IT solution delivery teams and business stakeholders
· Deliver key business process and enterprise solution initiatives on-time and within budget with high predictably and quality
· Minimize risk through a combination of rich analytics and automated, real-time monitoring
· Support iterative, waterfall, and agile project management
· Effectively manage, measure, and improve organizational performance.
Requirements Definition & Management
Deliver software right the first time, every time by ensuring business and enterprise IT alignment throughout the BSLC. Using Business Process and Systems Delivery Management BPSDM, business analysts and stakeholders collaborate to collect, document, validate, and manage business process and enterprise IT requirements. Effective BPSDM solutions facilitate enterprise organizations savings up to 40% of total project schedule and budget with the specified portfolio, program, and projects scope.
Lifecycle Quality Management
Revolutionize your approach to business process and systems quality by improving it across all phases of the business and enterprise system solutions delivery lifecycle. The BSLC approach to Lifecycle Quality Management supports incremental, continuous, or systemic improvements to the enterprise QA process, thus ensuring quality is addressed by and addresses requirements, measured and improved during development, deployment, and release. User acceptance is maximized with use case-based test cases coupled with appropriate test automation and managed within an open, scalable framework.
Change Management
Change Management help business process and enterprise IT solution teams maintain fluidity and responsiveness to constantly changing business needs. Embracing and dealing with change promptly increases your organization’s business agility; a significant advantage in today’s fast-changing business world. With BSLC, geographically distributed and centralized business and enterprise IT teams are empowered to orchestrate and control change throughout the Business Process Lifecycle further significantly enabling communication and organization alignment by leveraging best practices when managing project scope, milestones, tasks, and associated assets and artifacts.
Continuous Process Improvement (CIP)
Continuous Improvement Process is a management process in which process enhancement or correction delivery efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility is continuously evaluated and improved. CPI is considered a management systems meta process (e.g., Business Process Management, Quality Management, Project Management). Continuous Process Improvement is a strategic approach for developing a culture of continuous improvement in the areas of reliability, process cycle times, reduced resource consumption and cost, quality, productivity, and performance. Deployed effectively, CIP increases quality, productivity, and performance, while reducing waste, cycle time, and throughput.
Workflow Modeling Lifecycle
The illustration below shows the funding decision-points or milestones for each phase of a workflow development project. Within each milestone or project phase, due diligence is provided for the dynamic events and processes, business logic, data access and retention, usability, and technical infrastructure interface requirements. The principal focus throughout is optimal execution of the enterprise vision in an iterative, incremental, component approach thus ensuring due consideration for resources, time, cost, and risk of each phase. Anticipation provides scanning for accommodation of potential scalability and technical robustness for future expansion of business operations to meet customer demand. Partnering is also considered to ensure competitive advantage derived from enterprise core competencies. Simplification is considered to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability of business systems including legacy.
Business Solution Lifecycle
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