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Assignment  – Case Study

Overview

For this assignment, you will identify and manage the requirements to meet a business need, design possible solutions and communicate your recommendations through a written report and oral presentation.

Learning Outcomes Assessed

The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment:

K2: Discuss a variety of contemporary tools and techniques used for business analysis and when these are appropriate to use

K3: Identify and explain the core concepts of business analysis

S1: Analyse, document and manage business requirements

S2: Investigate and compare various business analysis methods, tools and techniques

S3: Identify and apply appropriate means of communication for disseminating information between stakeholders

S4: Determine a variety of possible solutions and make recommendations to address business needs

A1: Develop, manage, and effectively communicate business requirements

A2: Analyse and critique the implementation of a business solution

A3: Prepare and justify a case for business change

Assessment Details

You are required to identify an opportunity for a change involving Information Technology in an organization, using current Australian news media to identify the opportunity. This could be inspired by identifying an area for potential growth through observation of a current issue being experienced, or from perceiving an opportunity to improve an organisation’s current systems.

Current Australian news media includes reputable news sources published in English in Australia, with any article published since 1st April 2019 considered current. You may check with your lecturer or tutor to confirm the suitability of the news media if you are uncertain.

Once you have identified an opportunity, you are assigned the role of Business Analyst to work on this project. Important Note: You must not contact the actual organisation. You may conduct research using online and library resources and ask your tutor or other students / friends to provide different perspectives – such assistance must be fully acknowledged in your assignment.

Your role entails:

Strategy Analysis:

• Gain an understanding of the current aims and strategy of the organization and the business objectives of the change, and describing these in your report.

Elicitation and Collaboration:

• Identifying the relevant stakeholders for this change and creating a RASCI stakeholder prioritization matrix.

• Developing a list of requirements for the change, considering the perspectives of the relevant stakeholders.

Requirements Lifecycle Management

• Organising and managing the requirements using a suitable tool e.g. requirements analysis template.

• Constructing a requirements traceability matrix that links the requirements to each of the proposed designs.

Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

• Requirements specified and modelled using appropriate techniques e.g. user stories or use cases, use case diagrams, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, process modelling, etc.

• Developing measurement and evaluation criteria to enable the success of the change to be determined.

• Developing two different, high level designs that address the identified requirements and that would be valid solutions to the opportunity. Note that these should also be compatible with the organisation’s overall strategy. Note also that you are not expected to provide details of the technical implementation of these designs.

• Recommending one of the designs as the optimal approach for the organisation to consider, with justifications for this recommendation.

As the business analyst, you are also required to document your work in a report in a format suitable for review by the organisation’s management. Your report must:

• Include an Executive Summary of the report contents, providing a brief overview of the analysis and also the recommended design solution.

• Document the findings of your analysis in detail, so that the process you have undertaken is clearly explained and identifiable. This should enable another person to follow the work you have completed and understand the outcomes you have identified. Some of the information may be difficult to represent professionally in a report. You may use screenshots where appropriate to show the relevant information, and submit the complete files separately from the report.

• Be presented in a professional manner suitable for issuing to an executive team at the organisation.

In addition to your report, you are required to present your work in an oral presentation, as though you are presenting to a group of stakeholders from the organisation who will be deciding whether to proceed with the change and if so, with which design, based on your presentation.

It is therefore necessary that you pay attention to your presentation aids, your personal appearance and the quality of your spoken presentation, as you need to make a good impression and convince the stakeholders of the merits of your work.

This presentation must be of no more than 5 minutes duration. You may assume that the attendees have access to your written report so you do not need to provide details of all your work, but you do need to provide enough information to enable people who haven’t read the report to follow your reasoning. The presentation should therefore:

• identify the opportunity and how this aligns with the business objectives.

• outline the overall requirements of a solution to this opportunity. You may find your models from the written report particularly useful to represent this information in a readable format.

• discuss the measurement and evaluation criteria for the change.

• give details of the two design options proposed.

• recommend one of the designs, with justifications as to why this is the optimal solution.