The Challenge:

The analysis process in many organizations is time consuming, resource intensive and fraught with disconnects and misconceptions - which typically propagate through subsequent phases of a project.

Business end users often have differing and even conflicting views of the same business space.

Inteq's MoDA* Framework™
- Better, Faster, More Cost Effective Analysis

* Model Driven Analysis

The Solution:
There's a better, faster, more cost effective approach to business and systems analysis - Inteq's model driven analysis approach and framework.

Inteq's model driven analysis approach and framework enables rapid and accurate analysis of complex business concepts.

The focus is on developing and refining business end user friendly visual models (process maps, activity diagrams, data models, etc.) as the foundation for business process and business system analysis.

Project participants (business end users, managers, analysts, developers and other stakeholders) are able to analyze and communicate concepts and requirements from a clear, common consistent frame of reference.

Analysts are under pressure to "get" the requirements quickly - often resulting in a set of vague and ambiguous requirements that are subject to a wide range of interpretation.

Developers are under pressure to "get" the requirements coded and into production quickly - often interpreting vague and ambiguous requirements to minimize developed time.

The result is costly systems that often do not adequately support basic business end user requirements and require substantial and costly on going maintenance.

Inteq's MoDA Framework™ - 6 Key Benefits

Intuitive Analysis - Inteq's model driven approach enables project participants to intuitively grasp how business concepts and related rules and requirements are connected, grouped and organized. Complex business concepts and subtle relationships are quickly identified and thoroughly analyzed. The visual models reinforce understanding and enable participants to quickly and effectively absorb new information.

Consistent Understanding - Business end users typically speak in vague business ramblings which are typically captured and translated into some form of text based requirements document by business and systems analysts. Text based narrative requirements based on business end user ramblings result in significant disconnects and misconceptions among project participants. Visual models clearly depict what is known and enables quick identification of gaps, disconnects and misconceptions, objectively challenged and quickly resolved. Visual models enable a seamless handoff of business rules and requirements from users to analysts to developers.

Integrated Analysis - There is strong cohesion among the models. As new business concepts and rules or changes in concepts and rules are comprehend or adjusted in one model the impact and corresponding changes can be quickly evaluated and comprehend in the related models. Visual models are quickly updated, revised and improved in an iterative manner. Each iteration builds on the prior body of knowledge. Project participants are able to internalize new information quickly and see how rules and requirements fit together. This 360 degree analysis approach ensures thorough and rigorous analysis of the business space from multiple perspectives.

Business Ownership - Model driven analysis is participant driven and leads to the participants taking ownership of their ideas. Business end users "get" the analysis process quickly and intuitively. The model driven approach eliminates the techno-speak gap that leaves the business end users with a sense of disconnection from the process and the resulting deliverables. The model driven approach empowers and typically inspires business end users. Business ownership of the requirements improves the quality of the requirements process, end-user acceptance of the application and the business change management issues associated with implementation.

Knowledge Management - Visual models along with their support details comprise a robust and powerful repository of business knowledge. Project participants, even after long periods of not working directly with the models, can get back-up to speed quickly. The business knowledge contained in the models persist long after the models are initially created and validated. The models serve as a powerful training tool to bring new business end users up to speed quickly and enable rapid start-up of future process improvement and business systems analysis projects.

Pattern Recognition - One of the most powerful concepts of Inteq's model driven analysis approach is pattern recognition. In utilizing our approach over many years Inteq has identified recurring patterns of process and data oriented business rules that appear frequently across numerous projects across many industries. Inteq has distilled and refined these patterns into a coherent set of standards that is integrated into our model driven analysis framework. Pattern based analysis exponentially increase the speed and quality of the analysis process. Standard patterns are quickly recognized and rapidly refined in connection with your specific business rules and requirements. This pattern approach provides a stable foundation to quickly identify and refine additional business rules and requirements.

Inteq's model driven approach is infused across our tools, techniques and methods and training curricula. Our business consultants and training professionals are highly proficient in applying our model driven analysis approach in delivering training programs performing consulting assignments.