Visualization Tool

Challenge

I am a member of a resource pool of the IT Area. We are business analysts who are  in charge of knowing the needs of the business areas and of identifying the  necessary systems requirements to cover those needs.

When you work with people outside the IT area, it becomes necessary to translate  the concepts of each area, either inside or outside it, to achieve a mutual  understanding of the problem and the proposed solution.

Along the way, the description of how we are going to arrive at the solution or the  planned result is basic to try not to omit important details that can become different  kinds of risks.

Selection

The team, through experience, has found that one way to reduce this problem is  through diagramming (visualization). This allows a simple and interactive way to  understand what the business requires and discover all involved.

Application

It has been developed as part of our process of raising requirements a stage of  generation of diagrams, which shows what today happens during the process or  problem described (as-is).

And then one is returned showing the points in which to attack to give solution to the  requirement (to-be).

Insight & Approach

A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when we are trying to find  relationships and understand amounts of data, which could include thousands or  even millions of variables.

With visualization tools, businesses are able to see large amounts of data in clear,  cohesive ways – and draw conclusions from that information.

There are many techniques for visualizations to reduce cognitive burden of a data  analysis task. This process has to be iterative to better reach different forums.

Using charts, graphs or other visually impactful representations of data is important  because it’s engaging and gets the message across quickly.

