For the business analyst
From requirements to real outcomes. Capture context. Prove impact.
Requirements, scope statements, acceptance criteria, traces and impacts as records, so a change to the objective finds every requirement, system and test it touches.
In one sentence
AlignX keeps the business analyst's requirements traced from the business need through design, delivery and testing to the outcome they were meant to produce.
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The challenge
The questions management and the project will ask you.
- What outcome does the business need, and how will we know it worked?
- What is explicitly out of scope, and who agreed that?
- Which requirements are genuinely essential?
- Can we trace what was requested through to what was delivered and tested?
- What does this change actually touch?
If any of these takes a week to answer, the rest of this page is for you.
The solution
What the analyst owns.
Scope statements
In scope, out of scope, assumptions and constraints, held as records.
Not a paragraph in a document. Each statement is a row that can be traced, approved and changed.
Acceptance criteria
Given, when, then, on the requirement.
Eight acceptance criteria as structured clauses, so the test that proves each one is a record, not a conversation.
Traceability
Parent above, children below, compliance linkage beside.
Federated identity for the institution above; research tools and session end below. Change the parent and the children know.
Requirement register
Every requirement with its state, level, MoSCoW and type.
Must, should, could, won't. Feature, epic or user story. Approved, in review or draft. One grid, one board, one timeline.
Impact by layer
What a change touches, by layer, before the decision.
Business contexts, capabilities, organisations, applications. Named on the change record, so the requirement's impact is known before it is approved.
Day to day
What changes.
The AlignX technology
Nothing new to govern.
Runs inside Microsoft 365In your tenant, on your Dataverse. Nothing leaves it.
Entra ID governs who sees whatThe roles you already run decide access. No second directory.
Australian data residencyYour Dataverse environment sits in an Australian region. Purview and retention policies apply as they do everywhere else.
Questions
What business analysts ask us.
What BA and requirements tools does AlignX replace, and what stays?
AlignX replaces your requirements management tool (Jama, Blueprint, DOORS Next), your process modeller (standalone Visio, ARIS), and consolidates your BA content out of scattered Confluence pages. It integrates with Jira for delivery, Confluence for supporting docs, and your EA and portfolio models so requirements sit in the enterprise context.
If we use Jira and Confluence today, what changes?
Delivery teams keep working in Jira. Confluence keeps hosting supporting content if you want. AlignX becomes the connected home for structured BA artefacts: requirements, process models, capability maps and traceability. You gain the traceability BABOK asks for without losing the tools your teams already use.
How does AlignX handle traceability from strategy through to requirements, design and testing?
Every requirement traces up to the capability and objective it serves, and down to the design, build and test artefacts that satisfy it. Change impact analysis is instant: if an objective shifts, you see every requirement affected. This is the traceability BABOK asks for, without the manual matrix.
Can I capture BABOK-aligned artefacts in AlignX?
Yes. AlignX includes templates for the BABOK knowledge areas: stakeholder register, business case, current-state and future-state models, requirements catalogue, gap analysis, use cases and acceptance criteria. You can customise or replace any of them.
Can AlignX map current state, future state and gap analysis in one place?
Yes. Current-state and future-state process models, capability models and data models live in the same workspace, with gap analysis generated by comparison. Reviewers see the delta highlighted, not a side-by-side you have to interpret.
How does AlignX support requirements review, sign-off and change control?
Every artefact has configurable review and approval workflows. Sign-off is captured with evidence and audit trail. Change requests link to affected requirements automatically, so your CR log is a byproduct of the work, not a separate spreadsheet.
What does the BA workflow look like end to end in AlignX?
Elicitation (stakeholders, interviews, workshops) into the enterprise model, requirements catalogued with priority and acceptance criteria, current-state and future-state modelled, gap analysis generated, requirements traced to Jira delivery items, sign-off captured, benefits linked. One platform, one BA lifecycle.
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