The field Business Informatics is of interest to professionals with a job profile that matches or is close to

• Business Analysts (also Requirements Engineers) in initiatives with a substantial share of IT service creation, enhancement or modification. The deliverable is requirements in the widest interpretation of the term and using the forms of text, models, UI-mocks, etc. whatever is best suited in the given context.
• Project Managers (also Program Managers) in the abovementioned initiatives. The deliverables are proposals for contracts or changes, plans, (status) reports and the closure of initiatives. They align and prioritise with the organisation's strategy (if there is any). They can be business-side or IT-side.

The key task of both roles is to link business and IT, thus acting as the BRIDGE. They work coordinated with the Software Engineers/ICT Architects (including DB and/or AI specialists), UX specialists and IT operations.

The Business Informatics special interest group is the platform to share knowledge on business analysis, project and program management. We link practitioners, researchers and educators. At our events we exchange new ideas, report how methods worked in practice, present best practices, research findings and refresh your competences with the latest tertiary level curricula updates.

The group Business Informatics covers the topics of requirements engineering, systems modelling and documentation, agile and waterfall development approaches, project planning and control, effort estimation, strategic alignment and prioritisation. We also strive to seamlessly integrate the related fields of systems and software architecture, user experience design, software and data engineering, test engineering, IT operations, business operations, safety, security and quality management.

We publish and regularily update:

• The standard to model and document systems with eight sections: 1 overview, 2 kpi, 3 business, 4 architecture, 5 user manual, 6 developer manual, 7 test manual, 8 it operations manual.
• The standard for management deliverables with four sections: 1 contract/change, 2 plan, 3 report, 4 acceptance/closure
• Empirical data on complexity, efforts and duration for respective estimation