Helen Winter

Helen Winter is an enterprise transformation leader, author, and operating model strategist with deep experience in designing and delivering complex organisational change. She has led transformation programmes across multiple organisations and sectors, focusing on the operating model mechanisms that link strategy to execution — including commercial model redesign, governance frameworks, squad operating models, PMO modernisation, financial controls, tooling and data alignment, and AI-enabled delivery. Her work centres on helping organisations build operating models that deliver predictable, efficient, and value-driven outcomes. Her expertise spans transformation programme design, enterprise agility, cross-functional governance, behavioural and cultural change, and the practical integration of tools and processes to improve business performance. Helen is also a global business author with Kogan Page. Her first book, The Business Analysis Handbook, was a finalist for two major industry awards: the PMI award for contribution to project management literature and the Business Book Awards’ Specialist Book category. She is an active member of the APM Programme Management Specific Interest Group, contributing to thought leadership, guidance, and the development of good practice for programme delivery. A frequent speaker at project, programme, and transformation forums, Helen shares her insights through her long-running blog BusinessBullet.co.uk, visited by over 5,000 readers a month. Her current writing focuses on modern operating models, transformation leadership, organisational capability, and the real-world dynamics that determine whether change succeeds or fails.

Author Archives: Helen Winter

Managing change to requirements

By | 26/02/2017

The risk of changes to requirements can be minimized by having a robust requirements gathering process. For various reasons requirements could still change and it is important to have a process in place to manage these changes when they happen.  Changes need to be prioritised, documented, communicated and implemented if approved. The main steps and questions to answer… Read More »

A quick guide to the main roles in Business analysis

By | 20/02/2017

There are different roles within business analysis.  Below lists some of the different job titles encountered and the differences in job description and skills required.  Because of this the roles may sit in different teams.   Some companies may separate out these roles whilst others may be more blended. Business Architect (other job titles may include Lead Business Analyst)… Read More »

Implementing an agile approach – steps towards agility

By | 29/01/2017

The term agile has become a popular term and approach for delivering solutions.  It is an alternative to the traditional waterfall approach.  Its key focus has been to deliver faster, greater collaboration between stakeholders and more adaptable at incorporating changes.  It does this by breaking the work down, prioritising items of highest value and getting output in front… Read More »

Drilling down solution requirements into more detail

By | 21/01/2017

The previous article How to elicit high level requirements by identifying use cases explained how to identify the scope of the solution and how to define use cases.  This article explains what questions to ask and how to document solution requirements in more detail using UML (Unified Modelling Language). A great benefit of this technique is that it… Read More »

How to elicit high level requirements by identifying use cases

By | 07/01/2017

This article is to provide you with techniques for eliciting requirements by providing step by step instructions to produce a use case model for an IT system.  A company intranet will be used throughout to provide examples. Use cases were first used by Ivar Jacobson to describe an amount of work to be done.  Use cases break down… Read More »

5 Lessons learnt from Agile and how to apply whether using agile or another methodology

By | 11/12/2016

This article sets out some of the attributes that make the agile methodology successful but also explains what lessons can be learnt and applied  regardless of the methodology.  When providing Agile examples, the approach called SCRUM will be used as it is one of the most popular agile approaches. Refer to the article How to identify the most… Read More »

The hierarchy of requirements and how it impacts requirements gathering?

By | 27/11/2016

There are different levels of requirements gathering which need to be conducted at different periods of time during the lifecycle of a project.  This article sets out a brief description of each of the type of requirements, why, how this relates to traceability and some examples. Further articles on gathering goals / objectives – How to gather benefits… Read More »