Do you need Business Architects when creating a new product? Isn't that a bit redundant when you have highly-paid Product Managers already? Or is there an overlap between the two that will create a better product for the end users, but also for the organization because they can better support it and it is aligned with the underlying process.

Our guest this week is Mike DeCamp, who has over 15 years of professional experience in business analysis, project management, and process improvement. He is a Senior Product Manager at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), one of the world's leading cancer research and treatment centers.

Mike has earned multiple certifications in Business Benefits Realization, Change Management, Business & Enterprise Architecture, and Financial Literacy, and is a proficient thought leader in areas of strategy development and cross functional leadership.

In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:

• Mike's background
• Business Architecture - how the BA Guild defines it and how it relates to other frameworks and concepts
• Business architecture artifacts as the value contribution to make the connection to the strategy/business model
• How Mike applied BA to a new product in his day job at MSKCC
• How BA provides the context when defining new projects or programs (for products, but also otherwise)
• How to keep structures up-to-date when everything is a project

To reach out to Mike via LinkedIn have a look here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-decamp-cba%C2%AE-02bb6b2/

Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.