🧠 Business Analyst Agent Specification¶

🎯 Purpose¶

The Business Analyst Agent serves as the primary bridge between raw business vision
and the structured, validated business requirements needed to begin autonomous product planning inside the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory.

✅ It refines, clarifies, structures, and models
✅ It transforms strategic intent into actionable business knowledge

The BA Agent's outputs ensure that Product Manager Agents, Product Owner Agents, and Engineering Tracks
work from clear, traceable, and business-aligned foundations —
eliminating ambiguity, scope creep, and inconsistent understanding.

🛠️ Core Mission Statement¶

You are the agent responsible for transforming a high-level business vision into fully structured, validated,
business-oriented artifacts — including Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Business Rule Catalogs,
Process Models, and Gap Analyses — ready for Product Planning and Technical Decomposition.

🏛️ Position in the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory Lifecycle¶

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    VisionArchitectAgent -->|VisionDocumentCreated| BusinessAnalystAgent
    BusinessAnalystAgent -->|BusinessRequirementsReady| ProductManagerAgent
    ProductManagerAgent -->|ProductPlanCreated| ProductOwnerAgent
    ProductOwnerAgent -->|BacklogReady| EventBus
    EventBus --> UXDesignerAgent
    EventBus --> EnterpriseArchitectAgent
    EventBus --> DeveloperAgents

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✅ The BA Agent operates immediately after Vision Architect Agent,
✅ Prepares the groundwork for all downstream Engineering Agents.

📚 Primary Goals¶

Goal	Description
Requirement Refinement	Analyze and structure functional and non-functional requirements from vision and stakeholder context.
Business Process Modeling	Model domain workflows, operational processes, and user journey diagrams.
Business Rule Extraction	Formalize critical business rules and domain constraints (e.g., compliance, regulatory, SLA rules).
Gap Analysis	Identify gaps between current state (as-is) and desired state (to-be) where necessary.
Persona and Role Clarification	Extend and enrich initial persona definitions into detailed role behaviors, needs, and goals.
Business Alignment Verification	Ensure requirements are aligned with strategic business goals extracted from the Vision Document.
Preparation for Product Planning	Produce clear, traceable artifacts ready for Product Manager Agent consumption.

🧠 Focus Areas¶

Focus	In Scope?
Business Domain Understanding	✅
Stakeholder Need Extraction	✅
Process Documentation (BPMN, Flows)	✅
Requirements Specification	✅
Business Rule Cataloging	✅
User Story Writing	❌ (done later by Product Owner Agent)
Engineering Constraints	❌ (handled later by Architecture/Technical Agents)

📜 Practical Examples of Outputs¶

Output	Example
Business Requirement	"Patients must be able to schedule appointments online without staff intervention."
Business Rule	"A Patient cannot book more than 3 appointments simultaneously."
Process Model	"Appointment Scheduling Flow: Patient ➔ Appointment Selection ➔ Confirmation ➔ Notification"
Gap Analysis Finding	"Current CRM system does not support appointment notification triggers — requires system upgrade."

📚 Core Deliverables Produced by the Business Analyst Agent¶

Business Requirements Document (BRD)
Business Rules Catalog
Business Process Models (BPMN, Flowcharts)
Gap Analysis Reports
Extended Persona and Role Profiles
Traceability Maps (Vision ➔ Requirement ➔ Process/Rule)
Event emissions (BusinessRequirementsReady, BusinessRulesReady, BusinessProcessModelReady)

✅ All delivered in cloud-native, modular, machine-consumable, human-readable formats.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Purpose Alignment
Domain-Driven Analysis	Structured domain modeling before technical planning.
Event-Driven Activation	BusinessRequirementsReady events trigger downstream planning flows.
Traceability-First	Every requirement, rule, and process model links back to Vision.
Modularity	Outputs are atomic, modular, reusable across multiple projects.
Observability	All steps traced, logged, and metered for full visibility.

📋 Responsibilities¶

The Business Analyst Agent holds a clear and well-scoped set of responsibilities:
✅ Clarify the business intent,
✅ Structure it formally,
✅ Document it consistently,
✅ Prepare it for the Product Planning Agents.

These responsibilities ensure that the ConnectSoft Factory moves from vision ambiguity to structured business understanding without gaps.

🛠️ Primary Responsibilities¶

Responsibility	Description
Requirement Extraction	Extract clear, functional, and non-functional business requirements from Vision Documents and stakeholder context.
Business Rule Modeling	Identify and formalize business rules, domain constraints, and compliance conditions.
Business Process Mapping	Model core operational processes, workflows, and business event sequences (e.g., BPMN-lite models).
Gap Analysis	Detect differences between current operational state ("As-Is") and desired state ("To-Be").
Persona and Role Clarification	Extend Vision-level personas with detailed roles, behaviors, goals, and needs relevant to business flows.
Requirement Structuring	Organize all extracted information into modular, traceable artifacts ready for Product Planning Agents.
Traceability Embedding	Link each requirement, rule, and process to strategic objectives and Vision metadata (trace ID, project ID).
Artifact Storage	Store produced artifacts into flexible, pluggable backends: Blob Storage, Git, SQL, Documentation Systems.
Event Emission	Emit structured events: `BusinessRequirementsReady`, `BusinessRulesReady`, `BusinessProcessModelReady`, `GapAnalysisReady`.

🏛️ Visual: Responsibility Breakdown¶

flowchart TD
    VisionDocumentIntake --> RequirementExtraction
    RequirementExtraction --> BusinessRuleModeling
    BusinessRuleModeling --> BusinessProcessMapping
    BusinessProcessMapping --> GapAnalysis
    GapAnalysis --> PersonaEnrichment
    PersonaEnrichment --> RequirementStructuring
    RequirementStructuring --> ArtifactStorage
    RequirementStructuring --> EventEmission

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✅ Full modular decomposition, traceable at every step.

📜 Examples of Concrete Outputs per Responsibility¶

Responsibility	Example Artifact
Requirement Extraction	"Patients can book appointments online via web portal."
Business Rule Modeling	"Only registered patients can cancel an appointment."
Business Process Mapping	BPMN-like diagram of Appointment Booking Flow.
Gap Analysis	"Existing CRM system lacks real-time notification triggers — enhancement required."
Persona Enrichment	"Admin Staff Persona — manages appointment approvals and cancellations."

📚 Core Deliverable to Responsibility Mapping¶

Deliverable	Responsibility
Business Requirements Document	Requirement Extraction, Requirement Structuring
Business Rules Catalog	Business Rule Modeling
Business Process Diagrams	Business Process Mapping
Gap Analysis Report	Gap Analysis
Extended Persona Profiles	Persona and Role Clarification
Traceability Matrix	Traceability Embedding

🧠 Autonomous Behaviors Supported¶

Behavior	Trigger
Semantic Enrichment of Requirements	If semantic memory finds similar business domains.
Business Process Modeling from Text	Automated generation of process diagrams based on requirement descriptions.
Gap Detection Suggestions	Auto-highlight inconsistencies or missing capabilities based on domain patterns.
Prioritized Event Emission	Emission of readiness events when minimum viable documentation is validated.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Responsibility Mapping
Domain-Driven Modeling	Business flows and requirements mapped to domain bounded contexts.
Event-Driven Activation	Each completed artifact triggers a readiness event.
Traceability-First	Requirements tied back to Vision, Strategic Objectives, Project Metadata.
Modular and Flexible Storage	Outputs stored in Blob, Git, SQL, or Documentation Systems (configurable).
Observability Embedded	Each step traced, logged, and metered.

📥 Inputs¶

The Business Analyst Agent requires a rich and structured set of inputs to function correctly:
✅ These inputs provide the raw materials needed to extract, structure, model, and validate business artifacts.

Every input ensures that outputs are aligned with the original vision,
traceable across the factory lifecycle,
and enriched with business domain context.

📋 Primary Inputs Consumed¶

Input Type	Description	Example
Vision Document	Structured vision generated by the Vision Architect Agent — includes problem statement, high-level features, strategic goals, personas.	Markdown/JSON artifact from storage.
VisionDocumentCreated Event	Event that signals a new Vision is available for refinement.	`event_type: VisionDocumentCreated`, `artifact_uri`, `trace_id`.
Strategic Objectives List	Explicit business goals extracted from the Vision (e.g., "Increase client retention by 20%").	Text or structured list inside the Vision Document.
Persona and Stakeholder Definitions	Early persona definitions and key stakeholder roles identified by the Vision Architect Agent.	"Patient", "Doctor", "Admin Staff" personas.
Initial Feature List	Features proposed by Vision Architect Agent (to map to business processes and requirements).	"Appointment Scheduling", "Billing Integration".
Stakeholder Constraints (Optional)	Initial known business, legal, regulatory, or technical constraints impacting requirements.	"Must comply with HIPAA in the US market."
Domain Knowledge Base (Optional)	Domain-specific patterns for industries like Healthcare, Fintech, EdTech, etc.	Healthcare appointment flow patterns.
Semantic Memory (Optional)	Previously generated Business Requirement Documents, Business Rules, and Process Models in similar projects.	Past Healthcare SaaS business models.
Industry Regulations/Policies (Optional)	Pre-ingested semantic knowledge on applicable laws (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).	Templates for compliance requirements.

🏗️ Visual: Input Sources Flow¶

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    VisionArchitectAgent -->|VisionDocumentCreated| EventBus
    EventBus --> BusinessAnalystAgent
    ArtifactStorage -->|Vision Document, Feature List| BusinessAnalystAgent
    SemanticMemory -->|Retrieve Similar Models| BusinessAnalystAgent
    DomainKnowledgeBase -->|Domain Best Practices| BusinessAnalystAgent

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✅ Inputs are retrieved from event triggers, storage systems, semantic memory queries.

📚 Example Input Payloads¶

📄 VisionDocumentCreated Event Example¶

{
  "event_type": "VisionDocumentCreated",
  "trace_id": "vision-2025-04-27-001",
  "artifact_uri": "https://storage.connectsoft.ai/vision/vision-2025-04-27-001.md",
  "timestamp": "2025-04-27T20:00:00Z"
}

📄 Example Extracted Vision Inputs¶

Field	Example
Vision Summary	"Build a SaaS platform to manage patient appointments online."
Strategic Goals	"Reduce no-shows by 25%; Increase user engagement by 30%."
Personas	"Patient", "Doctor", "Admin Staff"
Initial Features	"Appointment Scheduling", "Patient Registration", "Billing Management"
Constraints	"HIPAA Compliance Required", "MVP must launch within 4 months."

🧠 Optional Semantic Memory Boost (If Available)¶

Scenario	Semantic Memory Enrichment
Healthcare SaaS Project	Retrieve past Appointment Management requirements and BPMN flows.
E-Commerce Platform	Retrieve past "Cart Management" business process models.
Enterprise HR System	Retrieve past "Employee Onboarding" business rule sets.

✅ Semantic enrichment improves requirement precision and reduces blind spots.

📋 Input Quality Assurance¶

Input Check	Importance
Vision Document well-structured	Essential for clear decomposition.
Personas and Strategic Goals specified	Mandatory for aligning business needs.
Initial Features listed	Needed for decomposition into processes and requirements.
Constraints available (optional but helpful)	Enables early compliance validation.
Semantic Memory relevance (optional)	Boosts maturity of outputs.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Input Handling
Event-Driven Activation	Listens for VisionDocumentCreated events.
Semantic Memory Extensibility	Enhances reasoning using domain best practices.
Cloud-Native Artifact Retrieval	Inputs from flexible backends (Blob, Git, SQL).
Traceability-First	Inputs include trace IDs, project IDs, versioning.

📤 Outputs¶

The Business Analyst Agent produces formal, modular, business-readable artifacts
that transform raw vision into fully structured business documentation.

These outputs directly drive the Product Manager Agent's Product Planning phase —
ensuring that all downstream work is based on clear, validated, traceable business knowledge.

📋 Main Outputs Produced¶

Artifact	Description	Format
Business Requirements Document (BRD)	Structured list of functional and non-functional business requirements, linked to Vision.	Markdown + JSON
Business Rules Catalog	Structured listing of domain constraints, policies, regulatory rules.	Markdown Table + JSON
Business Process Models	Visual and structured representations of core workflows and user interactions (BPMN-lite or sequence diagrams).	Markdown + Diagram (Mermaid / JSON)
Gap Analysis Report	Structured documentation of gaps between current and desired states.	Markdown + JSON
Persona and Role Extensions	Enriched persona profiles with behaviors, goals, challenges, motivations.	Markdown + JSON
Traceability Matrix	Vision ➔ Strategic Goal ➔ Requirement ➔ Business Rule ➔ Process Mapping.	Markdown Table + JSON
Event Emissions	Structured event payloads signaling readiness: `BusinessRequirementsReady`, `BusinessRulesReady`, `BusinessProcessModelReady`, `GapAnalysisReady`.	JSON Event Payloads

🏗️ Visual: Output Artifact Generation Flow¶

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    VisionIntake --> RequirementExtraction
    RequirementExtraction --> BusinessRuleModeling
    BusinessRuleModeling --> ProcessModeling
    ProcessModeling --> GapAnalysis
    GapAnalysis --> PersonaEnrichment
    PersonaEnrichment --> ArtifactStructuring
    ArtifactStructuring --> ArtifactStorage
    ArtifactStructuring --> EventEmission

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✅ Modular and progressively enriched outputs.

📚 Example Artifact Structures¶

📋 Business Requirement Example¶

# Business Requirements - Healthcare Appointment Management SaaS

## Traceability
- Project ID: healthcare-saas-2025
- Vision Trace ID: vision-2025-04-27-001
- Strategic Goal: Reduce no-shows by 25%

## Requirements

| Requirement ID | Description | Priority | Traceability |
|:---------------|:-------------|:---------|:-------------|
| BR-001 | Patients must be able to schedule appointments online 24/7. | High | Linked to Vision Feature: "Appointment Scheduling" |
| BR-002 | Admin staff must have the ability to reschedule appointments with automatic patient notifications. | Medium | Linked to Vision Feature: "Appointment Management" |

📋 Business Rule Example¶

# Business Rules

| Rule ID | Rule Description | Linked Requirement |
|:--------|:-----------------|:-------------------|
| BRR-001 | Patients cannot book more than 3 future appointments simultaneously. | BR-001 |
| BRR-002 | Appointments must be confirmed within 24 hours by doctors. | BR-001 |

📋 Business Process Model Example (Mermaid Syntax)¶

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    Patient -->|Select Appointment| SchedulingSystem
    SchedulingSystem -->|Confirm Availability| Doctor
    Doctor -->|Accept/Reject| SchedulingSystem
    SchedulingSystem -->|Notify Patient| Patient

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✅ Simple BPMN-lite flow — readable by humans and machines.

📋 Gap Analysis Example¶

# Gap Analysis

| Area | As-Is State | To-Be State | Gap Identified | Recommendation |
|:-----|:------------|:------------|:---------------|:---------------|
| Appointment Notifications | Manual phone calls by admin | Automated SMS/Email notifications | CRM system lacks integration | Implement notification service |

📣 Event Emission Examples¶

Event	Payload Contents
`BusinessRequirementsReady`	Artifact URI, trace ID, version, timestamp
`BusinessRulesReady`	Artifact URI, trace ID, version
`BusinessProcessModelReady`	Artifact URI, trace ID, version
`GapAnalysisReady`	Artifact URI, trace ID, version

✅ Events activate Product Manager Agent for Product Planning.

📚 Output Validation Expectations¶

Validation Area	Requirement
Traceability	Every artifact linked back to Vision and Strategic Objectives.
Completeness	No incomplete requirement or process flows allowed.
Business Relevance	All outputs tied to business goals or processes.
Observability	Output creation traced, logged, and metered.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Output Alignment
Traceability-First	Every requirement, rule, process model fully traced.
Modular Artifacts	Each output atomic, linkable, and evolvable.
Event-Driven Readiness	Outputs activate downstream Product Planning Agents.
Cloud-Native Storage	Artifacts stored flexibly: Blob, Git, SQL, Documentation Systems.
Observability Embedded	Full telemetry for output generation and emission.

📚 Knowledge Base Overview¶

The Business Analyst Agent uses a preloaded, modular, and extensible internal Knowledge Base
that provides:

Templates for formalizing requirements and rules
Modeling frameworks for business processes
Gap analysis structures
Domain-specific enrichments (when available)

✅ This ensures the agent produces consistent, validated, business-aligned artifacts
✅ And scales across domains and industries without manual tuning.

📋 Core Knowledge Areas¶

Knowledge Area	Description
Business Requirement Templates	Standardized templates to structure functional and non-functional requirements cleanly.
Business Rule Modeling Standards	Best practices and templates for formalizing business rules, policies, regulatory requirements.
Business Process Modeling Frameworks	Lightweight BPMN or Flowchart modeling structures to visually describe business workflows.
Gap Analysis Frameworks	Structured models to compare As-Is vs To-Be states and highlight missing capabilities.
Persona Enrichment Models	Templates for expanding personas with goals, frustrations, motivations, and detailed behaviors.
Traceability Mapping Patterns	Structures for maintaining lineage from Vision ➔ Requirements ➔ Rules ➔ Processes.
Domain-Specific Semantic Memories (Optional)	Previously successful domain artifacts (e.g., Healthcare, Fintech, E-Commerce SaaS) for enrichment.
Compliance Patterns (Optional)	Templates for injecting compliance (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) into business rules and requirements when needed.

📚 Example Knowledge Base Assets¶

Asset	Example
`requirement-template.md`	Title, Description, Priority, Linked Vision Goal, Linked Personas, Dependencies
`business-rule-template.md`	Rule ID, Rule Description, Trigger Condition, Enforcement Mechanism
`bpmn-lite-patterns.md`	Mermaid or flowchart templates for modeling key processes
`gap-analysis-template.md`	As-Is, To-Be, Gap, Recommendation structured table
`persona-enrichment-form.md`	Persona's Goals, Frustrations, Motivations, Context Behaviors
`traceability-matrix-template.md`	Vision ➔ Goal ➔ Requirement ➔ Rule ➔ Process Mapping tables
`semantic-memory-query-patterns.md`	Retrieval prompts for enriching based on previous domain successes

🏛️ Visual: Knowledge Base Components¶

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    RequirementTemplates
    BusinessRuleTemplates
    ProcessModelFrameworks
    GapAnalysisFrameworks
    PersonaEnrichmentModels
    TraceabilityModels
    DomainSemanticMemories

    KnowledgeBase --> RequirementTemplates
    KnowledgeBase --> BusinessRuleTemplates
    KnowledgeBase --> ProcessModelFrameworks
    KnowledgeBase --> GapAnalysisFrameworks
    KnowledgeBase --> PersonaEnrichmentModels
    KnowledgeBase --> TraceabilityModels
    KnowledgeBase --> DomainSemanticMemories

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✅ All major output structures draw from this knowledge base.

📋 Knowledge Base Behavior Examples¶

Scenario	Knowledge Base Use
Creating a Business Rule	Load business-rule-template.md, enforce description and trigger condition sections.
Modeling Appointment Scheduling Flow	Use BPMN-lite pattern for user selection ➔ system confirmation ➔ notification process.
Detecting Compliance Need (e.g., HIPAA)	Inject HIPAA-related rules automatically using compliance templates if healthcare domain detected.
Enriching Personas	Extend Patient Persona to include "Frustration: Inability to reschedule appointments easily."

🧠 Smart Behaviors Enabled by Knowledge Base¶

Smart Behavior	Trigger
Apply Standardized Requirement Format	When extracting features into business needs.
Auto-Generate Initial Business Process Model	When decomposing major workflows.
Auto-Suggest Gap Analysis Fields	When comparing Current State vs Target State.
Compliance Rule Injection	When domain triggers (e.g., Healthcare) detected.
Semantic Similarity Search	When complex feature contexts are processed (e.g., billing flows, notification workflows).

📚 Example Business Requirement Template Structure¶

# Requirement

- **Requirement ID**: BR-001
- **Title**: Patient Appointment Scheduling
- **Description**: Patients must be able to view available appointment slots and schedule appointments online without staff assistance.
- **Priority**: High
- **Linked Vision Strategic Goal**: Reduce no-shows by 25%
- **Linked Feature**: Appointment Scheduling
- **Linked Personas**: Patient
- **Dependencies**: Notification System readiness

✅ Clear, modular, business-aligned.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Knowledge Base Contribution
Clean Modular Outputs	Templates enforce modular, consistent artifacts.
Traceability-First	Traceability patterns embedded from requirement extraction.
Observability	Each template/method applied is logged and traced.
Domain-Extensibility	Semantic enrichment allows evolution across industries.
Cloud-Native Readiness	All artifacts compatible with Git, Blob, SQL, Document Systems.

🔄 Process Flow Overview¶

The Business Analyst Agent follows a structured, modular, observable pipeline,
transforming raw vision and stakeholder context into validated business artifacts ready for downstream consumption.

✅ Every step ensures traceability, business alignment, autonomous validation, and cloud-native readiness.

📋 High-Level Process Phases¶

Phase	Description
1. Task Assignment	Agent activated via `VisionDocumentCreated` event. Metadata and artifact URIs retrieved.
2. Information Intake	Downloads Vision Document, parses Strategic Objectives, Personas, Initial Feature Lists.
3. Requirement Extraction	Translates vision features and business needs into structured business requirements.
4. Business Rule Modeling	Identifies domain-specific rules, compliance rules, operational constraints.
5. Business Process Modeling	Constructs simplified BPMN-lite flows representing core user and system interactions.
6. Gap Analysis	Compares existing capabilities (As-Is) vs desired future state (To-Be), identifies gaps.
7. Persona and Role Enrichment	Enhances initial personas with goals, frustrations, motivations, detailed behaviors.
8. Artifact Structuring	Organizes all outputs into modular, versioned artifacts with embedded traceability.
9. Validation	Structural, semantic, traceability validation of all outputs.
10. Correction (if needed)	Auto-corrects artifacts if validation fails; retries validation.
11. Artifact Storage	Stores artifacts into configured storage (Blob, Git, SQL, Doc Systems).
12. Event Emission	Emits `BusinessRequirementsReady`, `BusinessRulesReady`, `BusinessProcessModelReady`, `GapAnalysisReady`.
13. Observability Logging	Emits structured logs, traces, and metrics for full observability.

🏗️ Visual: Business Analyst Agent Process Flow Diagram¶

flowchart TD
    TaskAssignment["1. Task Assignment (VisionDocumentCreated Event)"]
    --> InformationIntake["2. Information Intake (Vision, Strategic Objectives, Personas)"]
    --> RequirementExtraction["3. Requirement Extraction"]
    --> BusinessRuleModeling["4. Business Rule Modeling"]
    --> BusinessProcessModeling["5. Business Process Modeling"]
    --> GapAnalysis["6. Gap Analysis"]
    --> PersonaEnrichment["7. Persona and Role Enrichment"]
    --> ArtifactStructuring["8. Artifact Structuring"]
    --> Validation["9. Validation"]
    Validation -->|Pass| ArtifactStorage["10. Artifact Storage"]
    Validation -->|Fail| CorrectionAttempt["10a. Correction and Retry"]
    ArtifactStorage --> EventEmission["11. Event Emission"]
    EventEmission --> Observability["12. Observability Logging and Metrics"]

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✅ Ensures full traceability, modularity, validation, and event-driven readiness.

🧠 Details of Each Phase¶

📥 1. Task Assignment¶

Listens to VisionDocumentCreated event.
Extracts artifact URI, trace_id, project_id.

📚 2. Information Intake¶

Downloads Vision Document.
Parses Strategic Goals, Initial Feature List, Personas.
Prepares task context memory.

📋 3. Requirement Extraction¶

Transforms business needs into modular, validated Business Requirements.

🧩 4. Business Rule Modeling¶

Formalizes business domain rules, policy conditions, regulatory constraints.

🏛️ 5. Business Process Modeling¶

Maps user/system interactions into lightweight BPMN-like flow diagrams.

🧠 6. Gap Analysis¶

Structures As-Is vs To-Be comparison tables and identifies missing capabilities.

👤 7. Persona and Role Enrichment¶

Expands persona details to include goals, frustrations, motivations, behavior flows.

🗂️ 8. Artifact Structuring¶

Organizes requirements, rules, processes, gaps, and personas into modular artifacts.

✅ 9. Validation¶

Ensures structural completeness, traceability, semantic alignment.

🔁 10. Correction¶

If validation fails, retries after auto-correction (e.g., missing trace_id, formatting fixes).

💾 11. Artifact Storage¶

Stores finalized artifacts into configured storage backends.

📣 12. Event Emission¶

Publishes readiness events to the EventBus for downstream agent activation.

📈 13. Observability¶

Structured logging, tracing, metric exposure at each critical phase.

📋 Validation at Key Checkpoints¶

Checkpoint	Validation Focus
After Requirement Extraction	Story completeness, modularity, traceability.
After Rule Modeling	Business logic consistency and linkage to requirements.
After Process Modeling	Process completeness, step clarity.
After Gap Analysis	Gap clarity, actionable recommendations.
Before Artifact Storage	Full structural validation of every artifact.
Before Event Emission	Event payload correctness (trace ID, artifact URI, versioning).

✅ Ensures end-to-end quality assurance before proceeding.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Process Flow Reflection
Event-Driven Factory Activation	Listens to events, emits new readiness events.
Modular Artifact Generation	Each phase produces modular, linkable outputs.
Traceability-First	Every artifact traced from Vision to Requirement/Process/Rule.
Observability-First	Traces, logs, metrics at every critical phase.
Resilient, Corrective Execution	Built-in validation and retry flows for artifact quality assurance.

🛠️ Technologies Overview¶

The Business Analyst Agent is architected with a cloud-native, modular, event-driven, and observability-first technology stack,
ensuring it operates autonomously, scalably, and resiliently inside the ConnectSoft Factory.

✅ The technology stack guarantees full skill composition, artifact storage flexibility, semantic enrichment, and traceability.

📋 Core Technology Stack¶

Technology	Purpose	Example Usage
Semantic Kernel (.NET)	Modular orchestration of Skills (Requirement Extraction, Business Rule Modeling, Process Mapping).	Skill chaining to transform Vision input into structured business outputs.
OpenAI Models (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI API)	LLM reasoning for business requirement writing, rule drafting, process description generation.	Convert Vision goals into structured business requirements and rules.
Flexible Artifact Storage (Blob Storage, Git, SQL, Documentation Systems, optional MCP Servers)	Store produced Business Requirement Docs, Rules, Gap Analyses, and Process Models.	Azure Blob for structured Markdown, Git Repos for versioning, SQL for structured querying.
Azure Event Grid / Kafka / RabbitMQ	Event-driven activation and emission: listens for `VisionDocumentCreated`, emits `BusinessRequirementsReady`, `BusinessRulesReady`, etc.	Modular, scalable event-driven flow.
OpenTelemetry + Serilog	Tracing and structured logging of agent execution steps, failures, retries.	Spans for each skill execution and correction flow.
Prometheus Metrics Exporter	Exposes agent health metrics (e.g., artifacts created, validation failures, corrections attempted).	Real-time dashboards and alerting.
Semantic Memory Retrieval (Optional)	Access domain-specific past artifacts to enrich current task.	Semantic retrieval of Healthcare SaaS requirements and process examples.

🏗️ Technologies Component Diagram¶

flowchart TD
    EventBus -->|VisionDocumentCreated Event| IntakeController
    IntakeController --> SemanticKernelPlanner
    SemanticKernelPlanner -->|Skill Invocation| RequirementSkillSet
    SemanticKernelPlanner -->|Skill Invocation| BusinessRuleSkillSet
    SemanticKernelPlanner -->|Skill Invocation| ProcessModelingSkillSet
    Skills --> ValidationEngine
    ValidationEngine -->|Pass| ArtifactStorageManager
    ValidationEngine -->|Fail| CorrectionManager
    ArtifactStorageManager --> EventPublisher
    EventPublisher --> EventBus
    AllModules -.-> ObservabilityStack(OpenTelemetry + Serilog + Prometheus)

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✅ Clear event-driven, skill-orchestrated, observability-integrated flow.

📦 Artifact Storage Flexibility¶

Storage Option	Supported	Notes
Azure Blob Storage	✅	Store Markdown, JSON artifacts securely and scalably.
Git Repositories (Azure DevOps, GitHub)	✅	Version control for requirement documents and business models.
SQL Databases (PostgreSQL, Azure SQL)	✅	Structured querying of requirements and business rules.
Documentation Systems (Confluence, DevOps Wiki)	✅	Human-readable artifacts publication.
MCP Servers (Optional)	✅	Cross-platform semantic artifact accessibility (optional use).

✅ No storage lock-in — configurable per deployment and project.

📚 Example Technology Usage Scenarios¶

Scenario	Technology Usage
Extracting Requirements	Semantic Kernel Skill + OpenAI prompt + Semantic Memory search
Storing BRD (Business Requirement Document)	Blob Storage + Git commit
Emitting Business Requirements Ready Event	EventPublisher module using Event Grid
Observability Metrics Emission	Prometheus metric update on each artifact storage
Semantic Memory Enrichment	Semantic Memory Retriever queries previous Healthcare SaaS documents

📋 Observability Hooks and Exposed Metrics¶

Observability Type	Tool	Example
Tracing	OpenTelemetry	Skill execution spans, correction retries, artifact emission tracing.
Logging	Serilog (JSON Logs)	Structured logs for all major agent steps (requirement creation, rule modeling).
Metrics	Prometheus Exporter	Metrics like `business_analyst_agent_artifacts_created_total`, `business_analyst_agent_validation_failures_total`.

✅ All observability components are native, automated, and factory-compliant.

📚 Important Semantic Kernel Skills Architecture¶

Skill Cluster	Example Skills
Requirement Extraction	Requirement Drafting, Goal Mapping, Priority Classification
Business Rule Modeling	Policy Rule Definition, Compliance Rule Suggestion
Process Mapping	Step Flow Generator, Role Interaction Modeling
Gap Analysis	As-Is/To-Be Comparator, Gap Detector
Validation and Correction	Completeness Validator, Semantic Traceability Checker
Event Publishing	Event Builder, Event Dispatcher

✅ Skills modular, retriable individually for resilience.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Technology Alignment
Cloud-Native Execution	Event Grid, Blob Storage, Git, SQL backends.
Event-Driven Orchestration	Full activation and readiness driven by events.
Observability-First	OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Serilog integrated.
Skill-Orchestrated Modularity	Semantic Kernel Skills structured, retriable, composable.
Resilience and Scalability	Retry mechanisms built at skill and event layers.

📝 System Prompt (Initialization Instruction)¶

The System Prompt is the initial instruction that bootstraps the Business Analyst Agent,
defining its role, behavior, operational scope, and output expectations.

This prompt ensures that the agent operates within ConnectSoft's best practices for:

Business alignment
Modular outputs
Traceability and observability
Cloud-native flexibility

📋 Full System Prompt Text¶

🧠 You are a Business Analyst Agent inside the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory.
Your mission is to transform high-level business vision and stakeholder context into structured, actionable business artifacts,
ready to be used by the Product Manager and Product Owner Agents for detailed product planning and development.

You must: - Extract clear business requirements, identifying both functional and non-functional needs. - Model business rules, compliance regulations, and domain constraints. - Map core business processes and workflows (BPMN-lite or flow diagrams). - Analyze the gaps between current (As-Is) and desired (To-Be) states, providing recommendations for bridging those gaps. - Enrich personas and roles based on the Vision Document and strategic goals. - Embed traceability into all outputs, linking business requirements, rules, and processes back to the Vision, strategic goals, and personas. - Produce modular, versioned artifacts that are machine-readable (JSON, Markdown) and human-readable. - Emit events such as BusinessRequirementsReady, BusinessRulesReady, BusinessProcessModelReady, GapAnalysisReady when your work is complete.

📋 Rules and Expectations: - Every artifact must be aligned with the vision, strategic goals, and stakeholder needs. - Outputs must be structured for easy consumption by downstream agents and stakeholders. - All outputs should be traceable, testable, and ready for agile product planning. - Observability is mandatory: every major action should emit logs, traces, and metrics for full transparency and error recovery. - Operate within cloud-native standards, assuming flexible storage backends (Blob Storage, Git, SQL, Documentation systems). - Follow ConnectSoft standards for business requirements documentation: clear, actionable, traceable, and compliance-ready.

🧠 Purpose of System Prompt¶

Objective	Why It’s Important
Define Role and Boundaries	Guarantees agent focuses on business needs and not on technical decomposition or UI design.
Enforce Modular, Actionable Outputs	Ensures that outputs are consumable by Product Manager and Product Owner agents.
Prioritize Business Alignment	All outputs must be tightly aligned to business goals and stakeholder needs.
Guarantee Traceability and Compliance	Artifacts must link to the Vision and strategic objectives.
Ensure Observability	Every action emits metrics, traces, and logs for full visibility.

🧩 Example Behavioral Directives Embedded¶

Directive	Impact
Business-Aligned Requirement Extraction	Ensures all artifacts are tied back to strategic business objectives.
Process Mapping and Modeling	Ensures workflows are captured in a structured, repeatable way.
Traceability Enforcement	Guarantees that every artifact links back to its source (Vision, Strategic Goal, etc.).
Event Emission for Downstream Activation	Ensures that the factory workflow continues smoothly and autonomously.
Observability and Error Handling	Every step is traceable, and errors are logged for recovery.

🧩 Visual: System Prompt Behavioral Model¶

flowchart TD
    VisionDocumentIntake --> BusinessRequirementsExtraction
    BusinessRequirementsExtraction --> BusinessRuleModeling
    BusinessRuleModeling --> BusinessProcessModeling
    BusinessProcessModeling --> GapAnalysis
    GapAnalysis --> PersonaEnrichment
    PersonaEnrichment --> ArtifactStructuring
    ArtifactStructuring --> Validation
    Validation -->|Pass| ArtifactStorage
    Validation -->|Fail| Correction
    ArtifactStorage --> EventEmission
    EventEmission --> ObservabilityLogging

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✅ All actions are observable, traceable, and organized for high efficiency.

📋 Output Example: Business Requirements Document (BRD)¶

# Business Requirements Document (BRD)

## Project Information
- Project ID: healthcare-saas-2025
- Vision Trace ID: vision-2025-04-27-001
- Strategic Goal: Reduce no-shows by 25%

## Requirements

| Requirement ID | Description | Priority | Traceability |
|:---------------|:------------|:---------|:-------------|
| BR-001 | Patients must be able to book appointments online. | High | Linked to Vision Feature: "Appointment Scheduling" |
| BR-002 | Admins must be able to reschedule appointments. | Medium | Linked to Vision Feature: "Appointment Management" |

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	System Prompt Alignment
Event-Driven Activation and Handoff	Each task is activated by a Vision Document event and triggers downstream events.
Modular Output Artifacts	All output artifacts are modular and consumable by downstream agents.
Traceability-First	All artifacts must be traceable to the originating Vision, strategic goals, and personas.
Observability-First	Every major action emits logs, metrics, and traces for full observability.
Cloud-Native and Scalable	Artifact storage is flexible (Blob, Git, SQL, Documentation Systems) and scalable.

📥 Input Prompt Template¶

The Business Analyst Agent builds a structured internal input prompt to transform incoming task data
(e.g., VisionDocumentCreated event, business goals, stakeholder context) into a clear, focused instruction for the agent's reasoning process.

This prompt ensures the agent:

Understands business requirements, strategic goals, personas, and feature scope.
Produces business-aligned outputs that feed seamlessly into the Product Manager and Product Owner Agents.

📋 Standard Input Prompt Template¶

## Input Information

Vision Summary:
{vision_summary}

Strategic Objectives:
{strategic_objectives_list}

Personas Identified:
{persona_list}

Feature Catalog:
{feature_catalog_list}

Initial Business Constraints:
{business_constraints}

Domain Knowledge (Optional):
{domain_knowledge}

Project Metadata:
- Project ID: {project_id}
- Vision Trace ID: {vision_trace_id}
- Product Plan Version: {product_plan_version}
- MVP Deadline: {mvp_deadline} (Optional)

---

## Task for Business Analyst Agent

Using the above context:

1. **Extract** functional and non-functional business requirements.
2. **Model** business rules, policies, and compliance constraints.
3. **Map** core business processes, workflows, and event sequences (BPMN-lite or flow diagrams).
4. **Conduct a Gap Analysis** between current (As-Is) and future (To-Be) states.
5. **Enrich Personas** based on Vision insights and strategic goals.
6. **Structure outputs** in modular, traceable formats:
   - Markdown (Business Requirements, Business Rules, Process Models, Gap Analysis).
   - JSON (for machine consumption and traceability).

7. **Emit events**:
   - `BusinessRequirementsReady`
   - `BusinessRulesReady`
   - `BusinessProcessModelReady`
   - `GapAnalysisReady`

---

## Style Guide

- Clear modular sections: Requirements, Rules, Processes, Gap Analysis.
- Business-aligned and stakeholder-focused outputs.
- Outputs must be machine-readable (JSON) and human-readable (Markdown).
- Maintain traceability between Vision, Goals, Requirements, Rules, and Processes.
- Embrace **cloud-native storage formats** for output compatibility (Blob, Git, SQL).
- **Observability-first**: Log key actions and emit traces for full visibility.

🧠 Example Runtime Parameterized Values¶

Placeholder	Example
`{vision_summary}`	"A SaaS platform to manage healthcare appointments."
`{strategic_objectives_list}`	"Reduce missed appointments by 30%; Enhance patient engagement."
`{persona_list}`	"Patient", "Doctor", "Admin Staff"
`{feature_catalog_list}`	"Appointment Scheduling", "Patient Management", "Notifications"
`{business_constraints}`	"Must comply with HIPAA regulations."
`{domain_knowledge}`	"Healthcare appointment booking best practices."
`{project_id}`	"healthcare-appointments-2025"
`{vision_trace_id}`	"vision-2025-04-27-001"
`{product_plan_version}`	"1.0"
`{mvp_deadline}`	"2025-09-30"

🧩 Input Flow Overview¶

flowchart TD
    VisionDocumentIntake --> VisionParsing
    VisionParsing --> ContextAssembly
    FeatureCatalogParsing --> ContextAssembly
    StrategicGoalsParsing --> ContextAssembly
    PersonaParsing --> ContextAssembly
    ConstraintsParsing --> ContextAssembly
    DomainKnowledgeParsing --> ContextAssembly
    ContextAssembly --> StructuredInputPrompt

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✅ All inputs are modularly parsed and assembled into a structured internal input prompt.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Input Prompt Alignment
Domain-Driven Modeling	All inputs map directly to business requirements, rules, and processes.
Event-Driven Activation	Prompt generation is triggered by `VisionDocumentCreated` event.
Modular Output Design	Clear segmentation between business requirements, rules, and process flows.
Observability-First	Logs, traces, and metrics are embedded throughout prompt execution.
Cloud-Native Integration	Outputs structured for flexible storage backends (Blob, Git, SQL, Documentation Systems).

📤 Output Expectations¶

The Business Analyst Agent must produce business-ready, high-quality, and traceable artifacts that directly feed into the Product Planning lifecycle.

Each output must meet the following quality standards:

Business Alignment
Structural Completeness
Testability (where applicable)
Traceability (back to Vision, Strategic Goals, Personas)
Modular and Scalable (ready for downstream consumption by Product Owner Agent and others)
Observability (logs, metrics, and traceability at every output phase).

📋 Primary Output Artifacts and Expectations¶

Artifact	Description	Required Structure
Business Requirements Document (BRD)	Fully structured document containing functional and non-functional business requirements.	Markdown + JSON
Business Rules Catalog	Structured listing of all business rules, policies, and constraints.	Markdown Table + JSON
Business Process Models	Visual and structured representations of business workflows and user interactions.	Mermaid Diagrams or Flowcharts + Markdown
Gap Analysis Report	Detailed comparison of As-Is vs To-Be states with actionable recommendations.	Markdown + JSON
Persona and Role Extensions	Extended persona profiles with motivations, behaviors, and goals based on Vision.	Markdown + JSON
Traceability Matrix	Vision ➔ Strategic Goal ➔ Business Requirement ➔ Business Rule ➔ Business Process mapping.	Markdown Table + JSON
Event Emissions	Event payloads triggering downstream activation, e.g., `BusinessRequirementsReady`, `BusinessRulesReady`.	JSON Event Payload

📚 Example: Business Requirements Document (BRD)¶

# Business Requirements Document (BRD) - Healthcare Appointment Scheduling

## Project Information
- **Project ID**: healthcare-saas-2025
- **Vision Trace ID**: vision-2025-04-27-001
- **Strategic Goal**: Reduce no-shows by 30%

## Requirements

| Requirement ID | Description | Priority | Traceability |
|:---------------|:------------|:---------|:-------------|
| BR-001 | Patients must be able to book appointments online. | High | Linked to Vision Feature: "Appointment Scheduling" |
| BR-002 | Admin staff must be able to reschedule appointments and notify patients automatically. | Medium | Linked to Vision Feature: "Appointment Management" |

✅ Traceability from Vision to requirement, feature, and personas.
✅ MVP prioritization is clear.

📋 Example: Business Rules Catalog¶

# Business Rules

| Rule ID | Rule Description | Linked Requirement |
|:--------|:-----------------|:-------------------|
| BRR-001 | Patients cannot book more than 3 appointments at the same time. | BR-001 |
| BRR-002 | Appointments must be confirmed within 24 hours by the doctor. | BR-001 |

✅ Compliant with domain-specific business rules.

📋 Example: Business Process Model (Mermaid Syntax)¶

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    Patient -->|Select Appointment| SchedulingSystem
    SchedulingSystem -->|Confirm Availability| Doctor
    Doctor -->|Accept/Reject Appointment| SchedulingSystem
    SchedulingSystem -->|Notify Patient| Patient

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✅ Simple BPMN-lite diagram. Ready for human or machine consumption.

📋 Example: Gap Analysis Report¶

# Gap Analysis

| Area | Current State (As-Is) | Desired State (To-Be) | Gap | Recommendation |
|:-----|:----------------------|:----------------------|:----|:---------------|
| Appointment Scheduling | Manual phone booking | Online appointment booking system | Lacking real-time scheduling system | Implement an automated scheduling system with online integration. |
| Notification System | No patient reminders | Automated SMS/email notifications | Outdated system | Integrate a reminder service for appointment confirmation and reminders. |

✅ Clear, actionable insights for bridging business gaps.

📣 Event Emissions Examples¶

Event Type	Triggered After	Payload Details
`BusinessRequirementsReady`	Business Requirements document finalization	Artifact URI, trace_id, version, timestamp
`BusinessRulesReady`	Business Rules catalog finalization	Artifact URI, trace_id, version
`BusinessProcessModelReady`	Process modeling finalization	Artifact URI, trace_id, version
`GapAnalysisReady`	Gap Analysis report finalization	Artifact URI, trace_id, version

Example Event Payload:

{
  "event_type": "BusinessRequirementsReady",
  "trace_id": "vision-2025-04-27-001",
  "artifact_uri": "https://storage.connectsoft.ai/business/requirements-2025-04-27-001.md",
  "version": "1.0",
  "timestamp": "2025-04-28T03:00:00Z"
}

✅ Event-driven activation for downstream agents like Product Manager and Product Owner.

🧩 Validation Expectations¶

Validation Area	Requirement
Traceability	Every output artifact must link back to the Vision Document, Strategic Goals, Personas, and Requirements.
Completeness	Every business requirement, business rule, and process model must be fully defined with no gaps.
Business Alignment	Ensure all outputs are tightly aligned with business goals and stakeholder needs.
Observability	Every output phase must emit traces, logs, and metrics for monitoring and debugging.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Output Expectations Alignment
Domain-Driven Design	Artifacts are domain-specific and traceable to business needs.
Event-Driven Activation	Emission of events triggers downstream tasks and flows.
Traceability-First	Outputs fully traceable to Vision and strategic objectives.
Modular Outputs	All outputs are atomic, versioned, and ready for downstream consumption.
Observability-First	Every major action (output generation, event emission) is logged, traced, and metered.

🧠 Memory Management Overview¶

The Business Analyst Agent uses a dual-memory strategy to optimize its reasoning and output generation:

Short-Term Memory (STM) — Current task context, including Vision, requirements, strategic goals, personas, and active session data.
Long-Term Semantic Memory (LTM) — Business rules, process models, and requirements from past projects or domain knowledge, enabling continuous learning and enrichment.

This dual-memory system helps the agent generate consistent, domain-specific, high-quality outputs,
while also learning from previous patterns and adapting over time.

📋 Short-Term Memory (Context Window)¶

Aspect	Description
Scope	Limited to the current task session (e.g., Vision intake to requirement extraction).
Stored Content	Task-specific metadata: Vision Summary, Strategic Goals, Personas, Initial Features, Constraints.
Purpose	Maintain consistency across the current task session (e.g., decompose the Vision into business requirements).
Storage	In-memory, scoped to the agent's current execution.
Lifetime	Cleared once the task is completed, and artifacts are emitted or stored.

✅ Short-term memory ensures the Business Analyst Agent can reason seamlessly within a single task context without overloading LLM token limits.

📂 Long-Term Semantic Memory (Vector-Based Retrieval)¶

Aspect	Description
Storage	External memory store such as semantic vector databases (e.g., Azure Cognitive Search, Pinecone, Redis Vector, or optional MCP Servers【your clarified model】).
Stored Content	Historical Business Requirements, Process Models, Business Rules, Domain Knowledge from past projects.
Retrieval Method	Semantic similarity search — e.g., "Retrieve similar Healthcare SaaS requirement documents."
Usage	Enriches current requirements extraction with past patterns, industry standards, and successful templates.
Update Strategy	After task completion, new insights (e.g., rules, models) are saved back into memory for future use.

✅ Long-term memory allows the agent to learn and improve over time, making it smarter as it handles more projects.

🏗️ Memory Flow Diagram¶

flowchart TD
    VisionDocumentIntake --> ShortTermContextCreation
    ShortTermContextCreation --> RequirementExtraction
    RequirementExtraction -->|Optional Memory Enrichment| SemanticMemoryLookup
    SemanticMemoryLookup -->|Enhance Context| RequirementExtraction
    RequirementExtraction --> Validation
    Validation --> ArtifactStorage
    ArtifactStorage -->|Store Memory Data| SemanticMemoryUpdate

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✅ Memory enhancement is triggered dynamically based on the task and past project patterns.

📚 Example: Memory Content During Task¶

Memory Type	Example Content
Short-Term Memory	`vision_summary: "Develop a SaaS platform for managing patient appointments"`, `mvp_features: ["Appointment Scheduling", "Patient Registration"]`, `strategic_goals: ["Reduce no-shows", "Increase engagement"]`.
Long-Term Memory	Previous `Healthcare SaaS` backlogs, including user stories for appointment scheduling systems, patient management systems, and regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA compliance rules).

🧠 Smart Memory Behaviors¶

Scenario	Memory Behavior
New Feature (e.g., Patient Scheduling)	Retrieve past scheduling flow models from semantic memory for faster, richer decomposition.
Complex Requirement (e.g., Billing System)	Retrieve best practices and requirements from past billing-related projects.
New Domain (e.g., E-Commerce)	Search for previous `E-Commerce` business requirements and process models to reuse existing knowledge.
Persona Clarification	Query historical persona models from previous projects to improve and enrich current personas.

📈 Memory Management Quality Assurance¶

Memory Type	QA Focus	Validity Check
Short-Term	Task-specific consistency	Validate that all required fields are captured (Vision Summary, Features, Personas).
Long-Term	Relevance and fresh knowledge	Ensure that long-term memory reflects the most up-to-date and applicable business domain patterns.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Memory Management Reflection
Event-Driven Factory	Memory is updated dynamically based on events like `VisionDocumentCreated`, `BusinessRequirementsReady`.
Cloud-Native Scalability	External memory (semantic stores, vector DBs) can scale with the number of processed projects.
Observability	Memory queries and updates are logged and traced for visibility.
Resilience	Memory provides intelligent fallback by enriching current context with past knowledge, reducing ambiguity.
Multi-Edition SaaS Awareness	Memory stores feature-specific data that can vary by SaaS edition (e.g., Healthcare vs E-Commerce requirements).

✅ Validation Strategy¶

The Business Analyst Agent must ensure that every artifact it generates — including Business Requirements, Business Rules, Process Models, and Gap Analysis Reports — adheres to strict quality standards before being stored or emitted.

The validation process guarantees:

Business relevance and alignment to strategic goals
Structural completeness
Traceability to the Vision and Product Plan
Compliance with domain standards (when applicable)
Observability for monitoring and debugging

📋 Key Validation Areas¶

Validation Type	Description
Business Relevance Validation	Ensure all requirements and processes are directly linked to the strategic goals and personas.
Structural Completeness	Verify all fields are populated in the requirements, rules, and processes.
Traceability	Ensure every artifact (requirement, rule, process) links to the Vision, Strategic Goal, and Persona.
Regulatory/Compliance Validation	Check if business rules or requirements align with legal, regulatory, or compliance constraints (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).
Consistency	Ensure there are no conflicting business rules or requirements (e.g., conflicting policies in the same process).
Testability	Validate that acceptance criteria for requirements and processes are clear, measurable, and testable.
Observability	Ensure all output artifacts are traceable, with metrics and logs for each major action.

🏛️ Example: Business Requirement Validation¶

Requirement ID	Description	Priority	Traceability	Validation
BR-001	Patients must be able to book appointments online.	High	Linked to Vision Feature: "Appointment Scheduling"	✅ Valid: aligns with strategic goal of reducing no-shows, testable acceptance criteria.
BR-002	Admin staff must be able to reschedule appointments.	Medium	Linked to Vision Feature: "Appointment Management"	✅ Valid: aligns with strategic goal, testable, and consistent with other requirements.
BR-003	Appointment cancellations must be processed by the system within 24 hours.	Low	Linked to Vision Feature: "Notification Management"	❌ Invalid: Conflicts with "Appointment Rescheduling" requirement, needs review.

🧩 Validation Workflow¶

flowchart TD
    RequirementExtraction --> BusinessRelevanceValidation
    BusinessRelevanceValidation --> StructuralValidation
    StructuralValidation --> TraceabilityValidation
    TraceabilityValidation --> RegulatoryComplianceValidation
    RegulatoryComplianceValidation --> ConsistencyValidation
    ConsistencyValidation --> TestabilityValidation
    TestabilityValidation -->|Pass| ValidationComplete
    TestabilityValidation -->|Fail| CorrectionLoop
    CorrectionLoop --> RetryValidation
    RetryValidation -->|Pass| ValidationComplete
    RetryValidation -->|Fail| HumanIntervention

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✅ Two full validation cycles are allowed before human escalation.

📚 Example Validation Criteria¶

Business Relevance:
All requirements must be linked to one or more Strategic Goals from the Vision Document. Example: "Reduce patient no-shows" → requirement: "Patients must book appointments online."
Structural Completeness:
Each requirement should include:
- Requirement ID
- Description
- Priority
- Linked Vision Feature
- Persona(s)
- Acceptance Criteria
Traceability:
Each requirement must link to Vision, Strategic Goal, Feature, and Persona.
Compliance:
Business Rules must check against HIPAA, GDPR, or other relevant regulatory requirements.

🧠 Self-Validation Examples¶

Business Rule Model Validation¶

# Business Rules

| Rule ID | Rule Description | Linked Requirement | Validation Result |
|:--------|:-----------------|:-------------------|:------------------|
| BRR-001 | Patients cannot book more than 3 appointments simultaneously. | BR-001 | ✅ Valid |
| BRR-002 | Appointments must be confirmed within 24 hours by doctors. | BR-001 | ✅ Valid |
| BRR-003 | Doctors must approve all appointment cancellations. | BR-002 | ❌ Invalid: Missing process for handling cancellations. |

Business Process Model Validation¶

flowchart TD
    Patient -->|Select Appointment| SchedulingSystem
    SchedulingSystem -->|Confirm Availability| Doctor
    Doctor -->|Accept/Reject| SchedulingSystem
    SchedulingSystem -->|Notify Patient| Patient

    %% Validation Checkpoints %%
    SchedulingSystem -->|Valid: Appointment Slot Available| AppointmentConfirmation
    AppointmentConfirmation -->|Valid: Appointment Slot Confirmed| SchedulingComplete

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✅ All process models are validated for completeness, ensuring all interactions are accounted for, and no step is left ambiguous.

📚 Validation Behavior in Practice¶

Behavior	Trigger	Validation
Duplicate Requirement Detection	If identical requirements (e.g., "Book Appointment") exist, flag as duplicate.	Mark for correction or merging.
Compliance Check	If "Patient Management" involves sensitive data, check for HIPAA or GDPR rules.	Flag as invalid if rules are missing.
Testability Enforcement	Ensure that each requirement has at least one binary test condition.	Mark for correction if vague or non-testable.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Validation Alignment
Modular Validation	Each artifact (requirement, rule, process) validated independently.
Event-Driven Activation	Validation triggers event emission once validated.
Traceability-First	Every output is traceable back to Vision, Strategic Goal, Persona.
Observability	Validation steps logged and traced, metrics emitted for failures.
Resilient Execution	Errors auto-corrected before human escalation, ensuring minimal disruption.

🔁 Retry and Correction Flow¶

The Business Analyst Agent must have robust self-healing capabilities:
If any validation fails (e.g., missing fields, invalid business rules), it will attempt corrections automatically
before escalating to human intervention.

This ensures the agent is resilient, autonomous, and operational without human dependencies.

📋 Correction Strategy Overview¶

Error Type	Correction Attempt	Retry Behavior
Missing Fields	Auto-fill missing fields (e.g., missing trace IDs, linked strategic goals).	Immediate retry validation.
Incorrect Format	Correct formatting errors (e.g., non-compliant requirement descriptions).	Retry formatting and validation.
Missing Business Rule	Generate missing rules (e.g., "reschedule appointment within 24 hours").	Retry after applying standard rules templates.
Traceability Failures	Regenerate traceability links (e.g., missing links to personas, strategic goals).	Retry traceability check.
Testability Failures	Regenerate binary testable conditions for ambiguous requirements.	Retry validation.
Event Emission Failures	Retry event emission up to 3 times with exponential backoff.	If retries fail, escalate.

🏗️ Retry and Correction Flow Diagram¶

flowchart TD
    ValidationFailure --> AutoCorrectionAttempt
    AutoCorrectionAttempt --> RetryValidation
    RetryValidation -->|Pass| ArtifactStorage
    RetryValidation -->|Fail| SecondCorrectionAttempt
    SecondCorrectionAttempt --> RetryValidation2
    RetryValidation2 -->|Pass| ArtifactStorage
    RetryValidation2 -->|Fail| HumanInterventionTrigger

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✅ Two full correction cycles are allowed before human escalation.

📚 Example Correction Mechanisms¶

Missing Traceability Links¶

Trigger: No persona or strategic_goal linked to a requirement.
Correction: Auto-populate from Vision Document or previously fetched project metadata.
Validation: Retry validation step with completed traceability.

Incorrect Story Format¶

Trigger: Requirement description doesn’t follow format: "As a [persona], I want [goal], so that [business benefit]".
Correction: Reformat description automatically.
Validation: Retry validation with correctly formatted story.

Business Rule Missing¶

Trigger: Rule for appointment scheduling (e.g., "Doctor must confirm appointment within 24 hours") is not found.
Correction: Auto-generate standard business rule template based on Vision (e.g., "All appointment confirmations must be completed within 24 hours").
Validation: Retry rule validation with newly generated business rule.

🧠 Correction and Retry Workflow¶

Validation Failure: The agent attempts to validate an artifact.
Auto-Correction Attempt: If validation fails, the agent automatically tries to correct the issue.
Retry Validation: After correction, the agent retries the validation step.
Second Attempt: If the issue persists, a second automatic correction is triggered.
Escalation: If both correction attempts fail, the agent escalates to human intervention.

📈 Observability of Retry and Correction Process¶

Metric Name	Purpose
`business_analyst_agent_validation_failures_total`	Total number of initial validation failures.
`business_analyst_agent_corrections_attempted_total`	Total number of corrections attempted.
`business_analyst_agent_validation_retry_success_total`	Total retries that succeeded without human intervention.
`business_analyst_agent_escalations_total`	Total escalations triggered after failed retries.

✅ All actions are logged and traced to ensure transparency and track agent recovery rates.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Correction and Retry Alignment
Resilient Execution	Automatic retries ensure minimal manual intervention.
Event-Driven Activation	Event-driven corrections and emissions ensure seamless continuation.
Observability First	Full tracing and logging of correction and retry processes.
Cloud-Native Scalability	Self-healing mechanisms scale without external intervention.

🛠️ Skills Overview¶

The Business Analyst Agent uses a modular skill system that orchestrates different tasks during the business requirements extraction, modeling, and validation processes. Each skill is designed to focus on a specific sub-task, allowing for flexibility, scalability, and resilience.

The skills range from requirement extraction and rule modeling to process mapping and gap analysis.
These skills are chained dynamically by the Semantic Kernel, ensuring that the agent produces structured, validated, and actionable business artifacts.

📋 Core Skill Categories¶

Skill Category	Description	Example Skills
Requirement Extraction	Extracts clear functional and non-functional business requirements from Vision.	"Extract Appointment Scheduling requirement", "Map no-show reduction goal to functional requirements"
Business Rule Modeling	Formalizes business rules, constraints, and compliance requirements.	"Model rule for patient appointment cancellation", "Ensure compliance with HIPAA for data storage"
Business Process Mapping	Maps core business workflows and user interactions into simple process models (e.g., BPMN-lite).	"Map appointment booking flow", "Model user registration process"
Gap Analysis	Compares current system capabilities (As-Is) with the desired future state (To-Be) and identifies gaps.	"Identify gap in appointment scheduling system", "Document missing feature for multi-user scheduling"
Persona Enrichment	Expands and enriches personas with business context (motivations, goals, behaviors).	"Define patient persona goals", "Identify admin role challenges in appointment scheduling"
Traceability Mapping	Ensures that each artifact (requirement, rule, process) is traceable to Vision and Strategic Objectives.	"Link requirements to Vision and strategic goals", "Map business rules to process models"
Validation and Quality Check	Ensures that the generated artifacts are complete, consistent, and business-aligned.	"Validate requirements for testability", "Ensure that all business rules are linked to requirements"
Event Emission	Prepares and emits events to trigger downstream actions.	"Emit `BusinessRequirementsReady` event", "Trigger `BusinessProcessModelReady` event"

🏗️ Skills Flow Diagram¶

flowchart TD
    RequirementExtraction --> BusinessRuleModeling
    BusinessRuleModeling --> BusinessProcessMapping
    BusinessProcessMapping --> GapAnalysis
    GapAnalysis --> PersonaEnrichment
    PersonaEnrichment --> TraceabilityMapping
    TraceabilityMapping --> ValidationAndQualityCheck
    ValidationAndQualityCheck --> EventEmission

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✅ Skills are chained dynamically through the Semantic Kernel — ensuring smooth, task-oriented flow.

📚 Detailed Skills Descriptions¶

Requirement Extraction Skill¶

Purpose: Extracts clear, actionable business requirements from the Vision Document.
Input: Vision, personas, strategic objectives.
Output: Structured Business Requirements (functional and non-functional).

Example:

- Extract functional requirement: "As a patient, I want to book an appointment online so that I can schedule it without staff intervention."
- Extract non-functional requirement: "The system must handle at least 500 concurrent appointment bookings."

Business Rule Modeling Skill¶

Purpose: Formalizes business rules, policies, and constraints relevant to the project.
Input: Business requirements, compliance standards, domain knowledge.
Output: A catalog of business rules.

Example:

- Rule: "Appointments must be confirmed within 24 hours by the doctor."
- Rule: "Patient data must be stored in compliance with GDPR regulations."

Business Process Mapping Skill¶

Purpose: Creates simplified process models (e.g., BPMN-lite) of core business flows.
Input: Business requirements, stakeholder inputs, user journeys.
Output: Process models, flowcharts, diagrams.

Example:

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    Patient -->|Select Appointment| SchedulingSystem
    SchedulingSystem -->|Check Availability| Doctor
    Doctor -->|Confirm/Reject| SchedulingSystem
    SchedulingSystem -->|Notify Patient| Patient

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Gap Analysis Skill¶

Purpose: Identifies gaps between the current system state (As-Is) and the desired future state (To-Be).
Input: Current system analysis, target business state, vision goals.
Output: Gap Analysis Report.

Example:

| Area | Current System | Future State | Gap | Recommendation |
|:-----|:---------------|:-------------|:----|:---------------|
| Scheduling System | Manual phone calls | Online automated system | Lack of automation | Build online scheduling tool |

Persona Enrichment Skill¶

Purpose: Enhances personas with deeper insights into behaviors, challenges, motivations, and goals.
Input: Initial persona definitions from Vision, strategic goals.
Output: Enriched persona profiles.

Example:

- Persona: Patient
    - Goal: Book appointments easily
    - Frustration: Difficulty in finding available appointment times
    - Motivation: Schedule appointments quickly and efficiently

Traceability Mapping Skill¶

Purpose: Ensures that all business artifacts are linked to their strategic goals, vision, and personas.
Input: Business requirements, rules, process models.
Output: Traceability Matrix.

Example:

| Artifact | Linked Vision | Strategic Goal | Persona |
|:---------|:-------------|:---------------|:--------|
| BR-001   | Vision-2025   | Reduce no-shows | Patient |
| BR-002   | Vision-2025   | Improve engagement | Admin Staff |

Validation and Quality Check Skill¶

Purpose: Ensures completeness, consistency, and testability of all artifacts.
Input: Generated requirements, business rules, process models.
Output: Validated business requirements and models.

Example:

- Ensure that all requirements are testable.
- Ensure no conflicting business rules are present.

Event Emission Skill¶

Purpose: Emits events once artifacts are validated and ready for downstream consumption.
Input: Completed artifacts (Business Requirements, Rules, Process Models).
Output: Event payloads triggering the next phase of the process.

Example:

{
  "event_type": "BusinessRequirementsReady",
  "trace_id": "vision-2025-04-27-001",
  "artifact_uri": "https://storage.connectsoft.ai/business/requirements-2025-04-27-001.md",
  "timestamp": "2025-04-28T03:00:00Z"
}

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Skills Alignment
Modular Skills	Each skill focuses on one specific task, enabling easy updates and improvements.
Resilience and Scalability	Auto-corrections and retries built into the skill workflows.
Event-Driven	Skill outputs trigger event emissions to activate downstream agents.
Observability-First	Every skill emits telemetry data (logs, traces, metrics) for full transparency.
Cloud-Native	All skills support modular storage and event handling, ensuring flexibility.

🔗 Collaboration Interfaces¶

The Business Analyst Agent plays a key role in the business requirements refinement phase.
It interacts primarily with Product Manager, Product Owner, and other upstream and downstream agents via events and artifacts.

These collaboration interfaces ensure that:

Business requirements, process models, and rules are communicated effectively across the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory.
Observability is built into every interaction, ensuring complete transparency.

📋 Primary Collaboration Interfaces¶

Interface Type	Purpose	Downstream Consumer
Event Emission	Notify downstream agents of completed tasks (e.g., business requirements ready, rules catalog ready).	Product Manager, Product Owner, Developers, Architects, QA Engineers.
Artifact Storage	Store final business artifacts (requirements, rules, models) for downstream consumption.	Artifact retrieval services, GitOps, DevOps pipelines.
Semantic Memory Retrieval (Optional)	Retrieve similar business models, requirements, or rules from past projects.	Future Business Analyst Agents, Domain-Specific Agents.
Observability Logging	Emit logs, traces, and metrics at each critical step for full transparency.	DevOps, Factory Health Dashboards, Control Plane.

🏗️ Event Emission Diagram¶

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    BusinessAnalystAgent -->|BusinessRequirementsReady Event| EventBus
    BusinessAnalystAgent -->|BusinessRulesReady Event| EventBus
    BusinessAnalystAgent -->|BusinessProcessModelReady Event| EventBus
    BusinessAnalystAgent -->|GapAnalysisReady Event| EventBus

    EventBus --> ProductManagerAgent
    EventBus --> ProductOwnerAgent
    EventBus --> UXDesignerAgent
    EventBus --> EnterpriseArchitectAgent
    EventBus --> QAEngineerAgent

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✅ Event-driven communication between agents ensures parallel, asynchronous collaboration.

📈 Observability Hooks¶

Observability is a key feature for maintaining transparency and diagnosing issues in an autonomous system.

The Business Analyst Agent emits key observability data during each phase:

Observability Type	Tool	Metrics/Logs/Traces
Tracing	OpenTelemetry	Each skill invocation (requirement extraction, business rule modeling) emits trace spans.
Logging	Serilog (Structured JSON Logs)	Logs every major decision, validation failure, and correction attempt.
Metrics	Prometheus	Counters for `business_analyst_agent_requirements_created`, `validation_failures_total`, `event_emissions_total`.

✅ Full observability ensures real-time tracking of the agent's actions and potential errors.

🧠 Example Observability Metrics¶

Metric Name	Purpose
`business_analyst_agent_requirements_created_total`	Count of total business requirements successfully created.
`business_analyst_agent_validation_failures_total`	Count of validation failures (e.g., missing fields or errors).
`business_analyst_agent_corrections_attempted_total`	Count of auto-corrections triggered by the agent.
`business_analyst_agent_escalations_total`	Count of human interventions triggered by failed retries.
`business_analyst_agent_event_emissions_total`	Count of events successfully emitted to EventBus.

✅ All critical actions and outcomes are logged and trackable for debugging and optimization.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Collaboration and Observability Alignment
Event-Driven Architecture	Business Analyst Agent emits events that activate downstream agents like Product Manager and Product Owner.
Modular, Scalable Outputs	Outputs are stored in flexible backends and can be consumed by any downstream agent.
Observability-First	Traces, logs, and metrics are emitted for every major decision, validation, and correction.
Loose Coupling	No direct synchronous calls between agents — everything is event-driven.
Resilient Execution	Auto-correction, retries, and observability ensure minimal errors and smooth execution.

📉 Example of Logging and Tracing¶

Log Entry:

{
  "timestamp": "2025-04-28T04:00:00Z",
  "level": "Information",
  "message": "Successfully extracted business requirement for Appointment Scheduling",
  "agent": "BusinessAnalystAgent",
  "trace_id": "vision-2025-04-27-001",
  "artifact_id": "BR-001"
}

Trace Span:

{
  "trace_id": "vision-2025-04-27-001",
  "span_id": "span-001",
  "name": "Requirement Extraction",
  "start_time": "2025-04-28T04:00:00Z",
  "end_time": "2025-04-28T04:05:00Z",
  "status": "Success"
}

🧩 Collaboration Workflow Example¶

Vision Document is created and received by the Business Analyst Agent via VisionDocumentCreated event.
The agent extracts business requirements and models business rules and processes.
The agent validates and structures the requirements, then emits the BusinessRequirementsReady event to notify downstream agents.
Downstream agents (Product Manager, Product Owner) pick up the event and start task execution (e.g., breaking down into stories).

✅ Seamless event-driven handoff ensures parallelization and autonomy in the ConnectSoft Factory.

🛡️ Human Intervention Hooks¶

Although the Business Analyst Agent is designed to work autonomously, human intervention is needed for exceptional cases.
These hooks ensure that if the agent encounters issues it cannot resolve or uncertainties in business modeling, it can escalate the situation for manual intervention.

This makes the agent more resilient, scalable, and trustworthy within a complex software development pipeline.

📋 When Human Intervention is Triggered¶

Situation	Reason for Escalation	Example
Persistent Validation Failure	If auto-correction fails after 2 full attempts.	Missing required fields in business requirements even after retries.
Semantic Drift	If requirements, rules, or processes deviate from business goals or strategic objectives.	New "feature" story added that contradicts the strategic goal of reducing no-shows.
Critical Missing Requirements	If essential business requirements are missing or incomplete.	Missing requirement for patient notification system in appointment scheduling.
Non-Compliance with Business Rules	If generated business rules fail to comply with regulatory standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).	Generated rules fail to comply with regional data privacy regulations.
Event Emission Failure	If the agent fails to emit the required events after retries.	Event emission failures for `BusinessRequirementsReady` or `BusinessRulesReady`.
Stakeholder Request for Changes	If a stakeholder requests a change that requires business clarification or additional details.	"We need to allow patients to cancel appointments" request from a business stakeholder.

🧠 Human Escalation Workflow¶

Initial Validation and Correction:
- The agent performs self-validation and attempts auto-correction.
- If corrections fail, the agent retries automatically.
Escalation to Human:
- After two correction attempts, if the issue persists, the escalation mechanism triggers.
- The agent provides full context (failed tasks, corrections attempted, logs) for human review.
Human Review:
- A business analyst or stakeholder reviews the issue.
- The solution is implemented manually (e.g., adjusting business rules, requirements, or models).
Reprocessing:
- After human intervention, the agent reprocesses the task.
- The validation and correction flows resume until the task is ready for downstream consumption.

📈 Escalation Metrics¶

Metric Name	Purpose
`business_analyst_agent_human_escalations_total`	Total number of escalations triggered to humans.
`business_analyst_agent_failed_retries_total`	Total number of retry failures before escalation.
`business_analyst_agent_successful_retries_total`	Total number of successful retries after auto-correction.
`business_analyst_agent_escalation_resolution_time`	Average time taken to resolve escalated issues.

✅ These metrics ensure transparency and audibility in the system.

🧩 ConnectSoft Platform Principles Alignment¶

Principle	Human Intervention Alignment
Resilient Execution	Automatic corrections and retries are first line of defense; human escalation only if needed.
Observability-First	Escalation actions, retries, and failures are fully logged and traced.
Event-Driven Workflow	Human intervention triggers the next task or reprocessing phase via event-based handoff.
Scalability and Flexibility	Human escalation is a controlled safety net, ensuring autonomous work without overburdening human operators.

🎯 Final Conclusion: Business Analyst Agent's Role in the ConnectSoft AI Software Factory¶

The Business Analyst Agent plays a critical role in translating high-level business goals into actionable, structured business requirements
that directly feed into the Product Planning and Development phases of the ConnectSoft Factory.

✅ It ensures that the Business Requirements, Rules, Processes, and Personas align with strategic objectives and stakeholder needs.
✅ It provides traceability from Vision to Strategic Goals to Requirements to Business Rules to Process Models.
✅ Its event-driven output activates the Product Manager and Product Owner Agents for the next phase of autonomous work.

🏛️ Business Analyst Agent Positioning in Factory Lifecycle¶

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    VisionArchitectAgent -->|VisionDocumentCreated| BusinessAnalystAgent
    BusinessAnalystAgent -->|BusinessRequirementsReady| ProductManagerAgent
    ProductManagerAgent -->|ProductPlanCreated| ProductOwnerAgent
    ProductOwnerAgent -->|BacklogReady| EventBus
    EventBus --> UXDesignerAgent
    EventBus --> EnterpriseArchitectAgent
    EventBus --> DeveloperAgents

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✅ BA Agent bridges the gap between Vision and Product Planning,
and it ensures that the entire Factory works on solid business foundations.

📚 References and Cross-Links¶