1. Business Analysis Flashcards
What does Business Analysis includes?
- Identifying business needs
- Determining solutions to problems
- Systems development component
- Process improvement
- Organizational change
- Strategic planning
- Policy development
What is the role of a Business Analyst?
- Understanding what the customer needs
- Communicating requirements to the software team
- Analyze decision-making factors
What are the Key responsibilities & terminologies (Hauptaufgaben & Terminologien)?
- Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
- Enterprise Analysis
- Elicitation
- Requirements Gathering / Analysis
- Solution Assessment and Validation
- Requirements Management and Communication
What does the Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring involve?
- Conducting stakeholder analysis
- Planning business analyst activities
- Planning for business analysis communication
- Requirements Management Process
What does the Enterprise Analysis involve? What is…
…identified?
…determined?
…validated?
…defined?
..developed?
- Identifying the business need
- Determining an approach for the solution
- Validate the identified solution with the decision makers
- Defining the solution scope
- Developing the business case
What does ELICITATION involve?
- Meeting the stakeholders and walking through their business processes
- Documenting the elicitation results
- Unified Modeling Language (UML) Activity diagrams
- UML State diagrams: to document an order lifecycle or model business artifacts
- Business Process Management (BPM) diagrams
- Entity-relationship diagrams
- UML Use cases - Confirm the elicitation results
What does Requirements Analysis involve and what are the Requirement types?
- Organizing and prioritizing requirements using a business model
- Verifying requirements
Requirement types:
- Business requirements: Often stated in a business case
- Stakeholder requirements
- Functional / Solution requirements OR Capabilities
- Non functional / Quality of Service requirements
- Implementation/Transition requirements
What does the Solution Assessment & Validation involve? What is…
…ensured?
…checked?
…allocated?
…determined?
…optional?
- Ensuring that the designed solution meets the defined requirements
- Checking that the requirements are correct
- Allocating the requirements to maximize the possible business value
- Determining your customer’s organizational readiness
- Optional: Another validation round
What does the Requirements Management & Communication involve? What is…
…defined?
…managed?
…prepared?
…communicated?
- Defining the requirements and scope
- Managing requirements traceability
- Prepare the Requirements package
- Communicate the requirements
What are the various Business Analysis Techniques?
- Use case diagrams
- mind maps
- cost-benefit analysis
- workshops
- swimlane diagrams
- interviewing
- scenario analyis
- five whys
Business Analysis Techniques
SWOT
Strengths
Weaknesses
Oppertunities
Threats
Business Analysis Techniques
MOSCOW
Must
O
Should
Could
O
Would
hybris Project Delivery Framework: An Overview
What ist Feasibility Analysis and for what is ist used? Who is involved? (Investigation?)
- Used to determine whether the proposed project is viable from both, business and technical perspective
- High-level investigation of the potential solutions, costs, and time frames
- Involves: the customer, the hybris Solution Engineering and Sales or Presales team and a partner
hybris Project Delivery Framework: An Overview
Foundations phase.
Referred to as…?
Aimed at…?
What is performed?
What do you learn in the exploration phase?
- Referred to as “requirements analysis”
- Aimed at creating scope and plan for the architecture team
- Perform the initial analysis
- Learn about your customer’s site search requirements
hybris Project Delivery Framework: An Overview
What are parts of the Exploration phase? (4 Points)
What is…
…investigated?
…designed?
…used?
- document (write down) requirements
- investigate the detailed business requirements of the project
- designs an appropriate solution
- use the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMn) or UML acticity diagrams to model workflows
