Business Analysis Overview Flashcards
What changes cause BA projects
Process or System updates
What is the risk of lacking to analyze updates carefully?
Time & Effort
What is the role of the business analyst
That the needs of the business and its stakeholders are well understood and design solutions that meet those needs.
What is Business Analysis
A set of practices used to analyze a business, unit, or process to take advantage of opportunities or solve business problems.
What three things are involved in business analysis
People, processes, and technology
What three things does the business analyst do
Stakeholder analysis, analyzes data related to errors, and documents the process
Why does the business analyst interview stakeholders?
To determine goals, objectives and rules all to understand the real problem
What two types of documentation do business analysts use?
Document business rules and workflows
Key factor in BU role
To understand that the rules and workflows from the business are both correct and well understood to revel the resulting requirements
What helps to achieve this?
Prototypes of screen flows and decision matrices
What final thing will the business analyst do?
Document change to stakeholders and determine training needed to be successful
Under what contexts can you apply business analysis?
Enterprise initiatives and projects, continuous improvements to solution. (Strategic initiatives)
What does the business analyst look at first to determine optimal changes?
Current environment, processes, and technology
What does the business analyst do after reviewing the current state?
Write a business case providing options
What do business cases with options include
Cost benefit analysis, impact to stakeholders, and new processes and technology
What is a project?
It’s a process that enables change
When does a project start?
Once a business case is approved
What happens after its approved?
The business analyst will provide more detail in the form of requirements.
What is an important requirement of the requirements?
What they are clear enough to implement the change
How does continuous improvement work?
It works based on feedback loops
What do agile projects require?
Constant changes requiring the business analyst to be flexible and modify how they approach their BA tasks.
How are changes implemented in Agile?
Under small iterations
How does an Agile environment change the BAs experience with the Product Owner role?
They may have to act as the product owner requesting the change, or liaison with the product owner in order to deliver incrementally
When working with business to understand their needs for changes to processes, how data is collected, or how technology needs to work, to get the job done, what are you doing?
Conducting elicitation tasks
What are the 5 activities of the business analyst?
Analyzing needs, analyze solutions, facilitating change
What is analyzing needs?
When the received from the business is analyzed against the desired state, outcome, or goal
What if the need doesn’t contribute to the goal?
The business analyst will advice that they need is out of scope
What is analyst solutions?
Simply analyses that information and looks for a solution
Overall how can business analysis add value to an organization
Through improved project management by finding solutions and ensure expectations are set to reality
How do you properly manage a project scope
Business analyst gets early buy in from all stakeholders about the scope and ensures the scope doesn’t expand
What important point does a Business Analyst do at the end of the project?
Facilitates transition to production by improved corporation, through training and communication to prepare the organization
