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Business Analysis Overview Flashcards

1
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What changes cause BA projects

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Process or System updates

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What is the risk of lacking to analyze updates carefully?

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Time & Effort

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What is the role of the business analyst

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That the needs of the business and its stakeholders are well understood and design solutions that meet those needs.

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What is Business Analysis

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A set of practices used to analyze a business, unit, or process to take advantage of opportunities or solve business problems.

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What three things are involved in business analysis

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People, processes, and technology

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What three things does the business analyst do

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Stakeholder analysis, analyzes data related to errors, and documents the process

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Why does the business analyst interview stakeholders?

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To determine goals, objectives and rules all to understand the real problem

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What two types of documentation do business analysts use?

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Document business rules and workflows

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Key factor in BU role

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To understand that the rules and workflows from the business are both correct and well understood to revel the resulting requirements

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What helps to achieve this?

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Prototypes of screen flows and decision matrices

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What final thing will the business analyst do?

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Document change to stakeholders and determine training needed to be successful

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Under what contexts can you apply business analysis?

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Enterprise initiatives and projects, continuous improvements to solution. (Strategic initiatives)

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What does the business analyst look at first to determine optimal changes?

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Current environment, processes, and technology

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What does the business analyst do after reviewing the current state?

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Write a business case providing options

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What do business cases with options include

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Cost benefit analysis, impact to stakeholders, and new processes and technology

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16
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What is a project?

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It’s a process that enables change

17
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When does a project start?

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Once a business case is approved

18
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What happens after its approved?

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The business analyst will provide more detail in the form of requirements.

19
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What is an important requirement of the requirements?

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What they are clear enough to implement the change

20
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How does continuous improvement work?

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It works based on feedback loops

21
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What do agile projects require?

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Constant changes requiring the business analyst to be flexible and modify how they approach their BA tasks.

22
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How are changes implemented in Agile?

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Under small iterations

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How does an Agile environment change the BAs experience with the Product Owner role?

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They may have to act as the product owner requesting the change, or liaison with the product owner in order to deliver incrementally

24
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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?

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Conducting elicitation tasks

25
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What are the 5 activities of the business analyst?

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Analyzing needs, analyze solutions, facilitating change

26
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What is analyzing needs?

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When the received from the business is analyzed against the desired state, outcome, or goal

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What if the need doesn’t contribute to the goal?

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The business analyst will advice that they need is out of scope

28
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What is analyst solutions?

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Simply analyses that information and looks for a solution

29
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Overall how can business analysis add value to an organization

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Through improved project management by finding solutions and ensure expectations are set to reality

30
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How do you properly manage a project scope

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Business analyst gets early buy in from all stakeholders about the scope and ensures the scope doesn’t expand

31
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What important point does a Business Analyst do at the end of the project?

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Facilitates transition to production by improved corporation, through training and communication to prepare the organization

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