Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Flashcards
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area
Tasks in Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring?
- Plan Business Analysis Approach
- Plan Stakeholder Engagement
- Plan Business Analysis Governance
- Plan Business Analysis Information Management
- Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring | Change - Core Concept
Business analysts are responsible for determining how changes to business analysis results will be requested and authorized.
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring | Need - Core Concept
Business analysts choose a business analysis approach that provides adequate analysis for the change.
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring | Solution - Core Concept
Business analysts evaluate if business analysis performance was a key contributor to the successful implementation of a solution.
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring | Stakeholder - Core Concept
Business analysts perform a stakeholder analysis to ensure planning and monitoring activities reflect stakeholder needs and account for stakeholder characteristics.
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring | Value - Core Concept
Business analysts conduct performance analysis to ensure business analysis activities continue to produce sufficient value for the stakeholders.
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring | Context - Core Concept
Business analysts ensure a complete understanding of the context under analysis in order to develop an efficient business analysis approach
[Purpose] of Plan Business Analysis Approach
The purpose of Plan Business Analysis Approach is to define an appropriate method to conduct business analysis activities.
[Description] of Plan Business Analysis Approach
- Describe the overall method that will be followed when performing business analysis work on a given initiative, how and when tasks will be performed, and the deliverables that will be produced.
- The business analysis approach should:
• Align to the overall goals of the change,
• Coordinate the business analysis tasks with the activities and deliverables of the overall change,
• Include tasks to manage any risks that could reduce the quality of business analysis deliverables or impede task efficiency, and
• Leverage approaches and select techniques and tools that have historically worked well.
[Input] of Plan Business Analysis Approach – {1}
- Need
[Elements] of Plan Business Analysis Approach – {6}
- Planning Approach (Predictive and Adaptive Approach)
- Formality and Level of Detail of Business Analysis Deliverables
- Business Analysis Activities
- Timing of Business Analysis Work
- Complexity and Risk
Acceptance
[Guidelines and Tools] of Plan Business Analysis Approach – {5}
- Business Analysis Performance Assessment
- Business Policies
- Expert Judgment
- Methodologies and Frameworks
- Stakeholder Engagement Approach
[Techniques] of Plan Business Analysis Approach – {15}
- Brainstorming
- Business Cases
- Document analysis
- Estimation
- Financial Analysis
- Functional Decomposition
- Interviews
- Item Tracking
- Lessons Learned
- Process Modeling
- Reviews
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Scope Modelling
- Survey of questionnaires
- Workshops
[Stakeholders] of Plan Business Analysis Approach – {4}
- Domain Subject Matter Expert
- Project Manager
- Regulator
- Sponsor
[Output] of Plan Business Analysis Approach – {1}
Business Analysis Approach
[Purpose] of Plan Stakeholder Engagement
The purpose of Plan Stakeholder Engagement is to plan an approach for establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with the stakeholders.
[Description] of Plan Stakeholder Engagement
- Identify all of the involved stakeholders and analyze their characteristics.
- Define the best collaboration and communication approaches for the initiative and to appropriately plan for stakeholder risks.
[Input] of Plan Stakeholder Engagement – {2}
- Needs: understanding the business need and the parts of the enterprise that it affects helps in the identification of stakeholders.
- Business Analysis Approach: incorporating the overall business analysis approach into the stakeholder analysis, collaboration, and communication approaches is necessary to ensure consistency across the approaches.