Chap 3: Business Analysis, Planning, and Monitoring Flashcards
describes the planning of business analysis work from creation or selection of a methodology to planning the individual activities, tasks, and deliverables.
BA planning & monitoring
Plan Business Analysis Approach
describes understanding which stakeholders are relevant to the change, what business analyst need from them, what they need for BA’s, and the best way to collaborate.
BA planning & monitoring
Plan Stakeholder Engagement
defines the components of business
analysis that are used to support the governance function of the organization. It helps ensure that decisions are made properly and consistently, and follows a process that ensures decision makers have the information they need. Examples of this include requirements management, business analysis risk management, and allocation of business analysis resources.
BA planning & monitoring
Plan Business Analysis Governance
defines how information developed by business analysts (including requirements and designs) is captured, stored, and integrated with other information for long-term use.
BA planning & monitoring
Plan Business Analysis Information Management
describes managing and monitoring how business analysis work is performed to ensure that commitments are met and continuous learning and improvement opportunities are realized.
BA planning & monitoring
Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
Core Concept: Change - the act of transformation in response to a need
are responsible for determining how changes to business analysis results will be requested and authorized
Core Concept: Need - a problem or opportunity to be addressed
choose a business analysis approach that provides adequate analysis for the change
Core Concept: Solution - a specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context
evaluate if business analysis performance was a key contributor to the successful needs and account for stakeholder characteristics
Core Concept: Value - the worth, importance, or usefulness of something to a stakeholder within a context.
conduct performance analysis to ensure business analysis activities continue to produce sufficient value for the stakeholders
Core Concept: Context - the circumstances that influence, are influenced by, and provide understanding of the change
ensure a complete understanding of the context under analysis in order to develop an efficient business analysis approach.
Core Concept: Stakeholder - a group or individual with a relationship to the change, the need, or the solution.
Perform a stakeholder analysis to ensure planning and monitoring activities reflect stakeholder needs and account for stakeholder characteristics
used to identify possible business analysis activities,
techniques, risks and other relevant items to help build the business analysis
approach.
Techniques
Brainstorming
used to understand whether elements of the problem or
opportunity are especially time-sensitive, high-value, or whether there is any particular uncertainty around elements of the possible need or solution.
Techniques
Business Cases
used to review existing organizational assets that might assist in planning the approach
Techniques
Documentation Analysis
used to determine how long it may take to perform business analysis activities
Techniques
Estimation
used to access how different approaches (and supported delivery options) affect the value delivered.
Techniques
Financial Analysis
used to break down complex business analysis processes or approaches into more feasible components.
Techniques
Functional decomposition
used to help build the plan with an individual or small group
Techniques
Interviews
used to track any issues raised during planning activities with stakeholders. Can also track risk related items raised during discussions when building the approach.
Techniques
Item tracking
used to identify an enterprise’s previous experience (both
successes and challenges) with planning business analysis approach.
Techniques
Lessons learned
used to define and document the business analysis approach
Techniques
Process modeling
used to validate the selected business analysis approach with stakeholders
Techniques
Reviews
used to assess risks in order to select the proper business analysis approach
Techniques
Risk analysis and management
used to determine the boundaries of the solution as an
input to planning and to estimating.
Techniques
Scope modeling
used to identify possible business analysis activities,
techniques, risks and other relevant items to help build the business analysis approach.
Techniques
Survey or questionaire
used to help build the plan in a team setting
Techniques
Workshops
