Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is the purpose of the BABOK Guide?
- To define the profession of business analysis and provide a set of commonly accepted practices
- BABOK guide is a common framework for all perspectives, describing business analysis tasks that are performed to properly analyze a change or evaluate the necessity for change
BABOK stands for Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
How many knowledge areas are defined in the BABOK Guide?
- 6
- These 6 knowledge areas describe the practice of business analysis as it is applied within the boundaries of a project or throughout enterprise evolution and continuous improvement
The knowledge areas cover the practice of business analysis within projects and enterprise evolution
List the 6 knowledge areas of the BABOK Guide.
- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
- Elicitation and Collaboration
- Requirements Life Cycle Management
- Strategy Analysis
- Requirements Analysis and Design Definition (RADD)
- Solution Evaluation
These areas support the delivery of business value before, during, and after a project’s lifecycle
What is business analysis?
- The practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders
- It enables an enterprise to articulate needs and the rationale for change, and to design and describe solutions that can bring value
What types of initiatives can business analysis be performed on?
- It is performed on a variety of initiatives within an enterprise
Initiatives can be:
- Strategic
- Tactical
- Operational - Business analysis can be performed within the boundaries of a project or throughout enterprise evolution and continuous improvement
- It can be used to understand the current state, define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current to the future state
Business analysis can occur within projects or throughout enterprise evolution
What does business analysis help an enterprise articulate?
Needs and the rationale for change
What are the diverse perspectives from which business analysis can be performed?
- Agile
- Business Intelligence
- Information Technology
- Business Architecture
- Business Process Management
Not all perspectives are outlined in the BABOK Guide
Who is a business analyst?
- A person who performs business analysis tasks described in the BABOK Guide, regardless of job title or organizational role
- They are responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of sources within an enterprise, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders - frequently involves investigating and clarifying their expressed desires - in order to determine underlying causes and issues
- Business Analysts play a role in aligning the designed and delivered solutions w the needs of stakeholders.
What are some activities performed by business analysts?
- Understanding enterprise problems and goals
- Analyzing needs and solutions
- Devising strategies
- Driving change
- Facilitating stakeholder collaboration
What are some common job titles for those who perform business analysis?
- Business architect
- Business systems analyst
- Data analyst
- Enterprise analyst
- Management consultant
- Process analyst
- Product manager
- Product owner
- Requirements engineer
- Systems analyst
What is the structure of the BABOK Guide?
Composed of business analysis tasks organized into knowledge areas
What do knowledge areas in the BABOK Guide consist of?
A collection of logically related tasks
What do the tasks in the BABOK Guide accomplish?
They describe specific activities that accomplish the purpose of their associated knowledge area
What additional content does the BABOK Guide provide?
Key concepts, underlying competencies, techniques, and perspectives sections
Business Analysis Beyond Projects
LOOK AT PIC - This represents three of the knowledge areas support the delivery of business value before, during, and after the lifecycle of a project
What is a perspective?
- A perspective can be thought of as a lens through which the business analysis practitioner views their work activities based on the current context
- One or many perspectives can apply to an initiatives
- Not all perspectives are outlined in the BABOK Guide
