Chapter 1 - Introduction Flashcards
What are the six knowledge areas of the BABOK?
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, Elicitation and Collaboration, Requirements Life Cycle Management, Strategy Analysis, Requirements Analysis and Design Definition (RADD), Solution Evaluation
What is business analysis?
Practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders
What does business analysis allow an enterprise to do?
Articulate needs and the rationale for change, and to design and describe solutions that can deliver value
What 3 types of initiatives can business analysis be performed on?
Strategic, tactical, or operational
How can business analysis be used in projects or in continuous improvement?
Understand the current state, define future state, and determine activities required to move from current to future state
What perspectives can business analysis be performed from?
Agile, business intelligence, information technology, business architecture, business process management
What is a perspective?
A lens through which the business analysis practitioner views their work activities based on the current context
Who is a business analyst?
Any person who performs business analysis tasks described in the BABOK guide
What role do business analysts play?
They align designed and delivered solutions with the needs of stakeholders
What is the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area?
Tasks that organise and co-ordinate efforts of business analysts and stakeholders. Produce outputs that are used as key inputs and guidelines.
What is the Elicitation and Collaboration knowledge area?
Tasks that prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results obtained. Communication with stakeholders once BA information is assembled and ongoing collaboration throughout BA activities.
What is the Requirements Life Cycle Management knowledge area?
Tasks that manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement. Establishing meaningful relationships between related requirements and designs, and assessing, analyzing, and gaining consensus on proposed changes to requirements and designs.
What is the Strategy Analysis knowledge area?
Work performed to collaborate with stakeholders and identify a need of strategic or tactical importance (business need), enable the enterprise to address that need, and align the resulting strategy for the change with higher and lower level strategies.
What is the Requirements Analysis and Design Definition knowledge area?
Tasks to structure and organize requirements during elicitation activities, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value for each solution option. Covers the incremental and iterative activities ranging from the initial concept and exploration of the need through the transformation of those needs into a particular recommended solution.
What is the Solution Evaluation knowledge area?
Tasks to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution in use by the enterprise and to recommend the removal of barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
