Chapter 1 - Introduction Flashcards
What is business analysis?
Set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structures, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
What is BABOK?
Globally recognized standard for the practice of business analysis.
Who is a business analyst?
Any person who performs business analysis activities, no matter what their job title or organizational role may be.
What is a domain?
Area undergoing analysis that may correspond to the boundaries of an organization or organizational unit, as well as stakeholders outside those boundaries and interactions with those stakeholders.
What is a solution?
A set of changes to the current state of an organization that are made in order to enable the organization to meet a business need, solve a problem or take advantage if an opportunity.
What is a requirement?
- A condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective.
- A condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a solution or solution component to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other formally imposed documents.
- A documented representation of a condition or capability as in (1) or (2).
What is a Business Requirement?
Higher-level statements if goals, objectives, or needs of the enterprise (organization as a whole), that describes why a project has been initiated, the objectives that the project will achieve, and the metrics used to measure its success.
Developed and defined through Enterprise Analysis.
What is a Stakeholder Requirement?
Statements of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders that describes the needs that a given stakeholder has and how that stakeholder will interact with a solution.
Serves as a bridge between business requirements and various class of solution requirements.
Developed and defined through Requirements Analysis.
What is a Solution Requirement?
Characteristics of a solution that meet business requirements and stakeholder requirements.
Developed and defined through Requirements Analysis.
Divided into Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.
What is a Functional Requirement?
Describes the behavior and information that the solution will manage.
Describes the capabilities the system will be able to perform in terms if behaviors or operations-specific IT application actions or responses.
What is a Non-Functional Requirement?
Conditions that do not directly relate to the behavior or functionality of the solution, but describe environmental conditions under which the solution must remain effective or qualities that the system must have.
Also known as quality or supplementary requirements.
Requirements related to capacity, speed, security, availability and the information architecture and presentation of the user interface.
What is a Transition Requirement?
Capabilities that the solution must have in order to facilitate transition from the current state of the enterprise to a desired future state, but will not be needed once that transition is complete.
Temporary in nature. Cannot be developed until an existing and new solution are defined.
For example, data conversion, skill gaps…
Developed and defined through solution assessment and validation.
What is a Knowledge Area?
Defines what a practitioner of business analysis needs to understand and the tasks a practitioner must be able to perform.
Name the Knowledge Areas.
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Elicitation Requirements Management and Communication Enterprise Analysis Requirements Analysis Solution Assessment and Validation Underlying Competencies Underlying Competencies
What is a task?
An essential piece of work that must be performed as part of business analysis.
Should be performed at least once, but no upper limit.
Can be performed at any scale.
