Customer Discovery Homemade Cards Flashcards
What hard skills does a BA need?
- Business analysis
- Eliciting requirements
- Writing business cases
- Writing & reviewing requirements
- Creating flows & diagrams
- Wireframing
- Data analytics
- Problem-solving
What must be included when writing a business case?
The what, why, how, and who of the project to provide reasoning for initiating the project.
What are the BA’s activities surrounding elicitation?
- Requirements gathering via workshops, interviews, observation, or brainstorming sessions
- Documenting findings to present to project stakeholders
- Analysis of requirements by examining the current state of the solution, reviewing pain points reported by end users, and drafting ideas for the future state
What are the BA’s activities surrounding pain points and testing?
- Find solutions for challenges, addressing risks, finding areas for improvement, and gathering additional requests from end users.
- Facilitate in UAT through planning, designing use cases, identifying testers, and obtaining sign-off post-testing.
What are the BA’s activities surrounding project delivery?
- Monitor delivery to ensure it’s on track with the timeline and fulfills criteria. Gather end user feedback and translate new requests into new user stories.
- Communicate with stakeholders on requirements and expected deliverables, discuss user stories with dev team, and elicit feedback from end users.
What are the 4 phases of the Implementation Lifecycle?
Analyze, Build, Delivery, Operate
What is the BA’s role in the Analyze Phase of the Implementation Lifecycle?
- Managing requirements (collaborate w/stakeholders, define objectives, develop requirements list to project completion)
- Obtain project sign-off from stakeholders (analyze current state, develop proposal for future state, define scope, present findings, gain approval)
What is the BA’s role in the Build Phase of the Implementation Lifecycle?
- Ensure clarity of user stories and their resulting in building solutions addressing project requirements.
- Facilitate UAT by selecting testers, writing test cases, ensuring bugs are solved, and obtaining sign-off.
What is the BA’s role in the Delivery Phase of the Implementation Lifecycle?
- Solving issues, resolve uncertainties, meeting facilitation b/w dev and users
- Controlling the scope to keep track of changes and new requirements added to the backlog. Ensuring mods don’t negatively impact timelines or deliverables.
What is the BA’s role in the Operate Phase of the Implementation Lifecycle?
- Present the solution to the client via review sessions and demonstration. establish success measures and gather lessons learned after work completion.
- Training end users and gathering feedback. Monitoring progress and create training materials. Gather user feedback to intro further improvements to project.
What are Drucker’s 5 Most Important Questions?
- What is our purpose?
- Who are our customers?
- What do our customers value?
- What are results?
- What is our plan?
What are the 4 steps for customer-centric info gathering?
- Get to know the customer (research them and their industry)
- Be the customer (slip into their role/company, be relatable)
- Establish a connection with the customer (share insights, show empathy, ask open-ended questions)
- Develop a timetable with the customer (develop strategy, interpret vision via storyboarding, make initial rec’s/next steps, develop roadmap)
What is the term used to describe the defined boundaries, objectives, deliverables, and constraints of a specific project?
Project scope
What does ITTO stand for?
Inputs, tools & techniques, outputs.
What are some examples of inputs for the ITTO diagram?
Resources, documents, info required to initiate or perform a process:
- Project charter (high-level description of objectives)
- Stakeholder register (list of all stakeholders and their roles)
- Requirements docs (detailed overview of req’s and deliverables)
What are some examples of tools & techniques for the ITTO diagram?
Methods, techniques, or mechanisms used to execute the process:
- Expert knowledge (SMEs to define the scope)
- Facilitated workshops (collab with stakeholders to gather scope info)
- Stakeholder interviews (engage with stakeholders to gather expectations)
What are some examples of outputs for the ITTO diagram?
Results or deliverables produced as a result of performing the process:
- Project Scope Statement (defines scope, deliverables, boundaries, constraints)
- Project Documents Updates (updates to various project docs based on defined scope)
What is the process of defining the focus of the problem to be solved?
Challenge Framing
What is the process of creating a plan that includes organizing and managing the time, people, and other resources required to solve the framed challenge?
Challenge Scoping
What are the components of challenge scoping?
- What work will be done
- How the work will be completed and by whom
- What the expected outcomes are
What is the structure of a “How might we” statement?
“How might we (do what) for (whom) in order to (benefit, gain, or result that the company wants to achieve)?”
focuses on the desired outcome and is precise
The act of giving up one thing in return for another.
Trade-off
A group of tasks and activities to be completed by a team of assembled workgroups.
Work streams
The process of generating ideas around specific aspects of the larger design challenge.
Ideation
The existing condition of a process at a specific point in time.
Current State
What are 3 methods for documenting the current state?
- Data Analysis related to the process (performance metrics, customer feedback, survey responses, etc)
- Artifacts from past similar projects (leveraging lessons learned)
- Value Analysis of each step in the current process (helps identify activities that contribute to desired outcomes)
The process of getting to know more about the customers.
Customer Discovery
What are the methods used in Customer Discovery?
- Interviews
- Shadowing
- Embodying
- Journey Mapping