KA Task Definitions Flashcards
Plan BA Approach
Define an appropriate method to conduct BA activities
Plan Stakeholder Engagement
Plan an approach for establishing and maintaining working relationships with the stakeholders.
Plan BA Governance
To define how decisions are made about requirements and designs, including reviews, change control, approvals, and prioritization.
Plan BA Analysis Information Management
develop an approach for how business analysis information will be stored and accessed.
Identify BA Performance Improvements
assess business analysis work and to plan to improve processes where required.
Prepare for Elicitation
understand the scope of the elicitation activity, select appropriate techniques, and plan appropriate supporting materials and resources.
Conduct Elicitation
draw out, explore, and identify information relevant to the change.
Confirm Elicitation Results
check the information gathered during an elicitation session for accuracy and consistency with other information.
Communicate BA Information
to ensure stakeholders have a shared understanding of BA information.
Manage Stakeholder Collaboration
encourage stakeholders to work towards a common goal.
Trace Requirements
ensure that requirements and designs at different levels are aligned to one another, and to manage the effects of change to one level on related requirements.
Maintain Requirements
retain requirements accuracy and consistency throughout and beyond the change during the entire requirements life cycle, and to support reuse of requirements in other solutions.
Prioritize Requirements
rank requirements in the order of relative importance.
Assess Requirements Changes
evaluate the implications of proposed changes to requirements and designs.
Approve Requirements
obtain agreement on an approval of requirements and designs for business analysis work to continue and/or solution construction process.
Analyze Current State
understand the reasons why an enterprise needs to change some aspect of how it operates and what would be directly or indirectly affected by the change.
Define Future State
determine the set of necessary conditions to meet the business need.
Assess Risks
understand the undesirable consequences of internal and external forces on the enterprise during a transition to, or once in, the future state. An understanding of the potential impact of those forces can be used to make a recommendation about a course of action.
Define Change Strategy
develop and assess alternative approaches to the change, and then select the recommended approach.
Specify and Model Requirements
analyze, synthesize, and refine elicitation results into requirements and design.
Verify Requirements
ensure that requirements and designs specifications and models meet quality standards and are usable for the purpose they serve.
Validate Requirements
ensure that all requirements and designs align to the business requirements and support the delivery of needed value.
Define Requirements Architecture
ensure that requirements collectively support one another to fully achieve the objectives.
Define Design Options
define the solution approach, identify opportunities to improve the business, allocate requirements across solution components, and represent design options that achieve the desired future state.
Analyze Potential Value and Recommend Solution
estimate the potential value for each design option and to establish which one is most appropriate to meet the enterprise’s requirements.
Measure Solution Performance
define performance measures and use the data collected to evaluate the effectiveness of a solution in relation to the value it brings.
Analyze Performance Measures
provide insights into the performance of a solution in relation to the value it brings.
Assess Solution Limitations
determine the factors internal to the solution that restrict the full realization of value.
Assess Enterprise Limitations
determine how factors external to the solution are restricting value realization.
Recommend Actions to Increase Solution Value
understand the factors that create differences between potential value and actual value, and to recommend a course of action to align them.
