What Is Business Analysis? Flashcards
The potential range of the business analyst role can span across three areas. Name them
Strategic analysis and definition
Business analysis
IT systems analysis
Realising Business Benefits
Ensuring that changes are assessed in terms of the impact upon the business case and, at a later point, supporting the assessment of whether or not predicted business benefits have been realised.
The POPIT model stands for…
Processes Organisation People Information Technology
The agile manifesto values … over processes and tools
Individuals and interactions
The agile manifesto values … over comprehensive documentation
Working software
The agile manifesto values … over contract negotiation
Customer collaboration
The agile manifesto values … over following a plan
Responding to change
The agile manifesto values individuals and interactions over …
Processes and tools
The agile manifesto values working software over …
Comprehensive documentation
The agile manifesto values customer collaboration over …
Contract negotiation
The agile manifesto values responding to change over …
Following a plan
What are the three levels of maturity on the Business Analysis Maturity Model
System improvement
Process improvement
Business improvement
Name the two axis on the business analysis maturity model
Scope and authority
Name the five levels of the capability maturity model integration
- Initial
- Managed
- Defined
- Qualitatively managed
- Optimising
Name Porter’s Five Forces
- Threat of new entrants
- Threat of substitute products or services
- Bargaining power of suppliers
- Bargaining power of buyers
- Industry competitors - rivalry amongst existing firms
Names some weaknesses of Porter’s five forces model
Government is not treated as the sixth force. It is played through each of the five forces.
It’s difficult to apply to not for profit organisations.
What are PESTLE and Porters Five Forces used for?
External environment analysis
External environment creates …
Opportunities and threats
What is the MOST analysis technique used for?
To understand the current business positioning
What is the Resource Audit used for?
It can help to identify core competencies or may highlight where there is a lack of competences.
Three generalised investigation techniques
Surveys
Observation
Workshops
Three detailed investigation techniques
Document analysis
Scenario analysis
Prototyping
Gap Analysis
Understanding where we want to be and by looking where we are now, identify what needs to change to take us there
