Intro to Business Analysis
Key Concepts
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
Elicitation and Collaboration
Requirements Life Cycle Management
100
The globally recognized standard for the practice of business analysis, which describes business analysis knowledge areas, tasks, underlying competencies, techniques and perspectives on how to approach business analysis.
What is A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)
100
A conceptual framework for business analysis which encompasses what business analysis is and what it means to those performing business analysis tasks regardless of perspective, industry, methodology, or level in the organization.
What is the Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM)
100
A quantitative assessment of a planned outcome, resource requirements, and schedule where uncertainties and unknowns are systematically factored into the assessment.
What is an Estimate
100
The iterative derivation and extraction of information from stakeholders or other sources.
What is Elicitation
100
The ability to track the relationships between sets of requirements and designs from the original stakeholder need to the actual implemented solution.
What is Traceability (Requirements Traceability)
200
The practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
What is Business Analysis
200
A group or individual with a relationship to the change, the need, or the solution.
What is a Stakeholder
200
A catalogue of the stakeholders affected by a change, business need, or proposed solution, and a description of their attributes and characteristics related to their involvement in the initiative. (Technique)
What is a Stakeholder List
200
Used to elicit business analysis information, including contextual understanding and requirements, by examining available materials that describe either the business environment or existing organizational assets.
What is Document Analysis
200
Criteria associated with requirements, products, or the delivery cycle that must be met in order to achieve stakeholder acceptance.
What is Acceptance Criteria
300
Any person who performs the tasks described in the BABOK® Guide, no matter their job title or organizational role.
What is a Business Analyst
300
A system of one or more organizations and the solutions they use to pursue a shared set of common goals.
What is an Enterprise
300
Manage complexity and reduce uncertainty by breaking down processes, systems, functional areas, or deliverables into their simpler constituent parts and allowing each part to be analyzed independently. (Technique)
What is Functional Decomposition
300
Games that encourage participants in an elicitation activity to collaborate in building a joint understanding of a problem or a solution. (Technique)
What are Collaborative Games
300
Assessing the value, urgency, and risks associated with particular requirements to ensure that analysis and/or delivery work is done on the most important ones at any given time. (Technique)
What is Prioritization
400
Perspectives thorough which a business analysis practitioner can view their work activities based on the context. (name at least 1)
What is * Agile * Business Intelligence * Information Technology * Business Architecture * Business Process Management
400
Types of requirements identified in the Requirements Classification Schema. (name at least 1)
What is * Business requirements * Stakeholder requirements * Solution requirements (Functional and Non-Functional) * Transition requirements
400
Defines how decisions are made about requirements and designs, including reviews, change control, approvals, and prioritization.
What is Business Analysis Governance
400
A way to elicit ideas and opinions about a specific product, service, or opportunity in an interactive group environment. (Technique)
What are Focus Groups
400
A description of the observable interaction between an actor (or actors) and a solution that occurs when the actor uses the system to accomplish a specific goal.
What is a Use Case
500
The 6 Knowledge Areas of the BABOK Guide which describe the practice of business analysis.
What is * Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring * Elicitation and Collaboration * Requirements Life Cycle Management * Strategy Analysis * Requirements Analysis and Design Definition * Solution Evaluation
500
The 6 components of the Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM)
What are *Change *Need *Solution *Stakeholder *Value *Context
500
Defines how information developed by business analysts (including requirements) is captured, stored, and integrated with other information for long-term use.
What is Business Analysis Information Management
500
Ensuring that stakeholders have a shared understanding of the outcomes of elicitation, that elicited information is recorded appropriately, and that the business analyst has the information sought from an elicitation activity. (Task)
What is Confirm Elicitation Results
500
Retaining requirement accuracy and consistency throughout and beyond the change during the entire requirements life cycle, and to support reuse of requirements in other solutions. (Task)
What is Maintain Requirements
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