a problem or opportunity of strategic or tactical importance to be addressed.
What is Business Need?
100
a usable representation of a need.
What is a Requirement?
100
a specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context.
What is a Solution?
100
the ability to change techniques, style, methods, and approach.
What is Adaptability?
100
identifies areas of uncertainty that could negatively affect value, analyzes and evaluates those uncertainties, and develops and manages ways of dealing with the risks.
What is Risk Analysis and Management?
200
a description of the chosen approach to apply the capabilities of an enterprise in order to reach a desired set of goals or objectives.
What is Strategy?
200
ensures that a set of requirements or designs has been developed in enough detail to be usable by a particular stakeholder, is internally consistent, and is of high quality. [task]
What is Verify Requirements?
200
describes the tasks that business analysts perform to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal of barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
What is Solution Evaluation?
200
the ability to understand business needs using experience and knowledge obtained from other situations.
What is Business Acumen?
200
a simple yet effective tool used to evaluate an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to both internal and external conditions.
What is SWOT Analysis?
300
the business analysis work that must be performed in order to identify a need of strategic or tactical importance (the business need), enable the enterprise to address that need, and align the resulting strategy for the change with higher and lower-level strategies.
What is Strategy Analysis?
300
ensures that a set of requirements or designs delivers business value and supports the organization's goals and objectives. [task]
What is Validate Requirements?
300
investigates issues within the scope of a solution that may prevent it from meeting current business needs. [task]
What is Assess Solution Limitations?
300
the skill of moderating discussions within a group in order to enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion, and to ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differing points of view that are articulated.
What is Facilitation?
300
used to capture and assign responsibility for issues and stakeholder concerns that pose an impact to the solution.
What is Item Tracking?
400
performing a gap analysis between current and future state, assessing options for achieving the future state, and recommending the highest value approach for reaching the future state including any transition states that may be required along the way.[task]
What is Define Change Strategy?
400
a representation and simplification of reality developed to convey information to a specific audience to support analysis, communication, and understanding.
What is a Model?
400
measures which are numerical, countable, or finite; usually involving amount, quantities, or rates.
What are Quantitative Measures?
400
suggests that a system as a whole has properties, behaviors, and characteristics that emerge from the interaction of the components of that system.
What is Systems Thinking? (or Systems Theory)
400
describing the entities, classes or data objects relevant to a domain, the attributes that are used to describe them, and the relationships among them to provide a common set of semantics for analysis and implementation.
What is Data Modeling?
500
the set of capabilities a solution must deliver in order to meet the business need.
What is Solution Scope?
500
structures all requirements and designs so that they support the overall business purpose for a change and that they work effectively as a cohesive whole. [task]
What is Define Requirements Architecture?
500
identifies and defines actions the enterprise can take to increase the value that can be delivered by a solution. [task]
What is Recommend Actions to Increase Solution Value?
500
involves motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
What is Leadership and Influencing?
500
used to elicit and validate stakeholder needs through an iterative process that creates a model or design of requirements. It is also used to optimize user experience, to evaluate design options, and as a basis for development of the final business solution.