UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Expert on workflow diagrams
Strong technical background
Being a strong facilitator
What are three successful BA Traits?
A condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective.
What is a requirement?
Anyone who may contribute to or have an interest in the requirements.
What is a stakeholder?
Describes the anticipated return on a project.
What is a Business Case?
Used by businesses to do work.
It is the fundamental component upon which all systems are based.
What is data?
The capabilities a solution must have in terms of
behavior and information the solution will manage
What are Solution Requirements - specifically functional Requirements?
People
Information
process
rules
What are the four basic requirement components?
The "boss" of the project, has secured funding and specific objectives for the funds.
Who is the Executive Sponsor or Project Sponsor?
Because of a problem
Eliminate costs (jobs)
Outside regulation
Align business processes
Reasons why a business decides to fund a project.
The activity or work that is done by a business.
What are processes or use cases?
Why do I want it? (Business Requirements)
What are the needs? (Stakeholder Requirements)
What do I want? (Solution Requirements)
What are the conditions?(Transition Requirements)
What is the Requirements Design Cycle?
Prevents wasted time and confusion
Prevents wasted business user time adjusting to a change
Why we document requirements using diagrams?
Responsible for managing the project and making sure that it meets its objectives.
What is the Project Manager?
A collection of projects and programs that an organization has identified and prioritized to support the strategic plans.
What is a portfolio?
A person, organization, or system with which a business area interacts.
What is an external agent?
Business Analysis Planning
Monitoring
Elicitation and Collaboration
Requirements Lifecycle Management
Strategy Analysis
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition (RADD)
What the six knowledge areas of Business Analysis (according to the BABOK)
Used by a Business Analyst to forecast the cost and
effort involved in pursuing a course of action.
What is Estimation?
Responsible for bringing together groups of people, negotiating, and gaining consensus on how a particular solution will be implemented.
Requires a strong personality and client management skills.
What are common skills for the BA and the PM?
An ongoing strategic business initiative that supports multiple related projects.
What is a program?
A condition that governs the way work is done and needs to be very specific and well written.
What is a business rule?
Strong listening skill (verbal and nonverbal)
Running successful meetings
Leadership ability
Supporting Corporate Goals
What are skills required to be a successful BA?
Describes almost anything that is given to someone.
It is given or presented to the stakeholder because it has some value to the stakeholder.
What is a deliverable?
A person who has a particular expertise needed on a project.
What is a Subject Matter Expert?
Asks participants to list the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
What are workflow diagrams