What are the 6 knowledge areas of BABOK?
- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
- Elicitation and Collaboration
- Requirements Life Cycle Management
- Strategy Analysis
- Requirements Analysis and Design Definition (RADD)
- Solution Evaluation
BABOK
Business Analysis Body of Knowledge
What is Business Analysis?
Business analysis is the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
What does business analysis enable?
Business analysis enables an enterprise to articulate needs and the rationale for change, and to design and describe solutions that can deliver value.
How is business analysis performed?
- Business analysis is performed on a variety of initiatives within an enterprise. Initiatives may be strategic, tactical, or operational.
- Business analysis may be performed within the boundaries of a project or throughout enterprise evolution and continuous improvement
What is business analysis used for?
It can be used to understand the current state, to define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current to the future state.
What are the perspectives from which business analysis can be performed?
- Agile
- Business intelligence
- Information technology
- Business architecture
- Business process management.
A perspective can be thought of as a lens through which the business analysis practitioner views their work activities based on the current context.
Who is a Business Analyst?
A business analyst is any person who performs business analysis tasks described in the BABOK® Guide, no matter their job title or organizational role.
Activities performed by a business analyst?
The activities that business analysts perform include:
• understanding enterprise problems and goals,
• analyzing needs and solutions,
• devising strategies,
• driving change, and
• facilitating stakeholder collaboration
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
- Describes the tasks that business analysts perform to organize and coordinate the efforts of business analysts and stakeholders
- These tasks produce outputs that are used as key inputs and guidelines for the other tasks throughout the
BABOK® Guide
Elicitation and Collaboration
- Describes the tasks that business analysts
perform to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results obtained. - Describes the communication with stakeholders
once the business analysis information is assembled and the ongoing collaboration with them throughout the business analysis activities
Requirements Life Cycle Management
- Describes the tasks that business analysts perform in order to manage and maintain requirements and design
information from inception to retirement - These tasks describe establishing meaningful relationships between related requirements and designs, and assessing, analyzing and gaining consensus on proposed changes to requirements and designs.
Strategy Analysis
Describes the business analysis work that must be
performed to collaborate with stakeholders 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.
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
Describes the tasks that business analysts perform to
- Structure and organize requirements discovered during elicitation activities
- Specify and model requirements and designs
- Validate and verify information
- Identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option
Solution Evaluation
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.
