Creating a Solid Base for Business Analysis
Distinguishing between typical BA projects
Agile
Business intelligence
Information technology
Business architecture
Business process
Determining the role and focus of BA based on project type
Identifying underlying competencies
Recognising behavioural and thinking paradigms
Highlighting communication and interaction skills
Describing key concepts
Establishing the vocabulary
BACCM
Stakeholders
Requirements
Designs
Strategy Analysis
Researching the business organisation in context to new change
Performing situational state analysis: current vs. future
Listing the business drivers and the problem/opportunity
Understanding analytical methodologies and approaches
Defining and analysing potential adverse events
Carrying out an enterprise readiness assessment
SWOT
KPIs
Functional decomposition
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
Choosing a BA approach and establishing governance
Predictive vs. adaptive
Level of formality
Timing
Documenting and communicating requirements changes
Understanding the community of stakeholders
Conducting a stakeholder analysis
Communicating: details, frequency, modality
Personas
Rules analysis
Organisational modeling
Elicitation and Collaboration
Preparing and conducting elicitation sessions
Developing an elicitation activity plan
Collaboration
Research
Experiments
Capturing accurate and consistent information
Comparing elicitation results to sources
Ensuring a shared understanding of information
Brainstorming
Interviews
Stakeholder maps
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
Specifying and modelling requirements and designs
Creating matrices and diagrams
Collecting and representing attributes
Implementing appropriate levels of abstraction
Process modelling
Sequence diagrams
State modelling
Structuring and organising requirements and designs
Illustrating flows of inputs, information, and outputs
Checking for correctness and completeness
Evaluating against solution scope
Verifying and validating specified and modelled requirements
Use cases
Data flow diagrams
Non-functional analysis
Requirements Life Cycle Management
Defining types and deriving relationships
Finding relationships between requirements
Choosing prioritisation criteria and requirements states
Approving requirements and designs
Managing conflicts and issues
Gaining consensus and communicating approval
Item tracking
Workshops
Acceptance and evaluation criteria
Solution Evaluation
Determining if what was specified solves the business problem
Recording and applying solution performance measurements
Identifying and analysing limitations in the solution and the enterprise
Recommending alternatives and actions to increase value
Listing and understanding external and internal factors
Considering solution replacement or retirement
Decision analysis
Organisational modelling
Risk analysis
Taking Your Next Step
Preparing to take a certification exam
Evaluating where you are
Considering Courses 3516 and 3517
