BABOK Guide v8 Study Notes CBAP V3 Study Notes Chapter 1: Introduction (page 1) 1.1 Purpose of the BABOK Guide (page 1) + Define the profession of business analysis and provide a set of commonly accepted practices + Helps practitioners discuss and define the skills necessary to effectively perform business analysis work + Understand the skills and knowledge they should expect from a skilled practitioner + Common framework for all perspectives, describing business analysis tasks that are performed to properly analyze a change or evaluate the necessity for a change * “The six knowledge areas of the BABOK™ Guide describe the practice of business analysis as It is applied within the boundaries of a project or throughout enterprise evolution and continuous improvement The following image shows how three af the knowledge areas support the delivery of business value before, during, and after the lite cycle of a project, Figure 1.1.1: Business Analysis Beyond Projects oy ayy rey Pos So Red 1.2 What is Business Analysis? (page 2) + Business analysis is the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. + Business analysis enables an enterprise to articulate needs and the rationale for change, and to design and describe solutions that can deliver value. + Initiatives may be strategic, tactical, or operational. + Itcan 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 Page 1 of 10)BABOK Guide v2 Study Notes 1.3 Who is a Business Analyst? (page 2) * Abusiness analyst is any person who performs business analysis tasks described in the BABOK Guide, no matter their jab title or organizational role. (business architect, business system analyst, data analyst, enterprise analyst, management consultant, system analyst...) + Business analysts are responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information fram a variety of sources within an enterprise, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders. + The business analyst is responsible for eliciting the actual needs of stakeholders—which frequently involves investigating and clarifying their expressed desires—in order to determine underlying issues and causes, * Business analysts play a role in aligning the designed and delivered solutions with the needs of stakeholders. ‘The activities thal business analysts perform include: ~ understanding enterprise problems and goals, ~ analyzing needs and solutions, = devising strategies, = driving change, and ~ facilitating stakeholder collaboration 1.4 Structure of the BABOK Guide (page 3) The core content of the BABOK"” Guide is composed of business analysis tasks organized into knowledge areas. Knowledge areas are a collection of lagically (but not sequentially) related tasks. The Business Analysis Key Concepts, Underlying Competencies, Techniques, and Perspectives sections form the extended content in the BABOK Guide. + Business Analysis Key Concepts: define the key terms needed to understand all other content, concepts, and ideas within the BABOK Guide, + Underlying Competencies: provide a description of the behaviours, characteristics, knowledge, and personal qualities that support the effective practice of business analysis, + Techniques: provide a means to perform business analysis tasks. + Perspectives: describe various views of business analysis. Perspectives help business analysts working from various points of view to better perform business analysis tasks, given the context of the initiative, 1.4.1 Key Concepts (page 4) + Basic understanding of the central ideas necessary for understanding the BABOK Guide. This chapter consists of: Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM) Key Terms ~ Requirements Classification Schema Stakeholders saifureahman62@ gmail.com Page 2 of 107BABOK Guide va Study Notes ~ Requirements and Design 1.4.2 Knowledge Areas (page 4) Knowledge areas represent areas of specific business analysis expertise that encompass ‘several tasks. Each knowledge area includes a visual representation of its inputs and outputs, The six knowledge areas are: + Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring: describes the tasks that business analysts perform to organize and coordinate the efforts of business analysts and stakeholders, + Elicitation and Collaboration: describes the tasks that business analysts perform to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and contirm the resulls ablained along with the communication and ongaing collabaration with the stakeholders, + 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. + Strategy Analysis: describes the business analysis work that must be performed ta collaborate with stakeholders in order ta 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, specity and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identity solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option. + Solution Evaluation: describes the tasks thal business analysts perform to assess the performance af 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. Figure 1.4.1: Relationships Between Knowledge Areas Business Analysis ra eer Requirements poe Pea Se td See eee Ceara) ore Eo 23 of 107 saltureahman62@ gmail.comBABOK Guide v2 Study Notes 1.4.3 Tasks (page 5) task is a discrete piece of work that may be performed formally or informally as part of ‘business analysis. Tasks are grouped into knowledge areas. Business analysts perform tasks ‘rom all knowledge areas sequentially, iteratively, or simultaneously; in any order as long as the necessary inputs are present. Each task in the BABOK Guide is presented in the following format: Purpose - Description « Inputs - Elements - Guidelines/Tools - Techniques - Stakeholders - Outputs 1.4.4 Underlying Competencies (page 7) Underlying competencies reflect knowledge, skills, behaviours, characteristics, and personal qualities that help one successfully perform the role of the business analyst. Underlying competencies have the following structure Purpose - Definition - Effective Measures 1.4.5 Techniques (page 8) ‘Techniques provide additional information on ways that a task may be performed. Techniques have the following structure: Purpose - Description - Elements - Usage Considerations 1.4.6 Perspectives (page 9) Perspective’s are used within business analysis work to provide focus to tasks and techniques ‘specific to the context of the initiative. Most initiatives are likely to engage one or more perspectives, The perspectives included in the BABOK Guide are: + Agile * Business Intelligence Information Technology + Business Architecture + Business Process Management Perspectives have the following structure: ‘Change Scope - Business Analysis Scope - Methodologies, Approaches, and Techniques - Underlying Competencies - Impact on Knowledge Areas saltureahman62@ gmail.com Page 4.ol 107BABOK Guide v2 Study Notes Chapter 2: Business Analysis Key Concepts (page 11) ‘The Business Analysis Key Concepts chapter includes information that provides a foundation for al ‘other content, concepts, and ideas within the BABOK Guide. It provides business analysts with a ‘basic understanding of the central ideas necessary for understanding and employing the BABOK Guide in their daily practice of business analysis. ‘This chapter consists of: + Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM) * Key Terms + Requirements Classification Schema + Stakeholders. + Requirements and Design 2.1 Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM) {page 12) + Defines a conceptual framework for the business analysis profession. * The six core concepts in the BACCM are: Change, Need, Solution, Stakeholder, Value, and Context, + Each core concep! is defined by the other five core concepts and cannot be fully understood until all the concepts are understoad. + These concepts are instrumental to understanding the type of information elicited, analyzed, or managed in business analysis tasks. ‘The BAGCM can be used to: ~ describe the profession and domain of business analysis, - communicate abaut business analysis with a common terminology, = evaluate the relationships of key concepts in business analysis, ~ perlarm better business analysis by evaluating the relationships among these six concepts, ~ evaluate the impact of these concepts and relationships at any point during a work effort Table 2.1.1: The BACCM Core Concept Description Change The act of transformation in response to a need, Change works to improve the performance of an enterprise. ‘These improvements are deliberate and controlled through business analysis activities Need ‘Aprobiem or opportunity te be addressed. Needs can cause changes by motivating stakeholders to act. ‘Changes can also cause needs by eroding or enhancing the value delivered by existing solutions, Solution ‘Acspecific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context ‘A solution satisfies a need by resolving a problem faced by stakeholders or enabling stakeholders to take advantage of an opportunity. sallureahman62@ gmaileom