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
- Recognizing behavioral and thinking paradigms
- Highlighting communication and interaction skills
Describing key components
- Establishing the vocabulary
- BACCM
- Stakeholders
- Requirements
- Designs
Researching the business organization 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 analyzing potential adverse events
- Carrying out an enterprise readiness assessment
- SWOT
- KPIs
- Functional decomposition
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
- Organizational modelingPredictive vs. adaptive
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
Specifying and modeling requirements and designs
- Creating matrices and diagrams
- Collecting and representing attributes
- Implementing appropriate levels of abstraction
- Process modeling
- State modeling
Structuring and organizing requirements and designs
- Illustrating flows of inputs, information, and outputs
- Checking for correctness and completeness
- Evaluating against solution scope
- Verifying and validating specified and modeled requirements
- Use cases
- Data flow diagrams
- Non-functional analysis
Defining types and deriving relationships
- Finding relationships between requirements
- Choosing prioritization criteria and requirements states
Approving requirements and designs
- Managing conflicts and issues
- Gaining consensus and communicating approval
- Item tracking
- Workshops
- Acceptance and evaluation criteria
Determining if what was specified solves the business problem
- Recording and applying solution performance measurements
- Identifying and analyzing 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
- Organizational modeling
- Risk analysis
