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Vancouver Chapter Study Group

• BABOK® Chapter 1 – Introduction

Jorge Vega

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Study Group Sessions • About me

• Format – BABOK 2.0

– Frequency

– Type of sessions

– Prep work required

• Professional Development Units

• Expanding group sessions

• Certification requirements

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How prepared are you?

• POP QUIZ!

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Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 What is BABOK?

1.2 What is Business Analysis?

1.3 Key Concepts

1.4 Knowledge Areas

1.5 Tasks

1.6 Techniques

1.7 Underlying Competencies

1.8 Other Sources of BA Information

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1.1 A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)

• Globally recognized standard for the practice of

business analysis.

• Describes business analysis areas of knowledge, their

associated activities and tasks, and the skills

necessary to be effective in their execution.

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1.2 Business Analysis • The set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among

stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations

of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the

organization to achieve its goals.

• Understanding how organizations function.

• Defining organizational goals and how to achieve these goals.

• Understanding current state of an organization to define business needs.

• Defining/validating solutions to meet business goals and objectives.

• A Business Analyst is any person who performs BA tasks as described in

BABOK, regardless of title.

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1.3 Key Concepts

• Domain – area undergoing analysis

• Not necessarily bound by organization or department

boundaries

• Solution – set of changes to the current state made so

an organization can meet a business need, solve a

problem, or take advantage of an opportunity

• Optimal solution within given constraints (not perfect solution)

• Solution often involves IT, but not always

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1.3 Key Concepts – Requirement

1. A condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to

solve a problem or achieve an objective.

2. A condition or capability that must be met or

possessed by a solution or solution component to

satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other

formally imposed documents.

3. A documented representation of a condition or

capability as in (1) or (2).

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1.3 Key Concepts – Requirements

• Business Requirements (Enterprise Analysis)

• Stakeholder Requirements (Req. Analysis)

• Solution Requirements (Req. Analysis)

• Functional Requirements

• Non-functional Requirements

• Transition Requirements (Solution Assessment & Validation)

• Mnemonic BSFNT (“bus font” or “Buy Some New Treats”

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1.4 Knowledge Areas • Mnemonic = PEACEUS

(different spelling for “pieces”)

• BA Planning and Monitoring

• Elicitation

• Requirements Analysis

• Requirements Management and Communication

• Enterprise Analysis

• Underlying Competencies

• Solution Assessment and Validation

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1.5 Tasks • Purpose

• Description

– A task is an essential piece of work that must be performed as part of business

analysis. Each task should be performed at least once during the vast majority of

business analysis initiatives, but there is no upper limit to the number of times any

task may be performed.

–A task has the following characteristics:

•A task accomplishes a result in an output that creates value to the sponsoring organization—that is, if

a task is performed it should produce some demonstrable positive outcome which is useful, specific,

visible and measurable.

•A task is complete—in principle, successor tasks that make use of outputs should be able to be

performed by a different person or group.

•A task is a necessary part of the purpose of the Knowledge Area with which it is associated.

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1.5 Tasks

• Input

• Requirements

• Elements

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1.5 Tasks

• Stakeholders

• Output

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1.6 Techniques

• Purpose

• Description

• Elements

• Usage Consideration

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1.7 Underlying Competencies

• Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Behavioural Characteristics

• Business Knowledge

• Communication Skills

• Interaction Skills

• Software Applications

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1.8 Other Sources of Business Analysis Info

• List of sources BABOK draws from

• E.g., Agile Development, BPM, Enterprise Architecture,

ITIL, Project Management

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Study Guides recommended by Jorge

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Quiz &

Discussion