An Overview of Version 2.0 of
the BABOK ® Guide
Kevin Brennan
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Vision and Mission
The world's leading association for
Vision
Business Analysis professionals
Develop and maintain standards for
Mission the practice of business analysis and
for the certification of its practitioners
IIBA is an international not-for-profit
professional association for business
analysis professionals.
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IIBA Goals
Strategic Goals Operational Goals
 
 Create and develop  Ensure the long term
awareness and recognition viability of the organization
of the value and  Enable sustainable growth
contribution of the role of to support the
the Business Analysis establishment of the IIBA as
a worldwide organization
Professional
 Ensure financial viability to
 Define the Business
support the implementation
Analysis Body of
and sustainment of the IIBA
Knowledge™ (BABOK®)
operational and strategic
 Publicly recognize qualified priorities
practitioners through an
 Consistently demonstrate
internationally
value of the organization to
acknowledged certification
IIBA constituents
program
 Provide a forum for
knowledge sharing
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Why Define the BABOK®?
a shared understanding
Create
of business analysis.
 It defines the BA role
 It says what a BA needs to be able
to do
 It describes the techniques that a
BA should be able to use
 It describes the competencies that
are required to be effective
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Definition of Business Analysis
Analysis is the set of
“Business
tasks and techniques used to work
as a liaison among stakeholders in
order to understand the structure,
policies, and operations of an
organization, and recommend
solutions that enable the
organization to achieve its goals.”
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Value of Business Analysis
is about understanding:
It
 How an organization works
 Why the organization exists
 What are its goals and objectives
 How it accomplishes those objectives
 How it needs to change to better accomplish
objectives or to meet new challenges
is about meeting business needs.
It
is about ensuring investment in the
It
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Understanding Scope
Scope
Solution
 The set of capabilities required to
meet a business need
Scope
Project
 The work required to implement the
solution scope
analysis is required to
Business
define solution scope.
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Who else is involved?
Project
Regulator
Manager
Implement-
Sponsor
ation SME
Domain
Supplier
SME
Business
Customer Tester
Analyst
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Business Analysis Body of Knowledge®
Version 2
 Identifies currently
accepted practices
 Recognizes
business analysis is
not synonymous
with software
requirements
 Defined & enhanced
by the professionals
who apply it
 Captures the sum of
the knowledge
required for the
practice of business
analysis as a
profession
The set of tasks, knowledge, & techniques required to
identify business needs & determine solutions to
business problems.
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What are the major changes?
 All content is complete
 77 tasks consolidated into 32
 Applies to a wider range of methods
including Agile, BPM
 Validated by practitioners and
experts
 Surveys of BA community show that
content is “generally accepted”
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BA Planning & Monitoring
Purpose Answers the Question
Identifies tasks What do I need
& stakeholders to do?
Value
Understand who needs to be
engaged & what needs to be
done; monitor progress;
coordinate with others
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BAP&M Structure
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Elicitation
Purpose Answers the Question
Elicit req’sfrom What do
stake-holder Stakeholders
groups need?
Value
Describes the various
techniques used to elicit
requirements
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Elicitation Structure
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Req Management & Communication
Purpose Answers the Question
Communicate Does everyone
the outcome; understand &
Identify & agree?
manage change
Value
Bring stakeholders to a common
understanding; formalizes
agreement
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RM&C Structure
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Enterprise Analysis
Purpose Answers the Question
Understand the Why are we
Big Picture doing this?
Value
Provides a context and/or
foundation on which to evaluate
all future issues & challenges
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Enterprise Analysis Structure
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Requirements Analysis
Purpose Answers the Question
Analyze the What must the
data Solution do?
Value
Transforms the business need
into clearly described
capabilities
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Requirements Analysis Structure
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Solution Assessment & Validation
Purpose Answers the Question
Ensure the Does it do
best solution is what it was
chosen supposed to?
Value
Evaluate and choose among
alternatives; assess tradeoffs
and options
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SA&V Structure
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Underlying Competencies
Analytical
Behavioral Business Communication Interaction Software
Thinking and
Characteristics Knowledge Skills Skills Applications
Problem
Solving
Business
Creative Thinking
Principles and
Oral Facilitation and
Practices
Ethics
Communications Negotiation
General Purpose
Applications
Decision Making
Industry
Knowledge
Personal Leadership and
Learning Teaching
Organization Influencing
Organization
Knowledge
Problem Solving
Specialized
Applications
Written
Trustworthiness Teamwork
Communications
Solution
Knowledge
Systems Thinking
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Techniques
consolidated in
Techniques
their own chapter
 34 techniques described in 2.0
 All techniques listed are performed
by a majority of BAs today
 Includes all commonly used
elicitation and analysis techniques
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