In this presentation you will get to know how practice of “Analyzing Business, Identifying Problems and Opportunities and providing Solutions” that will benefit business.
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3. Knowledge areas of Business
Analysis
There are six knowledge areas of Business analysis:
1. Enterprise Analysis
2. Requirement planning and Management
3. Requirement Elicitation
4. Requirement analysis and Documentation
5. Requirement Communication
6. Solution Assessment and Validation.
4. Responsibilities of a Business
Analyst
Identify business problems and opportunities.
Elicitating, validating Communicating and
validating requirements.
Recommending solutions.
5. Skills in Business Analysis
Knowledge Skills
Collaboration Skills
Leadership Skills
6. Business Analysis –
The Profession
The business analysis profession is growing and
evolving consistently Defining business analysis
Profession.
This Includes:
◦ Senior Executives
◦ Project managers
◦ Students of Business Analysis.
7. Defining Business Analysis
Profession
Business Analysis is a set of tasks, knowledge and
techniques required to identify needs and
determine solutions to business problems.
8. Business Analyst Role
A business analyst woks as a liaison among
stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze,
communicate and validate requirements.
13. Enterprise Analysis
This area is the collection of pre‐project activities.
Typical Enterprise Analysis activities leading upto
project selection guided by the Business Analyst.
They are as follows:
◦ Creating and maintaining the Business Architecture
◦ Preparing the Business Case
◦ Preparing the Decision Package
14. Requirements Planning &
Management
This area defines the resource and tasks associated
with the planning and managements of
requirements.
This is necessary to ensure:
◦ The set of requirements activities undertaken are the most
appropriate, given the unique circumstances of the project.
◦ Changes are captured correctly and consistently.
15. Requirements Analysis &
Documentation
This area describes how stakeholder needs are
analyzed, structured and specified for use in the
design and implementation of a solution.
Requirements analysis defines the methods, tools
and techniques used to structure the raw data.
17. Solution Assessment and
Validation
This area covers the business analysis tasks
necessary to ensure that that solution meets the
stakeholder objectives is thoroughly tested and is
implemented smoothly.
18. The Business analysis
principles in context
The BA principles define the activities, tasks and
knowledge that business analysis professionals
need to know.
19. The Important points
1. The BA fundamentals and glossary are not
activity or task drives.
2. Not all work that a business analysis professional
does is for a defined project.
3. Requirements planning and management
activities tend to span the duration of the project
with planning input provided to each of the other
areas
20. The Important points
4. Communicating about requirements is also tend
to span the duration of the project.
5. Theoretically, one gathers requirements then
analyzes and documents them, then uses them as
input into the designs that lead to the final
implementation of the gathered and documented
requirements.
6. Information gathered during requirements
elicitation or analysis any lead to further work.
21. Relationship to
The Solution Life Cycle
The business analysis principles will be compatible
with small to large, simple to complex projects and
all types of methodologies.
Note that this is a non‐propositional ordering of
events in the timeline
22. Key Points
Business analysis is a set of tasks, knowledge and
techniques required to identify business needs and
determine solutions to business problems
Requirements serve as the foundation of systems
or system components.
The requirement planning and management area
define the resource and tasks associated with the
planning and management of requirements
gathering activities.
23. Key Points
The requirements elicitation area defines standard
techniques used to collect the requirements of the
systems.
Requirements communication is an ongoing
activity.
Solution assessment and validation covers the
business analysis tasks necessary to ensure that
that solution meets the stakeholder objectives is
thoroughly tested and is implemented smoothly.
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