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BUSINESS ANALYSIS PLANNING AND MONITORING
1. PLAN BUSINESS ANALYSIS APPROACH
  1. Workshops, Survey or Questionnaire, Brainstorming, Business Cases, Document Analysis, Estimation, Financial Analysis, Functional Decomposition, Interviews, Item Tracking, Lessons Learned, Process Modelling, Reviews, Risk Analysis and Management, Scope Modelling, Survey or Questionnaire, Workshops.
  2. Planning Approach, Formality and Level of Detail of Business Analysis Deliverables , Business Analysis Activities, Timing of Business Analysis Work, Complexity and Risk, Acceptance
2. PLAN STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMNET
  1. Perform Stakeholder Analysis, Define Stakeholder Collaboration, Stakeholder Communication Needs,
  2. Brainstorming, Business Rules Analysis, Document Analysis, Interviews, Lessons Learned, Mind Mapping, Organizational Modelling, Process Modelling, Risk Analysis and Management, Scope Modelling, Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas, Survey or Questionnaire, Workshops
3. PLAN BUSINESS ANALYSIS GOVERNANCE
  1. Decision Making, Change Control Process, Plan Prioritization Approach , Plan for Approvals
  2. Brainstorming, Document Analysis, Interviews, Item Tracking, Lessons Learned, Organizational Modelling, Process Modelling, Reviews, Survey or Questionnaire, Workshops.
4. PLAN BUSINESS ANALYSIS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
  1. Organization of Business Analysis Information, Level of Abstraction, Plan Traceability Approach, Plan for Requirements Reuse, Storage and Access, Requirements Attributes
  2. Brainstorming, Interviews, Item Tracking, Lessons Learned, Mind Mapping, Process Modelling, Survey or Questionnaire, Workshops.
5. IDENTIFY BUSIESS ANALYSIS PERFROMACE IMPROVEMNETS
  1. Performance Analysis, Assessment Measures, Analyze Results, Recommend Actions for Improvement
  2. Brainstorming, Interviews, Item Tracking, Lessons Learned, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Observation, Process Analysis, Process Modelling, Reviews, Risk Analysis and Management, Root Cause Analysis, Survey or Questionnaire, Workshops,
Elicitation and Collaboration
1. Prepare for Elicitation
  1. Understand the Scope of Elicitation, Select Elicitation Techniques, Set Up Logistics, Secure Supporting Material , Prepare Stakeholders.
  2. Brainstorming, Data Mining, Document Analysis, Estimation, Interviews, Mind Mapping, Risk Analysis and Management, Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas,
2. Conduct Elicitation
  1. Guide Elicitation Activity, Capture Elicitation Outcomes
  2. Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Brainstorming, Business Rules Analysis, Collaborative Games, Concept Modelling, Data Mining, Data Modelling, Document Analysis, Focus Groups, Interface Analysis, Interviews, Mind Mapping, Observation, Process Analysis, Process Modelling, Prototyping, Survey or Questionnaire, Workshops.
3. Confirm Elicitation Results
  1. Compare Elicitation Results Against Source Information, Compare Elicitation Results Against Other Elicitation Results,
  2. Document Analysis, Interviews, Reviews, Workshops.
4. Communicate Business Analysis Information
  1. Determine Objectives and Format of Communication, Communicate Business Analysis Package
  2. Interviews, Reviews, Workshops.
5. Manage Stakeholder Collaboration
  1. Gain Agreement on Commitments, Monitor Stakeholder Engagement , Collaboration,
  2. Collaborative Games, Lessons Learned, Risk Analysis and Management, Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas.
Requirements Life Cycle Management
1. Trace Requirements
  1. Level of Formality, Relationships, Traceability Repository
  2. Business Rules Analysis, Functional Decomposition, Process Modelling, Scope Modelling,
2. Maintain Requirements
  1. Maintain Requirements, Maintain Attributes, Reusing Requirements,
  2. Business Rules Analysis, Data Flow Diagrams, Data Modelling, Document Analysis, Functional Decomposition, Process Modelling, Use Cases and Scenarios, User Stories
3. Prioritize Requirements
  1. Backlog Management: , Business Cases, Decision Analysis, Estimation, Financial Analysis, Interviews, Item Tracking, Prioritization, Risk Analysis and Management, Workshops.
  2. Basis for Prioritization, Benefit, Penalty, Cost, Risk, Dependencies, Time Sensitivity, Stability, Regulatory or Policy Compliance, Challenges of Prioritization, Continual Prioritization.
4. Assess Requirements Changes
  1. Assessment Formality, Impact Analysis, Benefit, Cost, Impact, Schedule, Urgency, Impact Resolution
  2. Business Cases, Business Rules Analysis, Decision Analysis, Document Analysis, Estimation, Financial Analysis, Interface Analysis, Interviews, Item Tracking, Risk Analysis and Management, Workshops.
5. Approve Requirements
  1. Understand Stakeholder Roles, Conflict and Issue Management, Gain Consensus , Track and Communicate Approval
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Decision Analysis, Item Tracking, Reviews, Workshops.
Strategy Analysis
1. Analyze Current State
  1. Business Needs, From the top-down, From the bottom-up, From middle management, From external drivers, Organizational Structure and Culture, Capabilities, and Processes, Technology and Infrastructure, Policies, Business Architecture, Internal Assets, External Influencers, Industry Structure, Competitors, Customers, Suppliers, Political and Regulatory Environment, Technology, Macroeconomic Factors,
  2. Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Business Capability Analysis, Business Model Canvas, Business Cases, Concept Modelling, Data Mining, Document Analysis, Financial Analysis, Focus Groups, Functional Decomposition, Interviews, Item Tracking, Lessons Learned, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Mind Mapping, Observation, Organizational Modelling, Process Analysis, Process Modelling, Risk Analysis and Management, Root Cause Analysis, Scope Modelling, Survey or Questionnaire, SWOT Analysis, Vendor Assessment, Workshops.
2. Define Future State
  1. Business Goals and Objectives, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bounded, Scope of Solution Space, Constraints, Organizational Structure and Culture, Capabilities, and Processes, Technology and Infrastructure, Policies, Business Architecture, Internal Assets, Identify Assumptions, Potential Value.
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Brainstorming, Business Capability Analysis, Business Cases, Business Model Canvas, Decision Analysis, Decision Modelling, Financial Analysis, Functional Decomposition, Interviews, Lessons Learned, Mind Mapping, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Organizational Modelling, Process Modelling, Prototyping, Scope Modelling, Survey or Questionnaire, SWOT Analysis, Vendor Assessment, Workshops.
3. Assess Risks
  1. Unknowns, Constraints, Assumptions, and Dependencies, Negative Impact on Value, Risk Tolerance, Risk-aversion, Neutrality, Risk-seeking, Recommendation,
  2. Brainstorming, Business Cases, Decision Analysis, Document Analysis, Financial Analysis, Interviews, Lessons Learned, Mind Mapping, Risk Analysis, and Management, Root Cause Analysis, Survey or Questionnaire, Workshops.
4. Define Change Strategy
  1. Solution Scope, Gap Analysis, Enterprise Readiness Assessment, Change Strategy, Transition States and Release Planning.
  2. Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Brainstorming, Business Capability Analysis, Business Cases, Business Model Canvas, Decision Analysis, Estimation, Financial Analysis, Focus Groups, Functional Decomposition, Interviews, Lessons Learned, Mind Mapping, Organizational Modeling, Process Modelling, Scope Modelling, SWOT Analysis, Vendor Assessment, Workshops.
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
1. Specify and Model Requirements
  1. Model Requirements, Matrices, Diagrams, People and Roles, Rationale, Activity Flow, Capability, Data and Information, Analyze Requirements, Represent Requirements and Attributes, Implement the Appropriate Levels of Abstraction.
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Business Capability Analysis, Business Model Canvas, Business Rules Analysis, Concept Modelling, Data Dictionary, Data Flow Diagrams, Data Modelling, Decision Modelling, Functional Decomposition, Glossary, Interface Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements Analysis, Organizational Modelling, Process Modelling, Prototyping, Roles and Permissions Matrix, Root Cause Analysis, Scope Modelling, Sequence Diagrams, Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas, State Modelling, Use Cases and Scenarios, User Stories.
2. Verify Requirements
  1. Characteristics of Requirements and Designs Quality, Atomic, Complete, Consistent, Concise, Feasible, Unambiguous, Testable, Prioritized, Understandable, Verification Activities, Checklists.
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Item Tracking, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Reviews.
3. Validate Requirements
  1. Identify Assumptions, Define Measurable Evaluation Criteria, Evaluate Alignment with Solution Scope.
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Document Analysis, Financial Analysis, Item Tracking, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Reviews, Risk Analysis and Management.
4. Define Requirements Architecture
  1. Requirements Viewpoints and Views, Template Architectures , Completeness , Relate and Verify Requirements Relationships , Defined, Necessary, Correct, Unambiguous, Consistent, Business Analysis Information Architecture.
  2. Data Modelling, Functional Decomposition, Interviews, Organizational Modelling, Scope Modelling, Workshops.
5. Define Design Options
  1. Define Solution Approaches, Create, Purchase, Combination of both, Identify Improvement Opportunities , Increase Efficiencies, Improve Access to Information, Identify Additional Capabilities, Requirements Allocation, Describe Design Options.
  2. Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Brainstorming, Document Analysis, Interviews, Lessons Learned, Mind Mapping, Root Cause Analysis, Survey or Questionnaire, Vendor Assessment, Workshops.
6. Analyze Potential Value and Recommend Solution
  1. Expected Benefits, Expected Costs , timeline, maintenance costs, effort, physical resources, operating costs, information resources, purchase and/or implementation ,human resources costs, Determine Value, Assess Design Options and Recommend Solution, Available Resources, Constraints on the Solution, Dependencies between Requirements.
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Backlog Management, Brainstorming, Business Cases, Business Model Canvas, Decision Analysis, Estimation, Financial Analysis, Focus Groups, Interviews, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Risk Analysis and Management, Survey or Questionnaire, SWOT Analysis, Workshops.
Solution Evaluation
1. Measure Solution Performance
  1. Define Solution Performance Measures, Quantitative Measures, Qualitative Measures, Validate Performance Measures , Collect Performance Measures, Volume or Sample Size, Frequency and Timing, Currency.
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Business Cases, Data Mining, Decision Analysis, Focus Groups, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Non-Functional Requirements Analysis, Observation, Prototyping, Survey or Questionnaire, Use Cases and Scenarios, Vendor Assessment.
2. Analyze Performance Measures
  1. Solution Performance versus Desired Value, Risks, Trends, Accuracy , Performance Variances.
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Data Mining, Interview, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Observation, Risk Analysis and Management, Root Cause Analysis, Survey or Questionnaire.
3. Assess Solution Limitations
  1. Identify Internal Solution Component Dependencies , Investigate Solution Problems, Impact Assessment.
  2. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Business Rules Analysis, Data Mining, Decision Analysis, Interviews, Item Tracking, Lessons Learned, Risk Analysis and Management, Root Cause Analysis, Survey or Questionnaire.
4. Assess Enterprise Limitations
  1. Enterprise Culture Assessment, Stakeholder Impact Analysis, Functions, Locations, Concerns, Organizational Structure Changes , Operational Assessment.
  2. Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Brainstorming, Data Mining, Decision Analysis, Document Analysis, Interviews, Item Tracking, Lessons Learned, Observation, Organizational Modelling, Process Analysis, Process Modelling, Risk Analysis and Management, Roles and Permissions Matrix, Root Cause Analysis, Survey or Questionnaire, SWOT Analysis, Workshops.
5. Recommend Actions to Increase Solution Value
  1. Adjust Solution Performance Measures, Recommendations, Do Nothing, Organizational Change, Reduce Complexity of Interfaces, Eliminate Redundancy, Avoid Waste, Identify Additional Capabilities, Retire the Solution, ongoing cost versus initial investment, opportunity cost, necessity, sunk cost.
  2. Data Mining, Decision Analysis, Financial Analysis, Focus Groups, Organizational Modelling, Prioritization, Process Analysis, Risk Analysis and Management, Survey or Questionnaire.

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