Business Analysis- An Overview
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The document provides an overview of business analysis, detailing its knowledge areas, responsibilities of business analysts, and the evolving nature of the profession. Key tasks include identifying problems, eliciting and validating requirements, and recommending solutions, with a focus on effective requirement practices. It outlines the importance of communication and planning throughout the solution life cycle and defines the types of requirements involved in business analysis.
Business Analysis- An Overview
- 2. Introduction Before 19th century no one systematically studied the effectiveness of the different approaches of management. The profession come into exist during the information technology book in 1980‐1990.
- 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.
- 9. Requirement A condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem. A documented representation of a condition or capability.
- 10. Requirements Types The types of the requirements that exist vary based on the problem domain and methodology that the business analyst works with. Following are the types of requirements: ◦ Business requirements ◦ User requirements ◦ Functional requirements
- 11. Requirements Types Quality of service requirements Assumptions and Constraints Implementation requirements
- 12. Effective Requirement Practices The benefits include: ◦ A clear understanding of the needs of users, customers and stakeholders. ◦ High quality systems and products
- 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.
- 16. Requirements Communication This area is the collection of activities and considerations for expressing the output of the requirement analysis and documentation. Requirements must be packaged, reviewed and approved before the solution is implemented.
- 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.
- 24. Business Analyst A business analyst is generally a business domain expert. Key point is that a Business Analyst will assist and direct the business stakeholder is vision and direction into actionable business plan.
- 25. End of Chapter 1 Business analysis – an overview
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