BUSINESS ANALYSIS PROFESSIONAL

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CCBA, CBAP
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You Are An Excellent FIT

This course is designed for both new starters as well

as practising professionals in the field of business
analysis, who either want to pursue a career in this
field or want to build a better understanding of the
profession and learn how to work with full time
business analysts more efficiently.
THE GOAL !

➔ Get a solid end-to-end understanding of the

business analysis profession

➔ Be able to confirm that business analysis is

a good career choice or change for you

➔ Be able to operate with concepts and key

terms when working or managing BAs

➔ Be ready for IIBA certification exams.

WHATS YOUR WHY ?
Business Analysis Value
By harnessing the power of Business Analysis , corporations
● Identify areas of improvement /changes
● Optimize & streamline processes
● Identify risks
● Data driven decisions
● Big picture thinking
● Tailor services to meet ever-evolving customers needs
● Growth and continuous improvement ; success driver for maintaining market hold
The Business Analyst Role : Change Agent

● Define Needs & Solutions

● Requirement gathering and analysis
● Bridging technical and business gaps
● Stakeholder engagement & alignment to strategic objectives
● customer behavior analysis
● Industry , Process & system analysis
● Value delivery
● Change management .
Am ready …..Are you ?

"There is nothing so confining as the prisons of

our own perceptions."

~ William Shakespeare
Course Outline & Objectives
In this course, you will learn:

➔ Introduction To Business Analysis

➔ Business Analysis Key Concepts :BACCM ,Key Terms, Requirements
Classification , Requirements vs Design
➔ Business Analysis Tools & Techniques
➔ Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
➔ Strategy Analysis
➔ Elicitation & Collaboration
➔ Requirements Life Cycle Management
➔ Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
➔ Solution Evaluation
➔ Business Analysis skills and Underlying Competencies
➔ Agile & Scrum Training
Introduction

❏ All about IIBA (website,membership) : iiba.org

❏ Overview of BABOK
❏ What is Business Analysis ?
❏ Business Analysis Key Concepts :BACCM ,Key Terms, Requirements
Classification , Requirements vs Design
❏ BA Perspectives
What is IIBA
International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) is a
professional association leading the global business analysis
community to achieve better outcomes through better analysis.

IIBA
● supports the recognition of the profession within organizations,
● enables networking and community engagement,
● provides foundational standards and resources, and
● offers internationally recognized certification programs for career advancement.
Overview of BABOK
The BABOK is an important resource for business analysis practitioners to
know the tasks and activities they need to do, what competencies they
should have, and what techniques they may use to support their business
analysis work.

The BABOK core content is the business analysis tasks that are organized into
knowledge areas.
The rest of the BABOK is called the extended that helps us to better
understand and perform business analysis tasks
Overview of The Core Content
What is Business
Analysis?
The definition
The practice of enabling change in an enterprise by
defining needs and recommending solutions that
deliver value to stakeholders.

Business analysis is a broad profession in which

business analysts might perform work for many
different types of initiatives across an enterprise.
Why might you need an analyst on a project?

➔ Analyse enterprise goals, pinpoint problems, and recommend

strategies

➔ Analyse needs and requirements and make them understood by

the project team

➔ Define and monitor progress on the solution scope

➔ Manage the requirements over the project lifecycle

➔ Drive change and facilitate collaboration

➔ Validate the solution

Essentially a business analyst works on four levels

➔ Business: what does the organization as a whole need from a

change and why?

➔ Stakeholders: what are the needs and expectations of individuals

and groups involved with a change?

➔ Solution: What are the capabilities and qualities a solution should

have to meet the business and stakeholder requirements?

➔ Transition: How the organization can progress from the current

state to the future state?
No 2 BAs are the same!!

Business analysis can be performed from

a variety of perspectives.
BA skillsets
 Career path
C-level CTO, CIO COO, CDO CCO

Senior Enterprise Architect Sr. Business Analyst Strategic Designer

Business Architect Data
Architect

Middle Systems Analyst Service Request Business Analyst UX Designer

Analyst Business Process
Analyst Data Analyst

Junior Jr. Systems Analyst Service Desk Jr. Business Systems Jr. UX Designer
Analyst Analyst Jr. Business
Analyst

Technology focus Business focus Customer focus

Who is a Business Analyst
In this lesson, you should be able to understand the following:

➢ Definition of a Business Analyst

A business analyst is any person who performs business analysis tasks described in the
BABOK® Guide, no matter their job title or organizational role.

➢ Business Analysis Job Titles

Other common job titles for people who perform business analysis include: • business
architect, • business systems analyst, • data analyst, • enterprise analyst, • management
consultant, • process analyst, • product manager, • product owner, • requirements engineer,
and • systems analyst.

➢ A day in the life of a Business analyst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObCOPm-7SmY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdk9ZE4bIJw

➢ Types of Business Analysts

Business Analysis Core Concepts
In this lesson, you should be able to identify the following:

1. Business Analysis Core Concept Model :defines a conceptual framework for

the business analysis profession.
2. Business analysis key terms :definition of essential concepts
3. Requirements Classification : identifies levels or types of requirements that
assist the business analyst and other stakeholders in categorizing
requirements
4. Stakeholder Classification :defines roles, and characteristics of groups or
individuals participating in or affected by the business analysis activities within
a change.
5. Requirements vs design
The definition

The Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM ) is a

conceptual framework for business analysis.

It encompasses what business analysis is and what it means to

those performing business analysis tasks regardless of perspective,
industry, methodology, or level in the organization.

Source - BABOK® Guide

Change

The act of transformation in response to a need.

Change works to improve the performance of an enterprise. These

improvements are deliberate and controlled through business
analysis activities.
Need
A problem or opportunity to be addressed.

Needs can cause changes by motivating stakeholders to act.

Changes can also cause needs by eroding or enhancing the value
delivered by existing solutions.
Solution
A specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context.

A solution satisfies a need by resolving a problem faced by

stakeholders or enabling stakeholders to take advantage of an
opportunity.
Stakeholder
A group or individual with relationship to the change, the need, or
the solution.

Stakeholders are often defined in terms of interest in, impact on,

and influence over the change.
Value
The worth, importance, or usefulness of something to a
stakeholder.

Value can be seen as potential or realized returns, gains, and

improvements. Value can be tangible or intangible.
Context
The circumstances that influence, are influenced by, and provide
understanding of the change.

Changes occur within a context.

Context
Combination of internal and external issues that can have an
effect on an organization’s approach to developing and achieving
its objectives.

The concept of context of the organization is equally applicable to

not-for-profit or public service organizations as it is to those
seeking profits.

Synonyms: “business environment”, “organizational environment”

or “ecosystem of an organization”.
Key Terms
Business Analysis :The practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining
needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.

BA Information : any information that business analysts analyze, transform, and

report.
Design: usable representation of a solution.
Requirement :usable presentation of a need.

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Organization :autonomous group of people under the management of a single
individual or board working towards common goal.
Enterprise: A system of one or more organizations.
Plan: a set of events, the dependencies among the events, the expected sequence,
the schedule, the results or outcomes, the materials and resources needed, and
the stakeholders involved
Risk: effect of uncertainty on the value of a change or solution or enterprise. A
Busisness analyst identifies, assess and prioritize risks.
Its breakout time!
Requirement Classification Schema
1. Business Requirements

2. Stakeholder requirements

3. Solution Requirements : Functional & non-Functional (QoS)

4. Transition Requirements
Generic list of stakeholders
Perspectives
Used in business analysis to provide focus to tasks and techniques specific to
the context of the initiative :
1. Agile
2. Business Intelligence (BI)
3. Information Technology
4. Business Architecture
5. Business Process Management.
Action Item
1. Read chapters 1 & 2 of the BABOK.
Questions ?
7mins Group Presentation
Pick a product, service or initiative that did not deliver the expected outcome.

From the definition of what BA or the BACCM, how could implementing BA

have ensured value delivery?