Introduction to BABOK V3
Agenda
• Why Business Analysis
• Introduction to BABOK V3
Classification: Restricted Page 2
Why Business Analysis?
Classification: Restricted Page 3
Introduction to BABOK V3
• The primary purpose of the BABOK® Guide is to define the profession of
business analysis and provide a set of commonly accepted practices
• It helps practitioners discuss and define the skills necessary to effectively
perform business analysis work.
• The BABOK® Guide is a common framework for all perspectives, describing
business analysis tasks that are performed to properly analyze a change or
evaluate the necessity for a change.
• The SIX knowledge areas of the BABOK® Guide describe the practice of
business analysis as it is applied within the boundaries of a project or
throughout enterprise evolution and continuous improvement.
• Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring (BAPM),
• Elicitation and Collaboration (EC),
• Requirements Life Cycle Management (RLCM),
• Strategy Analysis (SA),
• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition (RADD), and
• Solution Evaluation (SE)
Classification: Restricted Page 4
Structure of the BABOK Guide
• The core content of the BABOK® Guide is composed of business analysis
tasks organized into knowledge areas.
• Knowledge areas are a collection of logically (but not sequentially) related
tasks.
• These tasks describe specific activities that accomplish the purpose of their
associated knowledge area.
Classification: Restricted Page 5
Structure of the BABOK Guide
The Business Analysis Key Concepts, Underlying Competencies, Techniques,
and Perspectives sections form the extended content in the BABOK® Guide
that helps guide business analysts to better perform business analysis
tasks.
•Business Analysis Key Concepts define the key terms needed to
understand all other content, concepts and ideas within the BABOK
guide
•Underlying Competencies provide a description of the behaviors,
characteristics, knowledge and personal qualities that support the
effective practice of business analysis
• Techniques provide a means to perform business analysis tasks.
Classification: Restricted Page 6
Knowledge areas
Classification: Restricted Page 7
Knowledge areas
Describes the tasks that
business analysts
perform to organize and
co-ordinate the efforts of
business analysts and
stakeholders.
Classification: Restricted Page 8
Knowledge areas
Describes the tasks
that business analysts
perform to prepare for
and conduct elicitation
activities and confirm
the results obtained.
Classification: Restricted Page 9
Knowledge areas
Describes the tasks that
business analysts
perform in order to
manage and maintain
requirements and design
information from
inception to retirement
Classification: Restricted Page 10
Knowledge areas
Describes the business
analysis work that must
be performed to
collaborate with
stakeholders in order to
identify a need of
strategical or tactical
importance.
Classification: Restricted Page 11
Knowledge areas
Describes the tasks that
business analysts
perform to structure and
organize requirements.
Classification: Restricted Page 12
Knowledge areas
Describes the tasks that business
analysts perform to assess the
performance of and value
delivered by a solution in use by
the enterprise and to
recommend remove barriers or
constraints that prevent the full
realization of the value.
Classification: Restricted Page 13
Knowledge area relationships
Classification: Restricted Page 14
Knowledge area relationships
Tasks:- A task is a discrete piece of work that may be performed formally
or informally as part of business analysis.
Tasks are grouped into knowledge areas. Each task in the BABOK guide is
presented in the following format:-
• Purpose
• Description
• Inputs
• Elements
• Guidelines/Tools
• Techniques
• Stakeholders
• Outputs
The business analysts perform tasks from all knowledge areas
sequentially, iteratively or
simultaneously.
Classification: Restricted Page 15
Knowledge area relationships
Underlying Competencies:- The Underlying Competencies reflect
knowledge, skills, behaviors, characteristics and personal qualities that help
one successfully perform the role of the business analyst.
Underlying competencies have the following structure:-
• Purpose
• Description
• Effectiveness Measures
Techniques :- Techniques provide additional information on ways that a
task may be performed.
Techniques have the following structure:-
• Purpose
• Description
• Elements
• Usage Considerations
Classification: Restricted Page 16
Techniques
Classification: Restricted Page 17
Techniques
Perspectives:- The Perspectives are used within the business analysis work
to provide focus to
tasks and techniques specific to the context of the initiative.
The perspectives included in the BABOK guide are:-
• Agile
• Business Intelligence
• Information Technology
• Business Architecture
• Business Process Management
Classification: Restricted Page 18
Thank You
Classification: Restricted Page 36
