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BABOOK
1. Introduction
1.2 What is business analysis?
- the process of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakholders.
1.3 Who is a business analyst?
ba play a role in aligning the designed and delivered solutions with needs of stakeholders. The activities that business analysts perform include:
- understanding enterprise problems and goals
- analyzing needs and solutions
- devising strategies
- driving change
- facilitating stakeholdes collaboration
1.4 Knowledge areas
represent areas of spcific business analysis expertise that encompass several tasks 
Business analysis Planning and Monitoring
tasks that bas perform to organize and coordinate the efforts of business analysis and stakeholders
Elicitation and Collaboration
tasks to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results obtained. Describes the communication with the skth once the ba information is assembled and the ongoing collaboration with them throughout the ba activities
Requirements Life Cycle Management
thasks to manage and mentain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
Strategy analysis
work that must be performed to collaborate with stkh in order to identify a need of strategical or tactical importance (business need), enable the enterprise to address that need, and allign the resulting strategy for the change with higher- and lower-level strategies.
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
tasks that helps structure and organize requirements from the ellicititation activities, specif the model and design, verify information, identify solution options and estimated the potetial value for each soluton
Solution Evaluation
tasks that help analyse the performance and the delivered value of a solution, and recommend contraines that prevent the full realization of the value
1.5 Tasks
- is a descrete piece of work that my be performed formally or informally as part of business analysis
- Business analysts perform tasks fromm all knowledge areas sequently, iteratively, or simultaneously
- Tasks can be performed in any order as long as the necessary inputs are meet
- A ba initiative may start with any task, but most likely with Analyze Current State or Measure Solution Performance
1. Purpose
- short description of the reason to perform a task
2. Description
- explains in great detail what the task is, why it is performed and what should be accomplished
3. Inputs
- information needed to produce an output
- information needed for the task to begin
- inputs generated outside the ba efforts are identified as 'external'
- includes visual representation of the inputs, outputs and other tasks that use the output
4. Elements
- the key concepts that are needed to understand how to perform a task
5. Guidlines and tools
- resources that are required to transform the input in output.
- Guidline - why or how to undertake a task
- Tool - something used to undertake a task
6. Techniques
- lists the techniques that can be used to performe the task
7. Stakeholders
generic list of stkhwho are likely to participate in performing, or will be affected by the task8. Outputs
- results produced by performing the task
1.6 Underlying competencies
- reflect knowledge, skills, behaviours, characteristics, and personal qualities that help one successfully perform the role of the business analyst.
- Structure: 1. Purpose 2. Definition 3. Effectivenss Measures
1.7 Techniques
- provide additional information on ways that a task may be performed
- Strucutre:
1. Purpose
- what the technique is used for and the applience circumstances
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1.8 Perspective
- provide focus to tasks and techniques to the context initiative.
- Most initiatives are likely to engage one or more perspectives
Perspectives included in BABOK
- Agile
- Business Intelligence
- Business Arhitecture
- Business Process Management
Strucutre:
- Change Scope
- Business Analysis Scope
- Methodologies, Approaches and Techniques
- Undetlying Competencies
Impact on Knowledge areas
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