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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Requirements Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Required Capabilities
Ethics
2. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Reporting
Use Case
3. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Organize Requirements
Reporting
Stakeholder Matrix
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
4. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Business Rules Analysis
5. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Vertical Prototype
Data Flow Diagrams
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Acceptance Criteria
6. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
User Story
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
7. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Requirements Management & Communication
Throw-away Prototype
Bottom-up Estimation
Prepare Requirements Package
8. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Requirements Structure
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Onion Diagram
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
9. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Goals
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Verify Requirements
10. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Delphi Estimation
Business Analysis Approach
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
11. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
12. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
SWOT Analysis
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Problem or Vision Statement
13. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Brainstorming
Scope Modeling
14. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Estimation
15. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Analysis Process Assets
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Interviews
16. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Define Business Case
Underlying Competencies
Throw-away Prototype
17. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Term and Fact Model
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
State Diagrams
18. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Business Analysis Plan
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Analysis Approach
Functional Decomposition
19. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Organizational Knowledge
Communicated Requirements
Validate Solution
20. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Required Capabilities
21. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.
Requirements (Allocated)
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Implementation Approach
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
22. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Problem or Vision Statement
Goals
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
23. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Principals
Implementation SME
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements (Validated)
24. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Vertical Prototype
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
25. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Validate Solution
Define Transitional Requirements
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
26. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Rule
Business Analysis Approach
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Solution Performance Assessment
27. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
28. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Business Policy
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Data Flow Diagrams
29. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -
Document Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
30. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Interviews
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
31. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Requirements Analysis
Trustworthiness
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Three-point Estimation
32. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Delphi Estimation
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Observation
33. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
34. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Perform tailoring exercises
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Structure
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
35. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w
Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Monitoring
36. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Interface Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
37. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Management Plan
Validate Solution
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
38. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Leadership
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
All
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
39. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Rules Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Stakeholder Concerns
40. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Focus Group
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
41. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Case
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Approved)
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
42. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Prioritized)
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Implementation SME
43. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Requirements (Traced)
Implementation Approach
SWOT Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
44. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Glossary
Strengths - Weaknesses
Elicitation Results
45. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Metrics & KPIs
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
46. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Communicated Requirements
Requirements Management Plan
Solution Scope
47. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Horizontal Prototype
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements Management Plan
Allocate Requirements
48. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
49. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Structural Rules
Customer
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
50. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements