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BABOK Enterprise Analysis
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1. Collection of Pre-Project Activities to Capture Future view of Business to provide Context to Project Requirements Elicitation - and Solution Design for Given Initiative or long-term Planning.
Collaborate with SME
New Project Proposal
Enterprise Analysis Activities
Investment Decisions
2. In the EA Activity - New Project Proposal - BAs (1) Collect relevant Info about Proposed new Project; (2) _________________; (3) Provide Decision Package to Business Sponsor to propose New Project to Organizational Project Investment Governance Body.
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Propose New Programs
Provide Executive Presentation
Determine Most Viable Option
3. Business Architecture provides ____________ that guides selection and management of programs/projects.
Application
Enterprise Governance Body
Unified structure and context
Relevant stakeholders
4. In the EA Activity Business Case Development - who is the ______? Business Analyst
Managing Projects for Value
Owner
Small - Low-Risk project
Business Analyst
5. The Requirements Elicitation Task
Feasibility Study Report
Managing Projects for Value
Initiatives realized by Organizations
ER: Elicit Requirements
6. The 10 Requirements Elicitation Techniques: 1) BS: Brainstorming; 2) _______________; 3) FG: Focus Group; 4) IA: Interface Analysis; 5) I: Interview; 6) O: Observation; 7) P: Prototyping; 8) RW: Requirements Workshop; 9) RE: Reverse Engineering; 10)
DA: Document Analysis
Initiatives realized by Organizations
ER: Elicit Requirements
Significant - High-Risk project
7. In the EA Activity - Strategic Plan Development - what are the Deliverables?
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Strategic Plan Document
Feasibility Study Report
8. The Requirements Planning and Management Activities: 1) ____________; 2) DBAWDS: Define Business Analyst Work Division Strategy; 3) DRRA: Define Requirements Risk Approach; 4) DPC: Determine Planning Considerations; 5) SRA: Select Requirements Activi
Business Case Document
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
Inputs
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
9. In the EA Activity - Feasibility Studies - who is the owner?
Business Requirements
Enterprise Analysis Activites
Business Analyst
Business Stakeholders
10. In the EA Strategic Planning - the BA needs to (1) ___________________; (2) Fully Understand Current Enterprise Strategies.
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
Inputs
Unified structure and context
Business Architecture
11. The Strategic Planning Process provides ______________ in which Enterprise Analysis is Conducted.
Provide Executive Presentation
Project Manager
Context
Support PM in Initiating/ Planning New Project
12. The Enterprise Analysis Activities? 1) _______________; 2) CFS: Conducting Feasibility Studies; 3) DPS: Determining Project Scope; 4) PBC: Preparing ttheeh Business Case; 5) CIRA: Conducting the Initial Risk Assessment; 6) PDP: Preparing theDecision
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Collaborate with SME
Determine Most Viable Option
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
13. In the EA Activity - Launching New Projects - who is the owner?
Initiatives realized by Organizations
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
Project Manager
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
14. (1) Why a Project is Initiated; (2) What a Project will Achieve; (3) Metrics used to Measure Success.
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Actual vs. Expected Benefits
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Business Requirements descriptions
15. _________________________- considered during the Strategic Planning Process: (1) Investigate Current Strategy as related to Environmental and Market Trends; (2) Assess Current Technology Structure and Strategies to Ensure Fit with Business Vison; (3)
Business Analyst
Business Circumstances and Needs
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
Business Requirements descriptions
16. In the EA Activity - _______________ - what are the Deliverables? (1) Executive Prsentation; (2) Decision Package
Enterprise Analysis Activities
New Project Proposal
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Context
17. Information Compiled as a Result of Enterprise Analysis Facilitates: _____________ that Manifest themselves in Programs and Supporting Projects.
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Future Course of an Enterprise
Investment Decisions
Measured and Analyzed
18. The 3 ____________________ Techniques: 1) DBM: Data and Behavior Models; 2) P/FM: Process / Flow Models; 3) UM: Usage Models
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
Business Analyst
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
Business Architecture
19. As PM matures into Critical Management Discipline - Orgs realize that _______.
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Business Analyst
20. Business Requirements for future project investments which are also Documented.
Actual vs. Expected Benefits
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Measured and Analyzed
Owner
21. The 10 Requirements Analysis and Documentation Tasks:: 1) ______________; 2) CBDM: Create Business Domain Model; 3) AUR: Analyze User Requirements; 4) AFR: Analyze Functional Requirements; 5) AQSR: Analyze Quality of Service Requirements; 6) DAC: Det
Feasibility Study Report
Provide Management with Info
Managing Projects for Value
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
22. Business Architecture considered to be: __________ used to understand the current state and plans for the future state of the enterprise.
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Strategic asset
Determine Most Viable Option
Application
23. Why are Companies adopting the practice of Professional Business Analysis? To ___________.
Long term goals/objectives
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
24. The 7 _______________: 1) CRCP: Create a Requirements Communication Plan; 2) MRC: Manage Requirements Conflicts; 3) DARF: Determine Appropriate Requirements Format; 4) CRP: Create a Requirements Package; 5) CRP: Conduct a Requirements Presentation; 6
Internal interest only
Propose New Programs
Enterprise Analysis Activities
Requirements Communications Tasks
25. What does the Business Architecture define?
New Project Proposal
Relevant stakeholders
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Sr. BAs
26. In the EA Activity - Feasibility Studies - BAs (1) Collaborate with SME; (2) Facilitate team to (a) Identify Solutions; (b) Examine Feasibility of Each Option; (c) _______________
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
Determine Most Viable Option
Organization's Future
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
27. In the EA Activity - Managing Projects for Value - BAs (1) Works in Partnership with PM to Update Business Case at key checkpoint control gate reviews to ________________ to Help Determine whether to Continue to Invest in Project.
Provide Management with Info
Inputs
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
Enterprise Analysis Activities
28. In the Activity - Strategic Goal Development - Sr. BA's _______________
Business Requirements
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
Business Analyst
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
29. The attributes of a small - low risk project type: 1) < 6 months; 2) Schedule is flexible; 3) Not complex: easily understood/solution readily available; 4) ________________; 5) Impacts a single bu; 6) No major dependencies/inter-related projects
Inputs
Business Architecture
Internal interest only
Organization's Future
30. In the EA Activity - Strategic Goal Development - what are the Deliverables?
Enterprise Analysis in large organizations
Strategic Goals - Themes - and Measures
Sponsor
Strategic asset
31. In the EA Activity Business Case Development - what are the Deliverables?
Future Course of an Enterprise
New Project Proposal
Organization's Future
Business Case Document
32. Living - Breathing Document that Changes as Business Needs Evolve.
Strategic Plan
Decision-Support Information
Business Requirements
Enterprise Analysis
33. KA of BABOK that Describes Business Analysis Activities need for organizations to (1) Identify Business Opportunities - (2) Build Business Architecture Framework - (3) Determine Optimum Project Investment Path - including New Business and Technical S
New Project Proposal
Inputs
Enterprise Analysis
Organization's Reason for Being
34. In the EA Activity - Launching New Project - what are the Deliverables?
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Provide Executive Presentation
Business Architecture
Project Plan
35. In the EA Activity - Managing Projects for Value - what are the Deliverables?
New Project Proposal
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
36. Enterprise Analysis Activities continue until Information is gathered to ___________ and Supporting Projects to Management for go/no go Decision to (1) Select - (2) Prioritize - (3) Fund new project.
Propose New Programs
Strategic Plan
Organization's Reason for Being
Executive Team
37. The level of enterprise analysis needed for a ____________: 1) Simplified set of enterprise analysis deliverables: a) Simplified Business Case; b) some Business Architecture to provide context.
Small - Low-Risk project
New Project Proposal
Provide Management with Info
Project Plan
38. In the EA Activity - Tracking Project Benefits - what are the Deliverables?
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements Communications Tasks
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Balanced Scorecard Reports
39. Things defined in the Strategic Planning Role: _______________ in Terms of (1) Vision - (2) Mission - (3) Strategic Goals.
40. In the EA Activity - Tracking Project Benefits - who is the owner? Business ___________
Future Course of an Enterprise
Executive Team
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Sponsor
41. In the EA Activity - Strategic Goal Development - who is the owner?
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Enterprise Analysis
Executive Team
Business Requirements
42. In the EA Activity - Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities - Sr. BAs (1) ________________; (2) Present Proposal for New Projects.
Business Architecture
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
Project Manager
Feasibility Study Report
43. For Management to _____________ they need: 1) Accurate - (2) Consistent - (3) Useful Information about new ventures and currently funded ventures.
Investment Decisions
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
Long term goals/objectives
Business Analyst
44. In the EA Activity - Feasibility Studies - what are the Deliverables?
Propose New Programs
Measured and Analyzed
Feasibility Study Report
Enterprise Governance Body
45. What does Strategic Planning Serve to Establish?
Business Stakeholders
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Strategic Plan Document
Future Course of an Enterprise
46. In the EA Activity - Launching New Project - the BAs (1) ___________________. (2) During Project Initiation/Planning Processes - Elicit - Analyze - Document - Validate business Requirements AND Collaborate with System Architect during Intiial Design
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
Support PM in Initiating/ Planning New Project
Business Requirements descriptions
Business Requirements
47. Set of documentation that defines an organization's current and future capabilities;
Business Sponsor
Business Architecture
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Executive Team
48. In the EA Activity - Business Architecture Development - what are the Deliverables?
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Business Architecture
Sponsor
Requirements Communications Tasks
49. In the EA Activity - Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities - who is the owner?
Business Stakeholders
Unified structure and context
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Enterprise Governance Body
50. Begin fter Executive Team Develops Strategic Plans and Goals
Business Sponsor
Enterprise Analysis Activites
Sr. BAs
Propose New Programs