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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Scenarios & Use Cases
Communicated Requirements
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
2. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Monitoring
Data Dictionary
3. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Tracing Requirements
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Stakeholder Concerns
4. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Define Business Case
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Systems Thinking
5. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Solution Performance Assessment
6. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Budgeting
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Parametric Estimation
7. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Problem Solving
Elicitation
Vertical Prototype
Problem Tracking
8. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Timeboxing
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Ethics
9. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Organizational Readiness Assessment
10. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Vertical Prototype
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Requirements Structure
11. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Elicitation Results
Communicated Requirements
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
12. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Organizational Knowledge
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
13. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
MoSCoW Analysis
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
System
Requirements (Analyzed)
14. 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
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
15. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem Solving
Estimation
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
16. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Allocate Requirements
Organize Requirements
17. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Impact Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Prepare Requirements Package
18. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
19. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Requirements Package
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
20. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
21. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements Structure
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
22. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Need
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
23. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Opportunity Cost
Elicitation Results
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
24. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Learning
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
25. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Organize Requirements
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
26. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Requirements Structure
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
27. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Case
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Policy
28. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Workshop
Business Analysis Approach
Requirements (Prioritized)
29. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Transition Requirements
Business Case
Validate Requirements
30. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Analogous Estimation
Implementation SME
Requirements Workshop
Organization Modeling
31. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Vendor Assessment
Business Analysis Approach
32. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Enterprise Analysis
Ethics
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
33. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
MoSCoW Analysis
Solution Knowledge
34. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
BABOK
35. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Cognitive Conflict
Scope Modeling
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
36. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Monitoring
37. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Horizontal Prototype
Brainstorming
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Requirements (Analyzed)
38. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Structural Rules
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Rule
39. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Transition Requirements
40. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements Workshop
Brainstorming
41. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
Solution Knowledge
Cognitive Conflict
Decision Analysis
Implementation Approach
42. 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.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Interviews
43. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
44. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Prototyping
Decision Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
45. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
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
Risk Analysis
46. Two types of conflict.
Systems Thinking
Required Capabilities
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Emotional and Cognitive
47. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Observation
Opportunity Cost
48. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Tracing Requirements
Validate Requirements
49. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Elicitation
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
50. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Lessons Learned Process
Stakeholder Matrix
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation