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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Lessons Learned Process
System
Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Analysis
2. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Goals
Requirements Package
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Approach
3. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
4. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Scope Modeling
Business Principals
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
5. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
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
Interface Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Requirements (Traced)
6. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
User Story
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
7. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Term and Fact Model
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
8. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Business Need
Systems Thinking
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Solution Assessment & Validation
9. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.
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
Strengths - Weaknesses
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Expert Judgment
10. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Principals
Data Flow Diagrams
Organizational Knowledge
11. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Monitoring
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Observation
12. Three types of organizational structures
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Policy
Estimation
Historic Analysis
13. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
MoSCoW Analysis
Solution Approach
Requirements Management Plan
14. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Analysis Approach
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
15. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Benchmarking
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
16. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
17. 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
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements Structure
Requirements Management & Communication
18. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Root Cause Analysis
19. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Goals
Activity List
Enterprise Analysis
20. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Document Elicitation Results task
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Dependencies
21. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Define Transitional Requirements
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
22. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
23. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Interface Analysis
Allocate Requirements
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
24. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.
Evaluation
Underlying Competencies
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
25. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Impact Analysis
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Estimation
26. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Elicitation Results
Functional Decomposition
Business Case
Problem or Vision Statement
27. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Business Need
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Use Case
Business Analysis Communication Plan
28. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Structured Walkthrough
Validate Solution
Requirements (Verified)
29. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Requirements Structure
Prepare Requirements Package
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Horizontal Prototype
30. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Validate Solution
Advantages of Document Analysis
Elimination
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
31. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Decision Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
32. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Prepare Requirements Package
Bottom-up Estimation
33. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Document Elicitation Results task
State Diagrams
Requirements Management Plan
Implementation Approach
34. 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.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Define Business Case
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Lessons Learned Process
35. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Analogous Estimation
Business Analysis Plan
Assess Organization Readiness
36. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Requirements (Traced)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Personal Organization
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
37. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Solution Performance Assessment
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Communicated Requirements
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
38. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
39. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
Implementation Approach
User Story
Goals
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
40. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Define Business Case
Systems Thinking
Budgeting
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
41. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
State Diagrams
Solution Assessment & Validation
Risk Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
42. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Bottom-up Estimation
Requirements Analysis
Expert Judgment
Evaluate Solution Performance
43. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Opportunity Cost
Advantages of Document Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
44. 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.
Confirm Elicitation Results
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
45. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Interviews - Observation
User Story
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
46. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Implementation Approach
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Scope Modeling
47. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Trustworthiness
Estimation
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
48. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Transition Requirements
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
BABOK
49. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Reporting
Validate Solution
Structural Rules
Three-point Estimation
50. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Metrics & KPIs
Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Validated)
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
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