Requirements lifecycle management

The requirements life cycle management knowledge area describes the tasks that are used to manage and maintain requirements and design information throughout the life cycle of the solution.

These tasks in the requirement life cycle management knowledge area are used … Read the rest

Managing stakeholder collaboration

People skills is a must for every business analyst.

As a business analyst, you would have to work with numerous stakeholders, these stakeholders would have various levels of importance.

Identifying these levels is importance because it influences the change. Identifying … Read the rest

Communicating business analysis information

Once the requirements have been confirmed the business analyst would have to communicate the confirmed requirements. These confirmed requirements are known as the business analysis information packages.

The information packages are created to ensure that the stakeholders have a shared … Read the rest

Confirming elicitation results

Once requirements have been elicited they have to be confirmed.

Though stakeholders might seem sure of they want, confirming the requirements with these stakeholders might yield additional insight, expose assumptions and possibly create additional requirements.

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Conducting elicitation activity

The whole point of the elicitation and collaboration activity is to gather the requirements of the solution.

The conduct elicitation task is used to achieve this by identifying information that is relevant to the change.

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Preparing for elicitation

The prepare for elicitation task is used to understand the elicitation activity, decide on the appropriate technique and get the needed resources.

To prepare for this activity the business analyst has to define the desired outcomes, decide on the stakeholders … Read the rest

Elicitation and collaboration

As a business analyst, you have to be able to understand the needs of the business. In order to do this you have to obtain information, we use elicitation and collaborative techniques to do this.

Elicitation is the way in … Read the rest

Business analysis information management planning

The plan business analysis information management activity is used to create an approach to accessing and storing business analysis information.

When conducting business analysis activities such as elicitation, a lot of information would be generated. All of this information has … Read the rest

Business analysis governance planning

Governance is defined as the processes that ensure accountability and that is important in the field of business analysis.

The plan business analysis task is used to state how decisions are made about requirements and designs.

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Stakeholders engagement

As a business analyst you would work with numerous people and learning how to work with these people is very important.

If you are a natural people person, it would help with stakeholder analysis but if you are naturally introverted … Read the rest