System thinking skills in business analysis

To completely understand the organization, the business analyst would have to understand the people, processes, and technology within the organization.

Every organization is made up of a system which has properties, behaviors, and characteristics that appear from the relationship of … Read the rest

Organization and time management in business analysis

Business analysts have to be able to organize their time in order to efficiently manage their work and execute their tasks.

Organization and time management in relation to business analysis is the ability of a business analyst to efficiently manage … Read the rest

Solution evaluation

The solution evaluation knowledge area is used by business analysts to evaluate the value delivered by a solution and to recommend the removal of constraints for full value realization.

The activities that are performed in the solution evaluation task are … Read the rest

Value analysis and solution recommendation

The analyze potential value and recommend solution task is used to calculate the possible value for each design option and decide which is the most suitable one to meet the enterprise’s requirements.

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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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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

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

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

Tracing requirements

Requirements tracing is used to ensure that the requirements and designs which might be at different levels are aligned to each other.

It is also used to manage the effects of the changes of one requirement in relation to other … Read the rest

Requirements maintenance

Requirements are maintained to ensure that requirement accuracy is retained and there is consistency throughout the requirements life cycle. It also supports the reuse of the requirements in other solutions.

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