Planning of BA work from creation/selection of methodology to planning activities, tasks, and deliverables -Answer- Plan Business Analysis Approach
Considerations for selecting the preferred Business Analysis Approach -Answer- Complexity of change
Heavily regulated, contracts/agreements
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Planning of BA work from creation/selection of methodology to planning activities, tasks,
and deliverables -Answer- ✔Plan Business Analysis Approach
Considerations for selecting the preferred Business Analysis Approach -Answer-
✔Complexity of change
Heavily regulated, contracts/agreements
Stakeholders geographically distributes
Resources outsourced
High staff turnover or inexperienced
If BA info must be maintained for longer term or future use.
When to use predictive approach? -Answer- ✔(client knows what they want) can be
planned in advance and system can be developed according to the plan. Solution can
be defined before implementation to maximize control and minimize risk.
When is adaptive approach perferred? -Answer- ✔Change Driven approach.
Adaptive is rapid delivery of business value in short iterations in return for acceptance of
higher degree of uncertainty regarding the overall delivery of the solution.
Preferred when taking an exploratory approach to finding the best solution or for
incremental improvements of an existing solution.
Considerations for appropriate level of business analysis formality -Answer- ✔Change is
complex and high risk, heavily regulated, contracts/agreements, stakeholders
geographically distributed, resources are outsourced, high staff turnover or
inexperienced, BA info must be maintained long term or for future use
Activities involved in identifying Business analysis activities -Answer- ✔Activities
required to complete each deliverable and then breaking into tasks
Dividing work into iterations, identifying deliverables for each iteration, identifying the
associated activities and tasks
Using a previous similar initiative as an outline and applying the detailed tasks and
activities unique to current initiative.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring Tasks -Answer- ✔1. Plan Business Analysis
Approach
2. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
3. Plan Business Analysis Governance
4. Plan Business Analysis Information Management
5. Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
(PPPPI)
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Elicitation and Collaboration Tasks -Answer- ✔1. Prepare for Elicitation
2. Conduct Elicitation
3. Confirm Elicitation Results
4. Communicate Business Analysis Information
5. Manage Stakeholder Collaboration
(PCCCM)
What are the inputs to Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring? -Answer- ✔Needs
Performance objectives (external)
Planning process is Iterative. True or False. -Answer- ✔True - plans are updated to
address changing business and newly raised issues.
What influences the timing of business analysis work? -Answer- ✔Availability of
stakeholders
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Priority/Urgency of initiative
Other concurrent initiatives
Constraints (contracts/regulatory)
Factors to Assess Complexity and Risk -Answer- ✔Impacts to Complexity:
Size of change
# of business areas/systems affected
Geographic & Cultural considerations
Technology complexities
Risks that impede BA effort
Impacts to Risk Level:
Experience of BA
Extent of BA knowledge
Level of Stakeholder experience
Stakeholder attitudes about BA
Time allocated by Stakeholders for BA activities
Pre-Selected framework
Methodology/Tools/Techniques
Activities to gain stakeholder understanding and agreement -Answer- ✔Review and
agreed upon by Key stakeholders
BA activities identified
Estimates are realistic
Proposed roles and responsibilities are correct
Purpose of Plan Stakeholder Engagement -Answer- ✔Plan an approach for establishing
and maintaining effective working relationships with the stakeholders.
Initial sources for Stakeholder Analysis -Answer- ✔Org chart and business process are
INITIAL source
Other source:
Sponsor
External stakeholders may be uncovered by reviewing contracts, anticipated vendors,
regulatory/governing bodies.
Importance of performing stakeholder analysis -Answer- ✔Ensures stakeholders are not
overlooked
Understand the stakeholders
Impact of proposed changes
Influence on change is vital to understanding the needs
Wants and expectations that must be met by a solution
Define Stakeholder collaboration -Answer- ✔Timing & frequency of collaboration
Location
Available tools such as wikis
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Delivery method (person/virtual)
Preferences of stakeholders
Stakeholder Communication Needs -Answer- ✔What needs to Communicated
Delivery method
Appropriate audience
When
Frequency
Plan Business Analysis Governance -Answer- ✔Define how decisions are made about
requirements and designs, including reviews, change control, approvals, and
prioritization
Stakeholder roles when defining an effective decision=making process -Answer-
✔Participant in decision making discussions, SME lending experience and knowledge to
decision making process, reviewing of information, approver of decisions.
Developing an effective change control process -Answer- ✔Process for requesting
changes
Elements of change request (Cost, benefits, risk, priority, action)
Change prioritization
Change documentation
Change communication
Who will perform impact analysis
Who will authorize changes.
Considerations for change request -Answer- ✔Cost and time estimates
benefits
risks
priority
course of action
Factors for an effective prioritization process -Answer- ✔Formality and rigor of
prioritization process
Participants to prioritization
Process for deciding how prioritization will occur
Prioritization techniques to use
Prioritization criteria (cost, risk, value)
Approval process elements -Answer- ✔Schedule of events where approvals will occur
how they will be tracked.
Plan for Approvals -Answer- ✔agreement between all SH: reqs and designs are
accurate, adequate, sufficient detail -> continued progress; type of reqs and designs to
be approved; timing for the approvals; process to follow to gain approval; who will
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