CBAP Definitions

BABOK Type

Area

Name Organizational modeling

Definition is used during requirements analysis to describe the organizational units, the stakeholders, and the relationships between them. This allows you the opportunity to structure your project requirements based upon the needs of each stakeholder group.

Process modeling

Models organize your requirements using a hierarchy of processes and subprocesses and addressing those processes from start to finish./Process modeling is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current process may be analyzed and improved in future. It allows the requirements to be organized around the related processes. Processes are also considered to have sub-processes, inputs, and outputs.

RACI Charts

A RACI chart is a roles and responsibilities chart, not a requirement documentation technique. RACI means responsible, accountable, consult, and inform for project activities, not requirement.

Creative thinking The opportunity cost

is to create invative new ideas The opportunity cost is the total value of the opportunity that can be taken advantage of.

nterprise analysis

Enterprise Analysis focuses on identifying the business needs that drive a project and defining a feasible solution scope that can be implemented by the business. This knowledge area includes developing the business requirements for a project that define the high-level goals, objectives, and needs of the organization, and the high-level business functionality needed in the resulting solution

The change-driven approach

The change-driven approach favors defining requirements through team interaction. The change-driven approach looks to create business value in short iterations. The downside of this approach, however, is that there is more risk and uncertainty in the overall direction. The change-driven approach relies on team interaction to define requirements and gather feedback on the solution.

Plan-driven business analysis Plan-driven business analysis tries to minimize your up-front uncertainty (or risk) and maximize your control over the business analysis activities on your project. This is a more traditional style of development, such as the waterfall model of software development or what you find in straightforward business process reengineering initiatives. risk Transference (outsource) transferring the risk to a third party. This doesn't reduce or eliminate the risk, but transfers the ownership of the risk event. risk Mitigation

Mitigation is a risk response to reduce the probability or impact of the risk event. In this example, the training reduces the probability of errors.

Type

Area

Name risk Acceptance

Definition Acceptance is the only risk response that can be used for both positive and negative risk events. For example, you might use acceptance when you have identified a small risk event that has little probability and/or little impact on the project objectives.

risk Avoidance

Avoidance is evident when the risk is entirely avoided or removed from the requirements.

risk

They will accept high risks if there are also high rewards.Risk-seeking organizations look for high-risk events, such as entrepreneurial organizations, as long as the high-risks also have a high reward for the risk event accepted.

All in approach to timeboxing The business analyst will implement each requirement that is being prioritized. Start with all requirements eligible requirements in the hypothetical box (project) and then remove them one-by-one, based on how you plan to meet the schedule dates or budget limit.This answer reflects the approach considering all project requirements, but removing them one by one until the maximum time and budget have been satisfied. Analogous estimation

This is an example of an analogous estimating approach. It uses a similar project to create an analogy of what the current project's duration will be.

the three-point estimate

is an average, for the project. This approach takes the average of the optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely to predict the duration.

Assumption analysis

Assumption analysis is done in order to test the accuracy of assumptions made in the project. It may generate one or more risks once an assumption proves to be false.

Requirements analysis tools and techniques

Requirements analysis tools and techniques are used to develop the stakeholder and solution requirements. The Requirements Analysis knowledge area focuses on analyzing the stated requirements from the elicitation efforts and building the real stakeholder or solution requirements for the project.

Validate requirements

Validating requirements make sure that the requirements support the business requirements and the business objectives for the project. In order to be valid, the requirements should contribute directly or indirectly to the business case. Requirements validation is ongoing across the project life cycle; it helps in ensuring that each level of detail a user adds to his/her requirements aligns with the big picture.

Consistent requirements

Consistent requirements do not contradict or conflict with one another. Here in this statement, it is stated that requirements describe the same feature but produce different results; therefore, these requirements are termed as not consistent.

data flow diagrams

Data flow diagrams permit a user to organize his/her requirements based on how information or data flows through the system.

Type

Area

Name Timeboxing

Definition Timeboxing describes the amount of work that the project team is capable of completing in a set period of time.

Requirement analysis

Requirements analysis obtains elicited information and makes sense of this information. The tasks involved in the Requirements Analysis knowledge area focus on analyzing the stated requirements from the elicitation efforts and building the real stakeholder or solution requirements for the project. The project stakeholder states requirements during requirements elicitation. When the structured and collaborative requirements analysis efforts are completed, the needs of stakeholders are defined by the real requirements

Assumptions  Assumptions are things that are thought to be true, but not proven to be true. constraints A constraint is a must have - such as a deadline or a maximum budget. The Gane/Sarson data model The Gane/Sarson method identifies each node of the model and defines each component either in plain text or pseudocode. Process

A process is defined as a sequence of repeatable activities executed in an organization.

ERD Entity

In an entity-relationship diagram, entities are the things about which data is needed. Entities are represented in the labeled rectangle of the diagram

Requirements management plan

Requirements management plan defines the process that will be used to prioritize requirements during requirements analysis. It is built as a part of the business analysis planning and monitoring knowledge.

Modifiable requirements

Modifiable requirements are the requirements that are logically structured in a related group and can be changed. Related solution requirements must be grouped together in order for the requirements to be modifiable.

Scope modeling

Scope modeling organizes requirements based on the solution components to which they are related. Scope models are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. It serves up as a basis to define and delimit the scope of business analysis and project work.

Baseline

A baseline is a view of the reviewed and agreed-upon requirements at a particular point in time. It acts as a snapshot of the status and state of a project deliverable at a particular point in time.

Project manager

A project manager focuses on the deliverables that need to be part of the project plan so they can be tracked as milestones.

Approved requirements

The approved requirement is a subset of a specific requirements document, one or more graphical models, or a completed requirements document. Approved requirements are used in consequent business analysis or implementation efforts on the project.

Business rules analysis

Business rules analysis identifies changes in the policies that guide the organization towards achieving its goals and objectives.

Type

Area

Name Business need

Definition The business need defines the issues for which the business analyst is trying to find a solution. He should look at the business drivers and issues to determine if a change is required. The business analyst works as the master investigator, and verifies the business needs to ensure that the problems or opportunities are properly addressed.

The solution approach

The solution approach defines the methodology or development life cycle used to deliver the solution components. The business analyst is responsible for defining the solution approach.

Document analysis

Document analysis is used to elicit, confirm, and random check project requirements information by studying current documentation and other relevant information. These resources of information allow the business analyst to collect details of current solutions to observe whether they include usable components or should be changed for the proposed new solution.

The Solution Assessment and The Solution Assessment and Validation knowledge area ensures that the solution can be Validation knowledge area successfully implemented within the organization to achieve the business need that drives the project. The business analyst should have knowledge of the business environment and be able to assess how each of the project's proposed solutions affects that environment. He is also responsible for communicating solution requirements and implementation-specific information to the stakeholders.

Force field analysis

Force field analysis is a technique related with assessing organizational change readiness relative to deploying a new solution. It helps in evaluating the pros and cons of each significant change according to the solution. Force field analysis graphically describes the positive and negative forces that support or oppose a specific change. It includes the following steps: Identify the forces that are for or against the change; Depict the forces on each side of the line; Estimate the strength of each force.

Solution validation assessment

The solution validation assessment defines whether the constructed solution achieves the business and project requirements at an acceptable level of quality.

Expert judgment

Expert judgment evaluates and builds the optimal business analysis approach for the project. The team will rely on individuals or groups with specialized knowledge or skills in business analysis and other aspects of the domain in order to assist in defining the approach.

Type

Area

Name Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

Definition The Requirements Management plan that is built as part of the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area defines the project's approach to traceability. Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring helps in defining the tasks related with the planning and monitoring of business analysis activities, and with the monitoring and reporting on work executed to ensure that the business analysis effort generates the outcomes which meet stakeholder expectations and needs.

technique

assess organizational readiness

Criteria definition

The criteria definition is a tool and technique of assess organizational readiness, not an input to the task

technique

assess proposed solution process

Decision analysis

Decision analysis is a tool and technique that is used to assess proposed solution process. It allows measuring and comparing the probabilities of each identified solution result. This tool helps rank the identified solution.Good job, please continue to the 

technique

assessing an external vendor's 

Vendor assessment

Vendor assessment allows to assess an external vendor's ability in order to provide all or part of the solution. It helps in ensuring that the vendors are reliable and they can meet the expectations.

Definition

solution validation assessment 

solution validation assessment 

The solution validation assessment determines the solution's ability to meet the business need at an acceptable level of quality.Good job, please continue to the next question.

activities

Solution assessment and validation

Solution assessment and validation

You will complete six activities, they are: 1-Assessing the proposed solution,2-Allocating requirements,3-Assessing organizational readiness,4-Defining transition requirements,5Validating the solution,6-Evaluating solution performance

Front loading the project with Front loading the project with the riskiest requirements allows the requirements with the most the riskiest requirements risks the chance to fail before much time or money has been invested in the project work. allows  Business analysis planning and monitoring 

Business analysis planning and monitoring 

Business analysis planning and monitoring helps in defining the tasks related with the planning and monitoring of business analysis activities, and with the monitoring and reporting on work executed to ensure that the business analysis effort generates the outcomes which meet stakeholder expectations and needs.

business analysis approach

Change-driven

The change-driven approach looks to create business value in short iterations. The downside of this approach, however, is that there is more risk and uncertainty in the overall direction. The change-driven approach relies on team interaction to define requirements and gather feedback on the solution.

Type activities

Area document analysis

Name document analysis

Definition To conduct document analysis, you step through three stages: preparation, review, and wrapup. Preparation involves locating and evaluating the documents that are relevant to your planned elicitation activity. Document review has you studying those materials, identifying any relevant details, and documenting those details along with any questions you might have. Wrap-up allows you to get the answers to any questions you might have and confirm what you have discovered with your stakeholders.

Definition

document analysis

Preparation 

 Preparation involves locating and evaluating the documents that are relevant to your planned elicitation activity

Definition

document analysis

Document review 

studying the materials, identifying any relevant details, and documenting those details along with any questions you might have

Definition

document analysis

Wrap-up 

Wrap-up allows you to get the answers to any questions you might have and confirm what you have discovered with your stakeholders

Solution Approach

Defines the general approach that will be taken to create or acquire new capabilities required to meet the business need.The solution approach is a definition of the general approach the project should take to solve the identified problem or capture an opportunity.

enterprise analysis

Solution approach The business case, the business need, The required capabilities, And the solution scope.

Definition

activities

enterprise analysis

Definition

assessment of capability gap It identifies new capabilities required by the organization to meet the business need.The assessment of capability gaps is a business analysis task to identify new capabilities required in order to meet the business need.

Definition

regulatory ranking

prioritizing the requirements based on the requirements that must be implemented based on the regulatory demands.

Definition

Business constraint

A time limit, budget limit, limit on the number of resources, and other organizational restrictions are business constraints.

Definition

Scoring system

A scoring system can be used to assign a weight of value to the characteristics of each identified solution. Each solution is scored and the top-rated solutions are then investigated in greater detail.

Definition

Decision analysis

The decision analysis approach considers the available methodologies to make a determination of which of these techniques suits the type of project, solution, or opportunity that the business analyst is working with.

Definition

User classes, profiles, or roles User classes, profiles, or roles are the modeling techniques that show how the users will interact with the solution. The different types of users, profiles, and their work and interactions with the solution are studied.

Type Definition

Name RACI Charts

Definition It's a matrix that uses the Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed tasks as part of the stakeholder analysis process.The RACI chart is a matrix that can be used throughout the business analysis duties. It uses the legend of Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed to identify how the stakeholders interact with the business analysis duties.

Definition

Quality control

Quality control is a project management process that inspects the project deliverables for quality. Its goal is to identify defects so that corrective actions may be implemented.

Definition

Coverage matrix

A coverage matrix is a table used to manage tracing. It is ideal for smaller projects where there are few requirements to trace. It's also ideal for when only the high-level requirements need to be traced.

enterprise analysis

Enterprise analysis is primarily concerned with analyzing the business situation in order to fully understand business problems and opportunities. It's a business analysis process that identifies the problem, need, or opportunity and justifies the investment necessary to rectify the problem or seize the opportunity.

Definition

SMART

SMART is a goal-assessment approach that examines each goal using the letters in SMART for an analysis: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bounded.

Definition

business goals and objectives 

They describe the ends that the organization is seeking to achieve.Business goals and objectives clearly define the ends that the organization is seeking to achieve.

Definition

Rough order of magnitude cost estimating

The initial cost estimate is called the rough order of magnitude cost estimate. It is a high-level cost estimate that is fast to create but somewhat unreliable.

activities

business case

 business need, the assumptions and constraints, the stakeholder concerns, and the solution scope

activities

solution scope

The solution scope should identify several components in addition to the technical dependencies: features and functions, interactions with people and systems, involved business units, affected business processes, process owners, IT systems, and any other technology that may be affected by the solution

Definition

Vision statement

The vision statement, sometimes called a problem statement, defines the problem, the affected stakeholders of the problem, the impact of the solution for the stakeholder, and any relevant key benefits the solution will create.

Definition

Management horizon

is a term to describe the break-even point of the solution. Once a solution breaks even on costs, then it begins to generate a profit for the organization.

Definition Definition

Results measurements requirements management plan

Management is asking you to include a method for results measurement. The requirements management plan defines the process for prioritizing requirements.

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domain

is the area undergoing analysis.

Definition

Area

enterprise analysis

Type Definition

Area

Name solution

Definition is a set of changes to the current state of an organization that are made in order to enable that organization to meet a business need, solve a problem, or take advantage of an opportunity

Definition

Business Requirements

are higher-level statements of the goals, objectives, or needs of the enterprise. They describe the reasons why a project has been initiated

Definition

Stakeholder Requirements

statements of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders. They describe the needs that a given stakeholder has and how that stakeholder will interact with a solution.

Definition

Solution Requirements

describe the characteristics of a solution that meet business requirements and stakeholder requirements.

Definition

Functional Requirements

describe the behavior and information that the solution will manage. They describe capabilities the system will be able to perform in terms of behaviors or operations—specific information technology application actions or responses.

Definition

Non-functional Requirements capture conditions that do not directly relate to the behavior or functionality of the solution, but rather describe environmental conditions under which the solution must remain effective or qualities that the systems must have.

Definition

Transition Requirements

describe capabilities that the solution must have in order to facilitate transition from the current state of the enterprise to a desired future state, but that will not be needed once that transition is complete.

Definition

Business Analysis Business Analysis Planning Planning and Monitoring and Monitoring

covers how business analysts determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort. It covers identification of stakeholders, selection of business analysis techniques, the process that will be used to manage requirements, and how to assess the progress of the work. The tasks in this knowledge area govern the performance of all other business analysis tasks.

Definition

Elicitation

Elicitation

describes how business analysts work with stakeholders to identify and understand their needs and concerns, and understand the environment in which they work. The purpose of elicitation is to ensure that a stakeholder’s actual underlying needs are understood, rather than their stated or superficial desires

Definition

Requirements Management and Communication

Requirements Management and Communication

describes how business analysts manage 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 knowledge gained by the business analyst is maintained for future use.

Definition

Enterprise Analysis

Enterprise Analysis

describes how business analysts identify a business need, refine and clarify the definition of that need, and define a solution scope that can feasibly be implemented by the business. This knowledge area describes problem definition and analysis, business case development, feasibility studies, and the definition of solution scope.

Type Definition

Area Requirements Analysis

Name Requirements Analysis

Definition describes how business analysts prioritize and progressively elaborate stakeholder and solution requirements in order to enable the project team to implement a solution that will meet the needs of the sponsoring organization and stakeholders. It 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.

Definition

Solution Assessment and Validation

Solution Assessment and Validation

describes how business analysts assess proposed solutions to determine which solution best fits the business need, identify gaps and shortcomings in solutions, and determine necessary workarounds or changes to the solution. It also describes how business analysts assess deployed solutions to see how well they met the original need so that the sponsoring organization can assess the performance and effectiveness of the solution.

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Underlying Competencies

Underlying Competencies

describes the behaviors, knowledge, and other characteristics that support the effective performance of business analysis

Definition

task

A task is an essential piece of work that must be performed as part of business analysis.

Definition

input output

represents the information and preconditions necessary for a task to begin. An output is a necessary result of the work described in the task. Outputs are created, transformed or change state as a result of the successful completion of a task. Although a particular output is created and maintained by a single task, a task can have multiple outputs.

Definition

Classification Requirements [State or States].

define what type of requrment is this business,enterprise,stakeholder and define the state fo that requirment. If no classification or states are listed, any or all requirements may be used as an input or output

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Stakeholders

Each task includes a listing of generic stakeholders who are likely to participate in the execution of that task or who will be affected by it.

Definition

Stakeholders

business analyst

stakeholder in all business analysis activities.is responsible and accountable for the execution of these activities. In some cases, the business analyst may also be responsible for the performance of activities that fall under another stakeholder role.

Definition

Stakeholders

customer

is a stakeholder outside the boundary of a given organization or organizational unit. Customers make use of products or services produced by the organization and may have contractual or moral rights that the organization is obliged to meet.

Definition

Stakeholders

domain subject matter expert is any individual with in-depth knowledge of a topic relevant to the business need or solution (SME) scope. This role is often filled by people who will also be end users or people who will be indirect users of the solution

Definition

Stakeholders

End users

are stakeholders who will directly interact with the solution. The term is most frequently used in a software development context

Type Definition

Area Stakeholders

Name Implementation domain subject matter expert (SME)

Definition responsible for designing and implementing potential solutions. The implementation subject matter experts will provide specialist expertise on the design and construction of the solution components that fall outside the scope of business analysis.

Definition

Stakeholders

Organizational Change Management Professionals

are responsible for facilitating acceptance and adoption of new solutions and overcoming resistance to change. Areas of expertise among change management professionals include industry and cultural expertise. Good change management can help to create advocates for change within an organization.

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Stakeholders

System Architects

are responsible for dividing a software application into components and defining the interactions between them. Areas of expertise among system architects include understanding of methodologies and of solutions offered by specific vendorsGood system architecture will facilitate rapid development of solutions and reuse of components in other solutions.

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Stakeholders

Trainers

Trainers are responsible for ensuring that the end users of a solution understand how it is supposed to work and are able to use it effectively. Areas of expertise among trainers may include classroom-based or online education

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Stakeholders

Usability Professionals

Usability professionals are responsible for the external interaction design of technology solutions and for making those solutions as simple to use as is feasible. Areas of expertise among usability professionals include user interface designers and information architects

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Stakeholders

Project managers

are responsible for managing the work required to deliver a solution that meets a business need, and for ensuring that the project’s objectives are met while balancing the project constraints, including scope, budget, schedule, resources, quality, risk, and others.

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Stakeholders

Testers

are responsible for determining how to verify that the solution meets the solution requirements defined by the business analyst, as well as conducting the verification process. Testers also seek to ensure that the solution meets applicable quality standards and that the risk of defects of failures is understood and minimized.

Definition

Stakeholders

Regulators

are responsible for the definition and enforcement of standards. Standards may be those that the team developing the solution is required to follow, standards the solution must meet, or both. Regulators may enforce legislation, corporate governance standards, audit standards, or standards defined by organizational centers of competency.

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Stakeholders

Sponsors

is a stakeholder outside the boundary of a given organization or organizational unit. Suppliers provide products or services to the organization and may have contractual or moral rights and obligations that must be considered.

Type Definition

Area

Name Techniques

Definition Techniques provide additional information on different ways that a task may be performed or different forms the output of the task may take. A task may have none, one, or more related techniques. A technique must be related to at least one task.