4. Tasks and Knowledge Areas
E) Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
The Business Analysis Standard
This knowledge area describes the tasks that business analysis professionals perform to structure and organize requirements discovered during elicitation activities, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.
BACCM™ for Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
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Business Analysis Tasks |
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Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving, Business Knowledge, and Communication Skills are competencies needed for Analysis and Design tasks. See: BABOK Guide v3, 9.1 Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving and BABOK Guide v3, 9.3 Business Knowledge, and BABOK Guide v3, 9.4 Communication Skills |
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Input and Output Relationships
Specify and Model Requirements and Designs
To analyze, synthesize, and refine elicitation results into requirements and designs.
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Verify Requirements and Designs
To ensure that requirements and designs specifications and models meet quality standards and are usable for the purpose they serve.
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Validate Requirements and Designs
To ensure that all requirements and designs align with the business requirements and support the delivery of needed value.
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Define Requirements Architecture
To ensure that the requirements and designs collectively support one another to achieve the objectives fully.
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Define Design Options
To define the solution approach, identify opportunities to improve the business, allocate requirements across solution components, and represent design options that achieve the desired future state.
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Analyze Potential Value and Recommend Solution
To estimate the potential value for each design option and to establish which one is most appropriate to meet the enterprise’s requirements.
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