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Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring consists of? |
The tasks and outputs for, - planning & organizing requirements activities - monitor business analysis work to ensure it produces desired outcomes. |
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Goal of BAPM? |
Organize requirements effort including - resources - monitoring - project coordination & - managing changes |
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BAPM themes |
- Understand stakeholders - Consider the life cycle approach - Plan requirements management |
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Tasks of Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring |
- Plan business analysis approach - Conduct stakeholder analysis - Plan business analysis activities - Plan business analysis communication - Plan requirements management process - Manage business analysis performance |
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Inputs for Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring |
- Business need - Expert judgement - Enterprise architecture - Organizational process assets - Business analysis performance metrics |
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Outputs of Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring |
- Business analysis approach - Stakeholder list, roles & responsibilities - Business analysis plan(s) - Business analysis communication plan - Requirements management plan - Business analysis performance assessment - Business analysis process assets |
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Inputs for Plan Business Analysis Approach task? |
- Business need - Expert judgement - Organizational process assets |
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Key Elements of Plan Business Analysis Approach task? |
1. Methodologies Available - Waterfall, agile, lean and six sigma 2. Organizational need and objectives 3. Standards in place 4. Project approach. - Plan driven (Waterfall) - Change driven (agile)
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Techniques involved in Plan Business Analysis Approach task? |
- Decision analysis - Process modelling - Structured walk-through |
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Inputs for Conduct Stakeholder Analysis task? |
- Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets |
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Key Elements as part of Conduct Stakeholder Analysis task? |
- Identify Stakeholders - Complexity of stakeholder group i.e. - Number of stakeholders - Number of interfacing business processes and automated systems - Attitude and Influence - Authority levels for BA work |
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Techniques involved in Conduct Stakeholder Analysis task? |
- Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brain Storming - Interviews - Organizational Modelling - Process Modelling - Scope Modelling - Requirements Workshops - Risk Analysis - Survey or Questionnaire - Scenarios / Use Cases - User Stories - RACI matrix - Stakeholder Map |
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What is RACI matrix? |
A matrix that captures major stakeholders roles & responsibilities |
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What is Stakeholder Map? |
A visual diagram showing the relationships between the stakeholders. |
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Key elements of Plan Business Analysis Task? |
- Geographical distribution of stakeholders - Collocated - Dispersed - Type of project or initiative - Business analysis deliverable(s) - Determine business analysis activities |
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Inputs for Plan Business Analysis task? |
- Business analysis approach. - Stakeholder list, roles and responsibilities - Business analysis performance assessment - Organizational process assets |
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Techniques involved in Plan Business Analysis task? |
- Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis |
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What is WBS? |
A project planning technique, which hierarchically breaks down the deliverable(s) and tasks of project into manageable pieces. |
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What is activity list? |
A list of activities needed to produce the deliverable(s) in a project |
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What is functional decomposition? |
A technique to break down the deliverable(s) of a project into activities and tasks to accomplish them. |
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Major aspects of Plan Business Analysis Activities are? |
- Determine the deliverable(s) and the BA work that must be done (tasks / activities) to be performed - Estimate the effort for tasks identified - Identify management tools to monitor the progress of deliverable(s) and activities. |
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Inputs for Plan Business Analysis Communication Task? |
- Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan(s) - Stakeholder list, roles and responsibilities - Organizational process assets |
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Key Elements of Plan Business Analysis Communication Task? |
- Geography - Culture - Project Type - Communication Frequency - Communication Formality |
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What is a requirements package? |
A comprehensive requirements document used for presentation to stakeholder(s). Groups all related requirements documents together. |
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Key considerations while developing Business Analysis Communication Plan |
- Geographic Location - Communication Preferences - Types of Communication - Types of requirements to be elicited - Conduct requirements reviews - Time & Resource constraints |
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Major components of a Business Analysis Communication Plan? |
- Who - Who is the recipient - How - What is the appropriate delivery method - What - What information needs to be communicated - When - When should the information be communicated. |
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Techniques of Plan Business Analysis Communication Task |
- Structured Walk-through |
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Define Structured Walk-through? |
- A technique or a formal way of communicating, reviewing and validating the requirements |
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Major aspects of Plan Requirements Management Process? |
- Approval of the requirements - Managing changes to the requirements - Traceability |
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Inputs for Plan Requirements Management Process? |
- Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan(s) - Organizational Process Assets |
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Key Elements of Plan Requirements Management Process? |
- Repository - Traceability - Select Requirements Attributes - Requirements Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process. |
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Techniques involved as part of Plan Requirements Management Task? |
- Decision Analysis - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis |
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What are the various requirements attributes? |
- Complexity - how hard the requirement is to be implemented - Absolute Reference - Unique identifier for the requirement & it should not be altered even if the requirement moves, changes or gets deleted. - Risks - Risks associated i.e. Risks of meeting or not meeting the requirement - Author - Who documented the requirement. to refer in case if the requirement found to be ambiguous. - Source - Who gave the requirements. There should always be a source for the requirement with an authority to specify and approve the requirements. - Status - What is the current status of the requirement - Ownership - Individual or group needed the requirements - Urgency - By when the requirement is needed i.e. deadline - Priority - Order of implementation i.e. which requirements are to be implemented first, based on the importance of stakeholders - Stability - How matured the requirement is? |
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What is traceability? |
The ability to track a requirement through the development life-cycle. It should be bi-directional i.e. the possibility to track the requirement back to business need and forward through implementation. |
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Define Attributes? |
Provides useful management information about the requirements. |
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What is repository? |
A place or method to store and retrieve the information. May be short-term or long-term. |
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Inputs for Manage Business Analysis Performance Task? |
- Business Analysis Plan(s) - Requirements Management Plan. - Organizational Performance Standards - Business Analysis Performance Metrics |
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Key Elements of Manage Business Analysis Performance task? |
- Performance Measures - Performance Reporting - Preventive and Corrective Actions |
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Techniques involved in Manage Business Analysis Performance Task? |
- Interviews - Lessons Learnt - Measures and Key Performance Indicators. - Problem Tracking - Process Modelling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey / Questionnaire - Variance Analysis |
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What is the output of Manage Business Analysis Performance Task? |
- Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets |
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What is Preventive Action? |
A proactive change to prevent a possible problem from occurring. |
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What is Corrective Action? |
A change made to address a problem indicated through performance or other measures |
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What is variance? |
The difference between planned, budgeted or expected and the actual result. |
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What is metric? |
A standard of measurement. Often associated with a goal or performance of something. |
