Posts Tagged ‘ba’

The BABOK: Requirements Analysis

This is the sixth post in the Beachcamp series. In this post, we discuss requirements analysis and provide a visual map showing what’s involved in it.

Beachcamp day 6
Requirements Analysis focuses on organising the gathered requirements, prioritising them to ensure that the …

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The BABOK: Requirements Management and Communication

This is the fifth post in the Beachcamp series. In this post we talk about requirements management and communication and provide a visual map of the relevant section of the BABOK.

Beachcamp day 5
Requirements Management focuses on applying the requirements management plan …

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The BABOK: Requirements Elicitation

This is the fourth post in the Beachcamp series, discussing requirements elicitation. It includes a visual map of the requirements elicitation section.

Beachcamp day 4
Requirements Elicitation focuses on the business analyst’s interaction with stakeholders and facilitation of their engagement in the articulation …

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The BABOK: Enterprise Analysis

This is the third post in the Beachcamp series. This post is about the Enterprise Analysis section of the BABOK.

Beach Camp day 3

Enterprise Analysis (EA) focuses on several areas:

- identification of the business need
- understanding of the …

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The BABOK: Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

This is the second post in the Beachcamp series. This post is about the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring section of the BABOK.

Beach Camp day 2

The Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area needs to be …

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The structure of the BABOK knowledge areas

We are starting a series of posts to illustrate the structure of the BABOK, and the interconnections between the different knowledge areas within it, and the links between the elements within knowledge areas.

Beach Camp 1
It’s almost summer here in New Zealand, …

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Incorporating lessons learned into BA activities with BA Lifecycle

We have published Business Analysis Lifecycle, a whitepaper which introduces the concept of BA lifecycle in order to ensure that lessons learned are incorporated into all BA activities.

Business analysis as a discipline is maturing at a good pace. Many organizations operating in fast changing environments recognize the importance of the business …

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More ITIL information in Business Analysis Kickstart

As I mentioned in the previous post, we’ve added more information about ITIL to Business Analysis Kickstart because ITIL provides a very useful way of looking at the IT infrastructure and extracting valuable information from it. We talk about the ITIL framework, service strategy, service design, service transition, service operation and finally incident management.

We …

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Applying ITIL for better insight into IT infrastructure

This is a short post to share an idea we’ve come up with. We’ll publish a longer article once we work things out in detail, but we thought that it would be useful to talk about the idea right now.

When you’re working to fulfil a business need, it most likely involves both process changes and …

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX): Business Analysis Perspective

This post discusses what business analysts can learn from the Sarbanes Oxley Act requirements for the purposes of establishing an effective internal control system within the enterprise.

Meeting the financial auditing and reporting requirements of SOX is a challenge for publicly traded companies. While SOX mostly applies to the companies …

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