Chapter 2: Business Analysis Key Concepts

1. 1.Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM):

-        Business Analysis Core Concept Model is the conceptual work for the business analysis

It shows what business analyst is and what is mean to perform business tasks based on perspective, industry, methodologies or level in the organization

• Describe the profession and domain of business analysis
• Communicate about business analysis
• Evaluate the relationship
• Perform better business analysis by evaluating the six concepts
• Evaluate the impact these concepts

1. 2 Key Term:

·        Business Analyst: define business analysis and enable change in an enterprise by defining the objectives, know the needs and provide the solutions to the stakeholder

·        Business Analysis Information: refer to a source of information that will be analyzed, transformed and written report

·        Design: is used for the representation of the solution and focus on understanding the value might be affected

·        Enterprise: is a system of one or more organization and the solution. Also used for sharing common goals

·        Organization: a group of people under management or individual, and work for common goals and objectives

·        Plan: is a proposal that is used for planning or achieving something

·        Requirement: is used for the representation of a need

·        Risk: is the effect of uncertainty on the value of change or need

1. 3.      Requirement Classification Schema:

·        Business requirement: statement of goals, objectives and outcomes

·        Stakeholder requirements: describe the need of stakeholder to achieve the goals

·        Solution requirements: describe the capabilities and qualities of a solution

·        Functional requirements: describe the capabilities that a solution must have in term of the information

·        Non-functional requirements or quality of service requirements: describe conditions under which a solution must remain effective or qualities that a solution must have

·        Transition requirements: describe the capabilities that solution must have and conditions the solution must meet in order to facilitate transition from the current state to the future state

1. 4.      Stakeholders:

-    A stakeholder is an individual or a group of people that the business analyst is to interact with

-    The list of stakeholders includes:

o   Business Analyst: is inherently a stakeholder in all business analysis activities

o   Customers: use or may use product or services produced by the enterprise

o   Domain subject matter expert: is individual who have in-depth knowledge in the business needs and provide the solution

o   End user: are stakeholders who interact with the solution

o   Implementation subject matter expert: is a stakeholder who can specialized knowledge as the implementation of the solution

o   Operational support: is responsible for management and maintain the system or product

o   Project manager: is responsible for managing the work, also deliver a solution, try to meet all the needs and make sure the objective of the project

o   Regulator: is responsible for definition of standards

o   Sponsor: is responsible for initiating the effort to define a business need and develop a solution that meets the need

o   Supplier: provide the products or service to the organization

o   Tester: is responsible for testing that the solution meets the requirements defined by the business analyst

1. 5.      Requirement and design:

-  Requirements are focused on the need, designs are focused on the solution

-  The difference between requirements and designs are not always clear

-  A requirement may be used to define a design and the design may be then used to elicit additional requirements that are used to define more detailed design.