Changing Change.

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BABOK Guide Version 3

IIBA Australia PD Days 2013

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About Me
Kevin Brennan, CBAP
CHIEF BUSINESS ANALYST & EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

Responsible for
Publications and Standards
Chapters
Online Communities
Enterprise Business Analysis
Research
Joined IIBA in 2003, Member #42, CBAP #61
15 years of business analysis experience
Led development of BABOK Guide version 2
Board Member of FEAPO (Federation of
Enterprise Architecture Professional
Associations) and Benefit Corporation
Standards Institute (BCSI)
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Versions 1.0 to 2.0

BABOK

The
Guide was
developed from 20042009.

Anything Here May Change!

This represents the current state and plans for
version 3 at the time this presentation was
delivered. Research and feedback will change
these plans...

Why a Version 3?

Keep the BABOK Guide current

Incorporate things we learned since v2 came
out
Make it applicable in more situations
Improve theoretical underpinnings and models
Improve understanding
Help BAs do their jobs
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Business Analysis Definition (v2)

Business analysis is the set of tasks and techniques used to
work as a liaison among stakeholders to understand the
structure, policies, and operations of an organization &
recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve
its goals.

Business Analysis Definition (v3)

Business analysis is the practice of enabling change
in an organizational context by defining needs and
recommending solutions that deliver value to
stakeholders.

Business Analysis Definition (v3)

Business analysis is the practice of enabling change
in an organizational context by defining needs and
recommending solutions that deliver value to
stakeholders.

BA Core Concepts

Business Analysis
is the practice
of...

enabling change...

Changes are any

controlled
transformation of
an organizational
system.

in an organizational
context...

Contexts are
the part of the
environment that
encompasses a
change.

by defining needs...

Needs are
problems,
opportunities or
constraints with
potential value to
a stakeholder.

& recommending solutions...

Solutions are
specific ways of
satisfying needs
in a context.

that deliver value...

Value is the
importance of
something to a
stakeholder in a
context.

to stakeholders.

Stakeholders are
groups or
individuals with a
relationship to
the change or to
the solution.


BABOK

v3 Knowledge Areas
Business Analysis
Planning & Monitoring

Situation
Analysis

Elicitation &
Collaboraton

Requirements Analysis
& Design Definition

Solution Evaluation

Underlying
Competencies

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Requirements Life
Cycle Management

Whats New: Business Analysis

Planning and Monitoring
BA services

Stakeholders expect activities, information,

recommendations to make informed
decisions or take actions

Risk-based

BA approach is to respond to risks

Analyst, stakeholders, domain, and method/
approach risks

Coordination
of BA plans

The need and effort involved in aggregating

plans with other plans and those of other
agents
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Whats New: Elicitation and

Collaboration
Name changed

Needed to emphasize the BAs role in

collaboration

More depth

V2 lacked much depth in the content

Not just
requirements

Elicitation is used to identify all types of

BA Information

Separate key
activities

You might not prepare to elicit

You might elicit and do nothing with it
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Whats New: Requirements Life

Cycle Management
Name changed

Requirements management is ongoing

Requirements have their own lifecycle

Separate key
activities

Approval and Scope Management are

very different activities

Prioritization

Understanding stakeholders view of value

Communication

It needs to be collaborative instead of one

way
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Whats New: Situation Analysis

New KA!

New focus

Replaces EA from v2 completely

created from scratch

Change strategies are a core part of a

business model.
KA focus is to support organizational
change
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Whats New: Requirements

Analysis and Design Definition
Name changed

Explicitly state that BAs are

involved in design definition
and solution recommendation

Moved some
SAV tasks in

Proposed solution assessment

activities are now included
Encompasses activities before
any construction of a solution
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Whats New: Solution Evaluation

Name
changed
Value
focus

Less focus on implementing a

solution

Evaluating whether the solution

delivers the value
Identify impediments to doing so
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Perspectives

Different approaches
to controlled
organizational change
Sets of behaviors,
terminology, and
attitudes used by
a stakeholder within
a context.

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Business Systems Analysis

Agile

Enterprise Architecture

Business Process Analysis

Decisions, Data, Rules, and BI

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