Empower Your BA Capability 

Empower Your BA Capability 

11 November 2020

Strategy Analysis

The Strategy Analysis knowledge area of BABOK focuses on understanding why a change is needed and defining activities that an organization has to undertake to implement it successfully. Because of this focus, the outputs of Strategy Analysis provide context for all other activities in the framework.
17 November 2020

Business value streams and capabilities

To produce solutions that bring value to an organization requires that the agile team have a basic understanding of the business architecture. Agile teams, through their deliverables, impact business architecture elements such as business capabilities and business value streams. Let us take a look at what these elements are, and why an agile team should care about them.
3 December 2020

Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

The Requirements Analysis and Design Definition knowledge area focuses on processing business analysis information obtained from the Elicitation and Collaboration knowledge area. Business Analysts can perform these information processing tasks as a one-time activity or incrementally and iteratively depending on the selected business analysis approach.
7 December 2020

Solution Evaluation

The last knowledge area in the BABOK® framework is called Solution Evaluation. Its main focus is on assessing the (completely or partially) delivered solution's value and performance. If there are any obstacles or unnecessary constraints, a Business Analyst should identify them and try to remove them to increase the solution value.
8 January 2021

5 practices for better requirements

Writing requirements is not an easy task. It requires discipline and preparation, especially if you define requirements in a natural language. Many professionals dislike this activity and perceive it as dull and tedious. Ivy Hooks discussed this phenomenon and listed improvements that an organization can pursue to change this situation.