Business Analysis

Strategy Analysis. Collaborate with stakeholders to identify a business need, define how to address that need, and determine how to implement the resulting strategy. Focus areas include:  

• Current-state analysis. 
• Future-state analysis. 
• Policy analysis. 
• Project risk analysis. 

Planning and Monitoring. Organize and coordinate efforts to create activity guidelines and to accomplish project tasks. Focus areas include:  

• Business analysis approach. 
• Business analysis governance. 
• Information management. 
• Stakeholder engagement. 

Elicitation and Collaboration. Gather crucial information from stakeholders in a variety of ways to create project success criteria. Focus areas include:  

• Artifact analysis. 
• Process modeling. 
• Requirements elicitation. 
• Stakeholder communication and collaboration. 

Requirements Analysis and Solution Design. Structure and organize project requirements, from initial concept through recommended solution. Focus areas include:  

• Design options and recommendations. 
• Requirements architecture. 
• Requirements modeling and specification. 
• Requirements verification and validation. 

Requirements Life Cycle Management. Keep stakeholder and solution requirements aligned, from project start to finish. Focus areas include:  

• Requirements management. 
• Requirements reporting. 
• Requirements traceability. 

Solution Evaluation. Assess the project solution’s performance and recommend how to get more value from the solution. Focus areas include:  

• Solution improvement recommendations. 
• Solution limitation analysis. 
• Solution performance analysis. 
• Value and solution analysis.