BA Key Concepts (5%) Flashcards
What is Business Analysis Core Concept Model™ (BACCM™) ?
A conceptual framework for the business analysis profession.
What are the 6 core concepts in the BACCM ?
Change, Need, Solution, Stakeholder, Value, and Context.
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What is a “Change” ?
The act of transformation in response to a need.
Change works to improve the performance of an enterprise.
These improvements are deliberate and controlled through business analysis activities.
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What is a “Need” ?
A problem or opportunity to be addressed.
Needs can cause changes by motivating stakeholders to act.
Changes can also cause needs by eroding or enhancing the value delivered by existing solutions.
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What is “Solution” ?
A specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context.
A solution satisfies a need by resolving a problem faced by stakeholders or enabling stakeholders to take advantage of an opportunity.
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What is a “Stakeholder” ?
A group or individual with a relationship to the change, the need, or the solution.
Stakeholders are often defined in terms of interest in, impact on, and influence over the change. Stakeholders are grouped based on their relationship to the needs, changes, and solutions.
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What is “Value” ?
The worth, importance, or usefulness of something to a stakeholder within a context.
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What is “Context” ?
The circumstances that influence, are influenced by, and provide understanding of the change.
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What is “Business Analysis”
The practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
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What is “Business Analysis Information”
The broad and diverse sets of information that business analysts analyze, transform, and report.
It is information of any kind—at any level of detail—that is used as an input to, or is an output of, business analysis work.
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What is a “Design”
A design is a usable representation of a solution.
Design focuses on understanding how value might be realized by a solution if it is built.
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What is an “Enterprise”
A system of one or more organizations and the solutions they use to pursue a shared set of common goals.
For the purpose of business analysis, enterprise boundaries can be defined relative to the change and need not be constrained by the boundaries of a legal entity, organization, or organizational unit. An enterprise may include any number of business, government, or any other type of organization.
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What is an “Oranization”
An autonomous group of people under the management of a single individual or board, that works towards common goals and objectives.
Organizations often have a clearly defined boundary and operate on a continuous basis, as opposed to an initiative or project team, which may be disbanded once its objectives are achieved.
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What is a “Plan”
A set of events, the dependencies among the events, the expected sequence, the schedule, the results or outcomes, the materials and resources needed, and the stakeholders involved.
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What is a “Requirement”
A usable representation of a need.
Requirements focus on understanding what kind of value could be delivered if a requirement is fulfilled.
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What is a “Business Analyst” ?
Any person who performs business analysis tasks described in the BABOK® Guide.
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What is a “Risk”
The effect of uncertainty on the value of a change, a solution, or the enterprise.
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What is a “Business Requirements” ?
Statements of goals, objectives, and outcomes that describe why a change has been initiated.
They can apply to the whole of an enterprise, a business area, or a specific initiative.
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What is a “Stakeholder Requirements” ?
The needs of stakeholders that must be met in order to achieve the business requirements.
They may serve as a bridge between business and solution requirements.
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What is a “Solution Requirements” ?
The capabilities and qualities of a solution that meets the stakeholder requirements.
They provide the appropriate level of detail to allow for the development and implementation of the solution.
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What are the 2 types of “Solution Requirements” ?
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements (quality of service requirements)
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What is a”Functional Requirements” ?
The capabilities that a solution must have in terms of the behaviour and information that the solution will manage.
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What is a “Non-Fuctional requirements” (or quality of service requirements) ?
Conditions under which a solution must remain effective or qualities that a solution must have.
Non-Fuctional requirements do not relate directly to the behaviour of functionality of the solution.
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What is a “Transition Requirements” ?
The capabilities that the solution must have and the conditions the solution must meet to facilitate transition from the current state to the future state, but which are not needed once the change is complete.
