Project Initiation Flashcards
Question 1 and 2 of 5
What are the major problems you are experiencing? How often do they occur?
Question 3 of 5
What opportunities are we missing?
Question 4 and 5 of 5
What are the costs and benefits of a change? What are the risks?
What are business requirements?
Highest level requirements during the enterprise analysis activities. To define a solution business requirements will be further elaborated and decomposed into the next level of detail - that is - the stakeholder requirements
What are stakeholder requirements?
These are high level user requirements.
They bridge the gap between Business Requirements and Solution Requirements.
They are developed as part of the tasks found in the Requirements Analysis knowledge area.
What are solution requirements?
Most detailed type of requirement.
Describes the characteristics the solution requires to meet the Business and Stakeholder Requirements.
Divided into 2 types of requirements:
a) functional and
b) non-functional requirements.
What are functional requirements?
Functional requirements define the capabilities that a product must provide to its users. They are a subset of the Solution Requirements that are developed for the project.
What are non-functional requirements?
Non-functional requirements describe the 1) quality attributes 2) design and implementation constraints and 3) external interfaces that the product must have.
They are a subset of the solution requirements that are developed for the project.
They constrain and bind the functional requirements is some way.
What are transition requirements?
They describe the solution capabilities required to transition from the current to the future state and are no longer needed once the transition is complete.
They are developed and designed as part of the tasks contained in the Solution Assessment and Validation knowledge area.
What is Business Analysis?
It is a distinct discipline focusing on identifying business needs, problems, and opportunities, and on determining the appropriate solutions to address them.
“the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.”
Weese, Susan; Wagner, Terri. CBAP / CCBA Certified Business Analysis Study Guide (Kindle Locations 988-989). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
What does a business analyst do?
1) Liaises and communicates with project stakeholders.
2) Elicits, analyzes, and validates project requirements for changes to business process, policies, and information systems.
3) Understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements.
4) Recommends solutions enabling the organization to achieve its goals
Weese, Susan; Wagner, Terri. CBAP / CCBA Certified Business Analysis Study Guide (Kindle Locations 1006-1009). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
What are the essential skill sets of a business analyst?
1) Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
2) Behavioral characteristics
3) Business knowledge
4) Software knowledge
5) Interaction skills
6) Communication skills
Weese, Susan; Wagner, Terri. CBAP / CCBA Certified Business Analysis Study Guide (Kindle Locations 1058-1063). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
What are the 5 w’s?
Who What Where When Why
What is a communications plan?
StakeholderDeliverableFrequencyOwnerPriority***Preferred Way to Deliver
