Stakeholder Collaboration: Inputs and Elements Stakeholder Collaboration inputs and Elements After completing this topic, you should be able to identify inputs and elements used in managing stakeholder collaboration. The purpose of managing stakeholder collaboration is to ensure that they work as a team toward a common goal and reach consensus. The Business analyst will use the Stakeholder Engagement approach and Business Analyze performance Assessments in order to complete the task of managing stakeholder collaboration, which is continuous throughout the business analysis effort. The output is an engaged stakeholder group. The…

Exercise: Confirming Elicitation Results Exercise Confirming Elicitation Results after completing this topic, you should be able to demonstrate your understanding of the task techniques and roles involved in confirming elicitation results. In this exercise, therefore, you are required to demonstrate your understanding of the task techniques and and roles involved in conforming elicitation results. There are several tasks involved in conforming elicitation results identifying tasks involved in confirming elicitation results, identifying techniques and guidelines involved in confirming elicitation results, and finally, identifying the stakeholder roles involved in confirming elicitation results….

Conduct Elicitation: Stakeholders and Outputs Conduct elicitation Stakeholders and Outputs after completing this topic, you should be able to distinguish between the roles of stakeholders involved in conducting elicitation. As mentioned earlier, the domain subject matter expert has relevant expertise or knowledge in the area under analyzes. He or she assists in locating information sources and will work with others in their respective departments to arrange research and experiments. Along with the business analyst, the implementation subject matter expert has specialized knowledge, including the one in the area of information…

Prepare for Elicitation: Guidelines and Techniques Prepare for elicitation guidelines and techniques. After completing this topic, you should be able to recognize guidelines and techniques used to prepare for elicitation. The business analysis approach provides general guidance on elicitation. Methods that should align to the project method are either predictive or adaptive. As you progress your elicitation activities, their approach may change. New stakeholders may be identified in other requirements sessions. Timelines may shift based on stakeholder availability. The format used for elicitation activities should align to project methodology and…

Verify Requirements: Tools and Techniques Verify requirements, tools and Techniques after completing this topic, you should be able to recognize activities related to verifying requirements. The Business Analyst uses requirements lifecycle management tools to verify requirements. They include repositories and checklists tools, ensure requirements are atomic, unambiguous, and prioritized. Acceptance and evaluation criteria ensures clearly stated and testable requirements. Item tracking is used by the Business Analyst to manage and resolve problems and issues. Metrics and Key Performance Indicators are used to identify and evaluate if a requirement is of…

Specify and Model Requirements: Inputs and Elements Specify and model requirements, inputs and elements. After completing this topic, you should be able to recognize considerations that are relevant when modeling and analyzing requirements. The purpose of specify and model requirements is to take elicitation results, amalgamate the them, analyze them, model, and organize the information into requirements and designs. This is a primary activity of business analysis. Elicitation results are obtained through various requirements discovery techniques. Once the information is gathered, it is confirmed and ready to be analyzed. The…

Section Overview In this course, we are going to examine the ongoing process of elicitation and collaboration and find out how business analysts identify and reach agreements with stakeholders on requirements. The task in this knowledge area describe how you, as a business analyst reach a mutual understanding of various types of business. Analyzes information with stakeholders. The activities associated with this task include workshops, surveys and ad hoc collaboration, but also conversations. The first part of the course, called Elicitation and Collaboration covers the following topics an overview of…

Define Change Strategy: Inputs and Elements Define change strategy inputs and elements. After completing this topic, you should be able to recognize relevant considerations when developing the change strategy. The purpose of the change strategy is to define optional solutions and propose alternative approaches to manage the change. The inputs include Stakeholder Engagement approach, current state descriptions, the future state descriptions, and risk analyze results. The task itself is to define the change strategy. The outputs include the change strategy and the solution scope. The stakeholder Engagement approach provides inputs…

Exercise: Define Current and Future States Exercise define current and future States after completing this topic, you should be able to recognize what’s involved in analyzing current state and defining future state. This involves the following task recognizing issues around current state analyzes data business Analysis analysts must consider recognizing the guidelines and techniques used in analyzing current state recognizing how stakeholders contribute to develop of the outputs of current state analyzes recognizing considerations when defining future state and finally, recognizing how guidelines and techniques are used when defining future…

Analyse Current State: Guidelines and Techniques Analyzing Current states guidelines and Techniques After completing this topic, you should be able to recognize the guidelines and techniques used in analyzing the current state. The following are guidelines and tools and a description of how the guideline or tool supports the current state analyzes. The business analyzed approach takes into consideration if the method used is predictive or adaptive. This will drive the formality of current state analysis. In an adaptive approach, only enough effort is required to describe the current state…