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Product Ownership Analysis
Preface
10. Techniques
Introduction 10.1 Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria 10.2 Backlog Management 10.3 Balanced Scorecard 10.4 Benchmarking and Market Analysis 10.5 Brainstorming 10.6 Business Capability Analysis 10.7 Business Cases 10.8 Business Model Canvas 10.9 Business Rules Analysis 10.10 Collaborative Games 10.11 Concept Modelling 10.12 Data Dictionary 10.13 Data Flow Diagrams 10.14 Data Mining 10.15 Data Modelling 10.16 Decision Analysis 10.17 Decision Modelling 10.18 Document Analysis 10.19 Estimation 10.20 Financial Analysis 10.21 Focus Groups 10.22 Functional Decomposition 10.23 Glossary 10.24 Interface Analysis 10.25 Interviews 10.26 Item Tracking 10.27 Lessons Learned 10.28 Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 10.29 Mind Mapping 10.30 Non-Functional Requirements Analysis 10.31 Observation 10.32 Organizational Modelling 10.33 Prioritization 10.34 Process Analysis 10.35 Process Modelling 10.36 Prototyping 10.37 Reviews 10.38 Risk Analysis and Management 10.39 Roles and Permissions Matrix 10.40 Root Cause Analysis 10.41 Scope Modelling 10.42 Sequence Diagrams 10.43 Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas 10.44 State Modelling 10.45 Survey or Questionnaire 10.46 SWOT Analysis 10.47 Use Cases and Scenarios 10.48 User Stories 10.49 Vendor Assessment 10.50 Workshops
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The Business Analysis Standard

A comprehensive view of the foundation for effective business analysis and provides the direction for the future development of business analysis standards and resources.

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Who Performs Business Analysis
People in various roles use business analysis concepts, practices, and tasks to create high-value deliverables or results.
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Approaches to Your Work
Business analysis professionals can perform their work in different enterprises, organizations, and environments. Business analysis professionals need to become familiar with various approaches to perform their work in the way that is best suited to the specific context.
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Value to be Delivered
Business analysis professionals should help enterprises to create value for their business and stakeholders.
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Organizational Considerations
Organizational considerations include topics that influence how senior leaders think about their organizations’ impact on the world around them. These topics are often important societal issues and very important to stakeholders.
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Managing the Delivery of Business Analysis
Organized delivery of business analysis services allows an organization to establish standards of practice that best work in their context. Business analysis can be managed within an organization in different ways.

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Introducing Business Analysis Tasks
Business analysis concepts and practices can be applied by many organizations working in different contexts and can include many different activities. These activities are described in 30 business analysis tasks and grouped within six knowledge areas (for details, please refer to the BABOK Guide v3). The importance of these tasks has been reaffirmed with the global business analysis community and are presented below as summary task cards.
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A) Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring includes tasks that organize and coordinate the efforts of business analysis professionals and stakeholders. These tasks produce outputs that are used as guidance for the other tasks.
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B) Elicitation and Collaboration
Elicitation is how information is derived or drawn from the stakeholders to discover the requirements and designs for the solution. Collaboration describes two or more people working together to achieve a common goal or objective.
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C) Requirements and Designs Life Cycle Management
Requirements and Designs Life Cycle Management describes the tasks that business analysis professionals perform to manage and maintain requirements and designs from creation to retirement.
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D) Strategy Analysis
Strategy analysis should be performed as a business need is identified. It provides context to requirements analysis and design definition for a given change.
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E) Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
Solution Evaluation describes the tasks that business analysis professionals perform to assess the performance of, and value delivered by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal of barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
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F) Solution Evaluation
Solution Evaluation describes the tasks that business analysis professionals perform to assess the performance of, and value delivered by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal of barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.

Introducing Business Analysis Task Cards

The tasks are structured into easy-to-reference, one-page cards and align with the BACCM™

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

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Elicitation and Collaboration

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Requirements and Designs Life Cycle Management

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Strategy Analysis

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