Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan business analysis approach
- Establish organisational process needs and objectives that apply to the initiative, and if necessary, define the requirements that the process must meet
- Review existing organisational standards, including standards, guidelines and processes relating to the current initiative
- Tailor an approach to the needs of a specific business analysis initiative, according to organisational standards if required
- Engage with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the work will be completed
- Plan the execution of business activities
- Conduct stakeholder analysis
- Recognise stakeholders who may be affected by the business need or a new solution
- Assess stakeholder attitudes toward, and influence over, the initiative
- Decide which stakeholders will have authority over business analysis activities
- Instigate regular reviews to identify new stakeholders or changed positions as clarity of business needs evolve
- Plan business analysis activities
- Plan business analysis communication
- Plan requirements management process
- Establish a requirements repository for storing requirements, including those under development, those under review, and approved requirements
- Assess the need and process for requirements traceability, based on relevant factors
- Conclude which requirements attributes will be captured
- Determine the process for requirements change management
- Manage business analysis performance
- Determine which metrics will be used to measure the work performed by the business analyst
- Report performance in an appropriate format, based on the needs of the project
- Assess performance measures to determine where problems may be occurring in executing business analysis activities
- Identify preventative or corrective actions as required