34 Business Analysis Techniques from The IIBA

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Posted on February 25, 2011 by Dave Kohrell

Chapter Nine of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), Second

Edition provides a concluding overview of thirty-four techinques used
throughout business analysis and the six processes defined within the
BABOK). Ill highlight the most frequently used ones in my career over the
next several weeks. If one of the following techniques does not make the list,
thats OK. Its not meant to be a slight; rather it may be a technique thats not
used as frequently in practice, or one that we have not used in our consulting
practice.
I hope you join in the conversation from Acceptance Criteria to Vendor
Assessment.
1. Acceptance and Evaluation 18. Observation
Criteria Definition 19. Organizational Modeling
2. Benchmarking 20. Problem Tracking
3. Brainstorming 21. Process Modeling
4. Business Rules Analysis 22. Prototyping
5. Data Dictionary and Glossary 23. Requirements
6. Data Flow Diagrams Workshops
7. Data Modeling 24. Risk Analysis
8. Decision Analysis 25. Root Cause Analysis
9. Document Analysis 26. Scenarios and Use Cases
10. Estimation 27. Scope Modeling
11. Focus Groups 28. Sequence Diagrams
12. Functional 29. State Diagrams
Decomposition 30. Structured Walkthrough
13. Interface Analysis 31. Survey/Questionnaire
14. Interviews 32. SWOT Analysis
15. Lessons Learned Process 33. User Stories
16. Metrics and Key 34. Vendor Assessment
Performance Indicators
35.
17. Non-Functional
Requirements Analysis