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The Six Knowledge Areas
The BABOK Guide groups business analysis work into six knowledge areas. They are not phases: on a real initiative you move between them many times. Requirements Life Cycle Management runs in parallel with all the others.
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
How to plan the business analysis work itself: approach, stakeholder engagement, governance, information management, and improving your own performance.
elicitationElicitation and Collaboration
How to prepare, run and confirm elicitation, share analysis information, and keep stakeholders engaged throughout an initiative.
requirements managementRequirements Life Cycle Management
How to trace, maintain, prioritize, assess changes to, and approve requirements and designs from inception to retirement.
strategyStrategy Analysis
How to define the business need, describe current and future states, assess risks, and choose a change strategy that delivers the most value.
modellingRequirements Analysis and Design Definition
How to turn elicitation results into specified, verified and validated requirements and designs, structure them, and recommend the best solution option.
solution evaluationSolution Evaluation
How to measure the value a solution actually delivers, find what limits it inside and outside the solution, and recommend actions to increase it.
Main sources for this section#
- IIBA. A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide), v3. 2015, chapters 3–8.