The Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) designation is a professional certification and registered trademark from International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) granted to individuals with extensive business analysis experience.
BABOK Guide is a framework that describes the business analysis tasks that must be performed to deliver a solution that will provide value to the sponsoring organization. Each business analysis task contributes to this overall goal directly or indirectly. Many elements of a task may vary, including the form those tasks take, the order they are performed in, or the relative importance of the tasks.
BABOK Guide describes the skills, knowledge, and competencies required to perform business analysis effectively. It does not describe the processes that people will follow to do business analysis.
Note:Most business analyst positions require candidates to have a bachelor's degree in business administration or related degree for entry-level positions.
Business Analysis Body of Knowledge reflects the collective knowledge of the business analysis community and presents the most widely accepted business analysis practices
The knowledge areas of BABOK Guide are:
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring: describes the tasks used to organize and coordinate business analysis efforts. Elicitation and Collaboration: describes the tasks used to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results.
Requirements Life Cycle Management: describes the tasks used to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
Strategy Analysis: describes the tasks used to identify the business need, address that need, and align the change strategy within the enterprise.
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition: describes the tasks used to organize requirements, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options, and estimate the potential value that could be realized.
Solution Evaluation: describes the tasks used to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and to recommend improvements on increasing values.
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