34 Business Analysis Techniques from The IIBA

Business Rules Galore!

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®).  I’ll 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, that’s OK.  It’s not meant to be a slight; rather it may be a technique that’s 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 Criteria Definition
2. Benchmarking
3. Brainstorming
4. Business Rules Analysis
5. Data Dictionary and Glossary
6. Data Flow Diagrams
7. Data Modeling
8. Decision Analysis
9. Document Analysis
10. Estimation
11. Focus Groups
12. Functional Decomposition
13. Interface Analysis
14. Interviews
15. Lessons Learned Process
16. Metrics and Key Performance Indicators
17. Non-Functional Requirements Analysis
18. Observation
19. Organizational Modeling
20. Problem Tracking
21. Process Modeling
22. Prototyping
23. Requirements Workshops
24. Risk Analysis
25. Root Cause Analysis
26. Scenarios and Use Cases
27. Scope Modeling
28. Sequence Diagrams
29. State Diagrams
30. Structured Walkthrough
31. Survey/Questionnaire
32. SWOT Analysis
33. User Stories
34. Vendor Assessment

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