The 50 Techniques You Must Master to Become A CBAP

Written by Prema Kani | Dec 10, 2019 8:38:17 AM

A business analyst doesn’t write a piece of code or manufacture a part but lays the roadmap for the creation of the software or gadget or machinery. Business analysts work in the virtual world, imagining things in thin air and enables all the stakeholders to visualise the to be created software or machinery. Because of these reasons, both the inputs to the business analysts and outputs from the business analysts are information. The soundness of this information ultimately results in the creation of the product that meets the customer requirements. Business analysts use plethora of techniques to elicit, collect, organise, process and present this information primarily for their own understanding and for the stakeholders. The terms techniques and tools are interchangeably used sometimes. Tools are the software or gadgets that help the business analyst to use a technique. BABoK v3 recommends 50 techniques that a business analyst must master to succeed in the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) examination conducted by IIBA, Canada. The list of techniques provided below:

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  1. Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria
  2. Backlog Management
  3. Balanced Scorecard
  4. Benchmarking and Market Analysis
  5. Brainstorming
  6. Business Capability Analysis
  7. Business Cases
  8. Business Model Canvas
  9. Business Rules Analysis
  10. Collaborative Games
  11. Concept Modelling
  12. Data Dictionary
  13. Data Flow Diagrams
  14. Data Mining
  15. Data Modelling
  16. Decision Analysis
  17. Decision Modelling
  18. Document Analysis
  19. Estimation
  20. Financial Analysis
  21. Focus Groups
  22. Functional Decomposition
  23. Glossary
  24. Interface Analysis
  25. Interviews
  26. Item Tracking
  27. Lessons Learned
  28. Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  29. Mind Mapping
  30. Non-Functional Requirements Analysis
  31. Observation
  32. Organizational Modelling
  33. Prioritization
  34. Process Analysis
  35. Process Modelling
  36. Prototyping
  37. Reviews
  38. Risk Analysis and Management
  39. Roles and Permissions Matrix
  40. Root Cause Analysis
  41. Scope Modelling
  42. Sequence Diagrams
  43. Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas
  44. State Modelling
  45. Survey or Questionnaire
  46. SWOT Analysis
  47. Use Cases and Scenarios
  48. User Stories
  49. Vendor Assessment
  50. Workshops

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