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Business Analysis Terms

Understanding business analysis terminology contributes greatly to the success of a business analyst, both career-wise and in terms of acquiring a business analysis certification. This page is dedicated to helping newer BAs who need exposure to common business analysis concepts and terms, as well as seasoned BA professionals who want to stay up to date on relevant terminology.

 

For BA practitioners who are pursuing an IIBA certification, be sure to check out the BABOK V3 Glossary to get an extensive list of over 500 key BABOK terms that could appear on the certification exam but may not be uniquely defined in the BABOK Guide itself. Knowing the terminology is half the battle for passing the exam!!!

Below are the types of governance processes BAs should know about:


  • Business Analysis Governance
  • Change Governance
  • Data Governance
  • IT Governance
  • Project Governance
  • Organizational Governance


data migration, application migration, cloud migration, storage migration.

Below are the types of data migration:


  • Application Migration - Moving an application program from one environment to another. 
  • Business Process Migration - Moving business process applications, data, and metrics to a new environment.
  • Cloud Migration - Moving data, application, or other business elements from either an on-premises data center to a cloud or from one cloud to another. 
  • Database Migration - Moving from one database management system (DBMS) to another or upgrading from the current version of a DBMS to the latest version of the same DBMS.
  • Storage Migration - Moving data off existing storage structures into better-performing ones that enable other systems to access it. 


backlog, product backlog, backlog prioritization, backlog ordering, sprint backlog, agile, IIBA-AAC

Below are considerations for prioritizing and ordering a product backlog:


Prioritization Considerations:

  • Benefit (tangible and intangible value)
  • Penalty
  • Cost (tangible and intangible)
  • Project Dependencies
  • Product Risk
  • Time Sensitivity
  • Requirement Stability
  • Regulation or Compliance

Ordering Consideration

  • PBI Dependency (necessity and effort)
  • Implementation Risk
  • Delivery Team Capacity
  • Implementation Complexity
  • Implementation Cost


conceptual data model, logical data model, physical data model, ERD, entity-relationship diagram,


Below are the characteristics of each entity-relationship diagram stage:


Conceptual ERD

  • Least amount of detail
  • Communicates overall scope of a system
  • Includes entities and their relationships
  • Easy for the business to understand
  • Easy to update 
  • Often created on paper or a whiteboard

Logical ERD

  • More detail than a conceptual ERD
  • Communicates operations, transactions, and business rules
  • Introduces the attributes and relationship cardinality
  • Database agnostic
  • Easy for the business and technical team to understand
  • Takes more effort to update
  • Best represented with a diagramming tool

Physical ERD

  • The most amount of detail
  • Communicates physical structure of a database
  • Introduces database-specific data types
  • Entities become tables
  • Attributes become columns
  • Difficult for the business to understand
  • Requires the most effort to update
  • Best represented with a data modeling software




Functional coverage, business analysis, business analyst, CBAP, CCBA, ECBA, IIBA, BABOK

Below are some tools and techniques to facilitate functional coverage from the BA perspective according to BABOK. 


  • Document Analysis - When documents are up to date, identifying and consulting all potential requirements sources will result in improved requirements coverage.
  • Functional Decomposition -  Breaks functions down into smaller pieces to allow for analysis of the detailed processes to ensure coverage of all processes that are relevant to a potential solution.
  • Interface Analysis -  Early identification of interfaces allows the business analyst to provide the context for eliciting more detailed stakeholder requirements, thus determining adequate functional coverage.
  • Roles and Responsibility Matrix - Used to ensure coverage of activities and functions by indicating responsibility to identify roles and discover missing roles.
  • Traceability Matrix - Ensures requirements and design coverage by identifying clearly defined requirement relationships. 



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