Workshop BABOK V3 Awareness

Discover how BABOK Guide V3 concepts, tasks and skills relate to your day-to-day work.

What is BABOK V3?

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) is an independent non-profit professional association serving the growing field of business analysis.

IIBA assists business analysis practitioners by, among others, defining standards for business analysis through the creation of “A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge”® (BABOK® Guide), a summary of the knowledge within the BA profession, reflecting current generally accepted practices. In April 2015, BABOK Guide v3 has been released.

About the workshop

The 1-day BABOK v3 Awareness Workshop gives you a tour through the BABOK Guide v 3. The main objective of this workshop is to provide delegates with a practical and concise overview of BABOK with the opportunity to discuss and relate the Business Analysis concepts, tasks and skills to their day-to-day work.

The workshop is conducted in an interactive atmosphere where delegates can explore the key concepts and knowledge areas of BABOK® and relate them to their own working environment. Delegates will check their existing knowledge against generally accepted practices collated in BABOK and be able to identify potential knowledge and skill gaps that can be addressed with further focussed self-study.

Delegates receive:

• the hard copy of BABOK V3 book, and
• a binder with slides from the workshop.

Content of the workshop:

Introduction to BABoK and Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM) - In this part of the workshop you get an introduction to the structure of BABOK v3, along with a discussion around a range of business analysis core concepts and terminology from the IIBA Business Analysis Concept Model.

Tour through BABOK V3 Knowledge Areas:

Strategy Analysis - This module is dedicated to the strategy analysis. We discuss approached to better understanding of the business problems/opportunities and methods to define them unambiguously.

Requirements Analysis and Design Definition - The Requirements Analysis and Design Definition focuses on how to structure and organize requirements. We discuss specific aspects of defining requirements in different development lifecycles: predictive (waterfall) versus adaptive (agile).

Solution Evaluation - The Solution Evaluation module addresses aspects related to assessing the performance of and value delivered by a solution that is in use by the organisation.

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring - Business Analysis activities have to planned and monitored. This part of the workshop discusses different business analysis approaches, assesses the stakeholder landscape, and provide guidance on estimates and coordination of Business Analysis effort.

Elicitation and Collaboration - This module teaches how BABOK approaches requirements elicitation, and shares the elicitation results. We discuss different requirements elicitations techniques and their usage in different situations.

Requirement Lifecycle Management - BABOK has a clear vision on how to manage requirements throughout the lifecycle. We discuss this vision including prioritization and tracing of requirements.

Underlying competencies - BABOK prescribes the various skills needed to be effective in business analysis work. We discuss behaviours, characteristics, knowlegde and skills needed to perform the knowledge areas tasks.

Closure - In the final phase of the workshop we will wrap the learnings up and give delegates a chance to react to what they just learned. They will be also asked to define the possible scenarios how BABOK Guide v3 could be applied in their organizations.

During the workshop we have a variety of short interactive brainstorm sessions and exercises to encourage delegates to discuss their own projects and relate them to the BABOK V3 content.