The technique applications are as follows:
Task |
How is this technique applied? |
Plan a business analysis approach |
As a visual way of defining and documenting an approach |
Plan stakeholder engagement |
To see which business processes and systems support which stakeholders |
Plan business analysis governance |
To document the processes that govern the business analysis |
Plan business analysis information management |
To document the processes that define information management |
Identify the business analysis performance improvements |
To document the business analysis processes and find opportunities for the improvement of those processes |
Conduct elicitation |
To elicit business process information from stakeholders in order to better understand their needs |
Maintain the requirements |
To help find the processes and requirements that might be suitable for reuse |
Define the future state |
To define how work can be performed in the future state |
Define the change strategy |
To describe the process of how work is carried out during the change or as a part of the scope of the solution |
Specify and model the requirements |
To describe the steps or activities that are performed when executing a particular business process |
Assess the enterprise limitations |
To describe the current business processes that need to change in order to achieve potential value or change |
This technique is a great way of illustrating the sequential nature of the activities that are performed for a particular process. Most stakeholders are familiar with the concepts of a process diagram and find them easy enough to follow.
The next technique you need to include in your preparation is prototyping.