Business Analysis (ECBA®/CCBA®/CBAP®): Key Concepts Part 1

Define the business analyst role, detailing the 30 tasks across six knowledge areas and how analysts elicit stakeholder needs, analyze solutions, and drive change. Explore diverse titles and core competencies.

Explore core business analysis concepts, including information design, enterprise and organization boundaries, plan requirements, and risk, plus how elicitation results, designs, solution options, and change strategy shape value.

Explore the requirements classification schema, defining business, stakeholder, solution (functional and non-functional), and transition requirements, with examples and mapping to suitable expression techniques.

Explore the eight requirements states: specified, prioritized, modeled, approved, traced, verified, validated, and maintained. These states raise awareness and guide the next steps in requirements development for the business analyst.

Identify key stakeholders in business analysis, including business analysts, customers, subject matter experts, end users, project managers, regulators, sponsors, suppliers, and testers, and understand their varied roles and interactions.

Explore the relationship between requirements and designs, showing how elicitation, analysis, and validation guide design definitions, mapping requirements to designs, and the iterative, value-focused role of the business analyst.

Explore the first knowledge area, which is the business analysis planning and monitoring, in part two, through its five tasks, inputs, outputs, stakeholders, and techniques, and prepare for scenario quiz.