business analysis task 5
How does strategy analysis affect my small project?
Now it’s time to introduce a new requirement to your personal project.
- Come up with a possible requirement that any stakeholder could request. Make sure that the requirements affects other requirements and already existing solutions.
- Acting as the Change Control Board, assess the change, trace the requirement to learn the impact on the overall solution, and prioritize the requirement among all the requirements.
- Since this is a new requirement, be sure to determine:
- Cost
- Risk
- Penalty for not implementing
- Benefit for implementing
- Any dependencies to other requirements
- Time sensitivity
- Stability of the requirement
- Any compliance that need to be met
As a Business Analyst, you always need to know the current state (AS-IS), future state (TO-BE), the gap between the two and the risk.
- Read Chapter 6 of the IIBA Book.
- Watch the video – How to Develop As-is and To-Be Business Process
- Read the article – Problem Solving for Business Analysts
- Read the article – An Overview of Enterprise Analysis
- Watch the movie “The Matrix†starring Kenau Reeves. As you are watching the movie, do a strategic analysis jotting down notes on the following:
- AS-IS state
- TO-BE state
- Risks and what was done to alleviate those risks
- What needed to be done to get from the AS-IS to the TO-BE state
- There are multiple free sites to choose from:
- Option 1
- Option 2
- Option 3
- Be prepared to talk about your observations/findings in regards to the movie in class.
- Research the internet to find strategic analysis on major corporations, like Apple, Google, and Starbucks. As a Business Analyst of the corporation, determine what your roles and responsibilities would be for a strategic project.
- Prepare a list of links on your corporation research to share in class with others to read.
- Feel free to research other corporations, just be prepared to discuss your findings.
- Be prepared to answer questions by your peers and faculty.
For you task, submit the deliverable for your personal project. Include the following:
- Submit the business case around a possible requirement that any stakeholder could request. Provide the following documentation that the Change Control Board would review:
- Assessment of the change
- Trace the requirement to understand the impact this change will have on the overall solution
- Prioritize the requirement among all the requirements
- When prioritizing the requirement, be sure to include:
- Cost
- Risk
- Penalty for not implementing
- Benefit for implementing
- Any dependencies to other requirements
- Time sensitivity
- Stability of the requirements
- Any compliance that needs to be met