 Plan the Business Analysis Approach

 How and when BA tasks will be performed

 Agree on techniques to be used
 Define Deliverables to be produced
 Predictive Vs Adaptive approaches
 Predictive planning approach
 Focus on ensuring that the solution is fully defined
before implementation begins

 Adaptive planning approach

 Used in projects where many small iterations are
defined and developed en route to the final result

 Hybrid approach - requires customization and scaling

 Predictive business analysis
 Using structure to control project risk

 Adaptive business analysis

 Uses flexibility to control project risk
 Create a Business Analysis approach
 Needs
 Business Analysis Performance Assessment
 Business Policies
 Expert Judgment
 Methodologies and frameworks
 Stakeholder engagement approach
 Select Planning approach

 Decide formality and level of detail

 Plan and integrate Business Analysis activities

 Determine timing of Business Analysis work

 Consider project complexity and risk

 Create the Business Analysis approach
 Task output
 Output destination
 Source knowledge area

 Business analysis roles and responsibilities, activities,

deliverables, techniques, timing and sequencing of
business analysis work
 Plan stakeholder engagement approach
 Perform stakeholder analysis
 Define stakeholder collaboration
 Stakeholder communication needs
 Plan stakeholder engagement approach
 Recommended Techniques
 Organizational modelling
 Stakeholder list
 Stakeholder analysis
 Stakeholder map
 Stakeholder Matrix

 Onion diagram

 RACI matrix
 Personas