and management Involves planning on how the business analyst will go about gathering the requirement, in what order, using which techniques, which stakeholders, and the schedule that s/he will follow. Requirement management on the other hand involves the process business analyst will follow to maintain a finalized requirement up to date, including any requested changes in the requirements. Requirements elicitation Describes techniques for collecting requirements from stakeholders in a project. Techniques for requirements elicitation include: Brainstorming Document analysis Focus group Interface analysis Interviews/questionnaire Workshops Reverse engineering Surveys User task analysis Process mapping Observation/job shadowing Design thinking Prototyping Requirements analysis and documentation Describes how to develop and specify requirements in enough detail to allow them to be successfully implemented by a project team. Analysis The major forms of analysis are: Architecture analysis Business process analysis Object-oriented analysis Structured analysis Data warehouse analysis, storage and databases analysis Documentation Requirements documentation can take several forms: Textual – for example, stories that summarize specific information Matrix – for example, a table of requirements with priorities Diagrams – for example, how data flows from one structure to the other Wireframe – for example, how elements are required in a website, Models – for example, 3-D models that describes a character in a computer game Requirements communication Describes techniques for ensuring that stakeholders have a shared understanding of the requirements and how they will be implemented. Solution assessment and validation Describes how the business analyst can perform correctness of a proposed solution, how to support the implementation of a solution, and how to assess possible shortcomings in the implementation. Techniques There are a number of generic business techniques that a business analyst will use when facilitating business change. Some of these techniques include: PESTLE This is used to perform an external environmental analysis by examining the many different external factors affecting an organization. The six attributes of PESTLE: Political (current and potential influences from political pressures) Economic (the local, national and world economy impact) Sociological (the ways in which a society can affect an organization) Technological (the effect of new and emerging technology) Legal (the effect of national and world legislation) Environmental (the local, national and world environmental issues) Heptalysis This is used to perform an in-depth analysis of early stage businesses/ventures on seven important categories: Market opportunity Product/solution Execution plan Financial engine Human capital Potential return Margin of safety STEER It is essentially another take