IIBA^® CBAP^® Training and Certification — Case Studies

CBAP Certification Course Outline

• Preparing for a Case Study Exam

  Identifying the goal of the exam and what will be tested

  • Testing the application of knowledge in a business scenario
  • Employing the skills of application, analysis, and evaluation

  Practicing case study exam techniques

  • Reading with intention
  • Analyzing relationships
  • Identifying solutions

• Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

  Applying key techniques to BAPM tasks

  • Thinking through the BA work required
  • Developing ways to monitor progress
  • Integrating governance and performance processes

  Analyzing the work needed to achieve the goals

  • Adapting to different development methodologies
  • Managing the governance and performance of BA work

• Elicitation and Collaboration

  Applying key techniques to EC tasks

  • Acquiring and interpreting stakeholder input
  • Communicating and summarizing information
  • Collaborating between stakeholders

  Assembling information into useable knowledge

  • Guiding the communication with stakeholders
  • Combining elicitation techniques for best results

• Requirements Life Cycle Management

  Applying key techniques to RLCM tasks

  • Proposing ways to manage the requirements process
  • Managing beginning-to-end
• Tracing, prioritizing, and approving requirements
• Determining how requirements change will be managed

  Transitioning requirements between life cycle states

  • Completing the work needed to fulfill a requirement state
  • Applying techniques to a variety of perspectives
  • Determining deliverables needed for each life cycle

• Strategy Analysis

  Applying key techniques to SA tasks

  • Determining the reason for organization change
  • Setting the scope of the business analysis effort
  • Modeling and comparing the current state to the future state
  • Identifying and assessing product risks

  Analyzing and gaining consensus on the business need

  • Creating and synthesizing the business requirements
  • Differentiating between business drivers
  • Aligning requests for change to the business need

• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

  Applying key techniques to RADD tasks

  • Choosing a technique and writing requirements
  • Applying appropriate modeling techniques
  • Comparing written requirements to verification checklists
  • Ensuring requirements work together to achieve the goal

  Combining techniques to optimize the solution

  • Scheduling and leading requirements validation sessions
  • Examining how requirements, models, and designs interact
  • Illustrating design options and their components

  Creating and optimizing requirements, designs, and models

  • Diagramming and analyzing business process flows
  • Functionally decomposing functions and features

  Ensuring what is created matches stakeholder expectations

  • Designing prototypes to solidify needed components
  • Reviewing documented requirements and designs

• Solution Evaluation

  Applying key techniques to SE tasks

  • Evaluating the currently deployed solution
  • Assessing the value of the proposed solution
  • Determining causes of unacceptable solution performance

  Comparing requirements to implemented solutions

  • Determine if requirements provide value
  • Differentiate between limiting factors