Pages: BABOK V3 (514) has 251 more pages than BABOK V2 (263). Color combination: V3 uses 4 – 5 colors as against the black and white for V2. Text has more breathing space and readability has improved a lot. The V3 PDF copy is clickable and you can get directly to a particular page. A good improvement over the PDF version of BABOK V2.0. The primary purpose of the Agile Extension version 2 is to describe the link between business analysis practices applied with an agile mindset, defined here as agile business analysis, and A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) version 3. BABOK® Guide version 3 reflects the.
From 2005 to 2015, the BABOK has come a long way and has been the result of the efforts put in by many volunteers and industry practitioners.
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I guess it would not be incorrect to state that the main essence for V3 is around the same foundations laid in V2. The most significant changes are for Enterprise Analysis, the adding of the 5 perspectives and the overall techniques that been increased to 50. In addition the focus for some of the techniques have been changed.
A general feel is that it is not as much IT specific (the BSA role) but has also tried to place a stronger emphasis on “true Business Analysis.”
Interesting choice of the word “Design” and as quoted by Watermark that Business Analyst’s can be involved in the design of processes and hence should not be an alien concept for a BA.
Knowledge Areas
Though a one to one matching is difficult but for the purposes of this initial blog this has been done this way and I will continue to blog and pick more specific examples to showcase in times to come.
Though a one to one matching is difficult but for the purposes of this initial blog this has been done this way and I will continue to blog and pick more specific examples to showcase in times to come.
BABOK V2 | BABOK V3 |
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring | Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring |
Elicitation | Elicitation and Collaboration |
Requirements Management & Communication | Requirements Life Cycle Management |
Enterprise Analysis | Strategy Analysis |
Requirements Analysis | Requirements Analysis and Design Definition |
Solutions Assessment & Validation | Solution Evaluation |
Techniques
BABOK V2: 34
BABOK V3: 50
BABOK V3: 50
Techniques added in V3:
10.2 Backlog Management 10.3 Balanced Scorecard 10.6 Business Capability Analysis 10.7 Business Cases 10.8 Business Model Canvas 10.10 Collaborative Games 10.11 Concept Modeling 10.14 Data Mining 10.17 Decision Modelling | 10.20 Financial Analysis 10.26 Item Tracking 10.29 Mind Mapping 10.33 Prioritization 10.34 Process Analysis 10.37 Reviews 10.39 Roles and Permissions Matrix 10.43 Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas 10.50 Workshops |
Removed from V 2.0 or Renamed:
BABOK V2 | BABOK V3 |
9.2 Benchmarking | 10.4 Benchmarking and Market Analysis |
9.5 Data Dictionary and Glossary | 10.12 Data Dictionary 10.23 Glossary |
9.15 Lessons Learned Process | 10.27 Lessons Learned |
9.24 Risk Analysis | 10.38 Risk Analysis and Management |
9.26 Scenarios and Use Cases | 10.47 Use Cases and Scenarios |
9.29 State Diagrams | 10.44 State Modelling |
Perspectives
Fresh perspectives have been added and I think they address the needs and how a BA can utilize them in an engagement.
These have been added in the hope that almost all initiatives are more than likely to have any one component of the perspectives addressed. To directly quote from the BABOK V3: “For example, an initiative may have a technology component (Information Technology Perspective), the technology component may mean business process changes (Business Process Management Perspective), the initiative may decide to do part, or all of the work with an agile approach (Agile Perspective). Another initiative may merge two organizations and need to look at the business capabilities and how the transformation impacts those capabilities (Business Architecture Perspective), and the business leaders need updated information for decision making and analysis (Business Intelligence Perspective).” (Ref Pg 367)
The other side
- Pages: BABOK V3 (514) has 251 more pages than BABOK V2 (263).
- Color combination: V3 uses 4 – 5 colors as against the black and white for V2. Text has more breathing space and readability has improved a lot.
- The V3 PDF copy is clickable and you can get directly to a particular page. A good improvement over the PDF version of BABOK V2.0.
Stay tuned for more in times to come and do let me know your feedback.
BABOK VERSION 3 TECHNIQUES
General BABOK techniques are another major area of change in BABOK v3, which we cover second for similar reasons as we did for the KAs. Namely, the amount of familiarity people have for the v2 techniques will help make understanding the changes in v3 a bit easier.
Version 2 of the BABOK included 34 general techniques and 15 task-specific techniques. Version 3 has added 16 additional general techniques, a whopping 47% increase. We could debate whether such an increase was needed, but one thing is certain: there are several new techniques to master if you plan to pass the CBAP or CCBA exam. And, for those using the BABOK as a general reference, Business Analysis has more techniques than ever that are regarded as generally accepted in the industry.
See Table 1 below for a summary of both the stability and changes to general techniques from BABOK version 2 to 3.
Technique | Same | Rename | New | Notes |
10.1 Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria | X | |||
10.2 Backlog Management | X | |||
10.3 Balanced Scorecard | X | |||
10.4 Benchmarking and Market Analysis | X | Added “Market Analysis” | ||
10.5 Brainstorming | X | |||
10.6 Business Capability Analysis | X | |||
10.7 Business Cases | X | Was a task in v2 | ||
10.8 Business Model Canvas | X | |||
10.9 Business Rules Analysis | X | |||
10.10 Collaborative Games | X | |||
10.11 Concept Modelling | X | |||
10.12 Data Dictionary | X | Dropped “Glossary” | ||
10.13 Data Flow Diagrams | X | |||
10.14 Data Mining | X | Most applicable to BI Perspective | ||
10.15 Data Modelling | X | |||
10.16 Decision Analysis | X | |||
10.17 Decision Modelling | X | Includes Decision Tables and Decision Trees, both part of “Decision Analysis” in v2 | ||
10.18 Document Analysis | X | |||
10.19 Estimation | X | |||
10.20 Financial Analysis | X | Moved from Enterprise Analysis in v2 | ||
10.21 Focus Groups | X | |||
10.22 Functional Decomposition | X | |||
10.23 Glossary | X | Split off from v2 Data Dictionary & Glossary | ||
10.24 Interface Analysis | X | |||
10.25 Interviews | X | |||
10.26 Item Tracking | X | In v2 were part of “Problem Tracking” and an Element in “Manage Solution Scope & Requirements” | ||
10.27 Lessons Learned | X | Dropped “Process” from title | ||
10.28 Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) | X | |||
10.29 Mind Mapping | X | |||
10.30 Non-Functional Requirements Analysis | X | |||
10.31 Observation | X | |||
10.32 Organizational Modelling | X | |||
10.33 Prioritization | X | Previously were techniques in “Prioritize Requirements” in v2 | ||
10.34 Process Analysis | X | Includes SIPOC and Value Stream Mapping, arguably part of process modeling | ||
10.35 Process Modelling | X | |||
10.36 Prototyping | X | |||
10.37 Reviews | X | Formerly “Structured Walkthrough” in v2 | ||
10.38 Risk Analysis and Management | X | Formerly “Risk Analysis” in v2 | ||
10.39 Roles and Permissions Matrix | X | Previously techniques in “Conduct Stakeholder Analysis” in v2 | ||
10.40 Root Cause Analysis | X | |||
10.41 Scope Modelling | X | |||
10.42 Sequence Diagrams | X | |||
10.43 Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas | X | Previously techniques in “Conduct Stakeholder Analysis” in v2 | ||
10.44 State Modelling | X | Called “State Diagrams” in v2 | ||
10.45 Survey or Questionnaire | X | “Survey/Questionnaire” in v2 | ||
10.46 SWOT Analysis | X | |||
10.47 Use Cases and Scenarios | X | Formerly “Scenarios and Use Cases” in v2 | ||
10.48 User Stories | X | |||
10.49 Vendor Assessment | X | |||
10.50 Workshops | X | Called “Requirements Workshops” in v2 |
Table 1: BABOK v2 vs. v3 General Technique Differences
BABOK VERSION 3 TECHNIQUE SUMMARY
As you can see in the table above, all 34 general techniques from BABOK version 2 remained intact or were renamed. Again, we could argue the wisdom of keeping all the techniques or the appropriateness of adding some of the narrower techniques. Like any Body of Knowledge, there will be tasks and techniques in BABOK® Guide v3 that will never apply to a particular person’s job or career situation. The challenge becomes that of a) mastering the content enough to pass the CBAP or CCBA exam and/or b) deciding whether to use the particular techniques on the job.
Of the 16 “new” techniques, half of them are not actually new. Some have been moved out of task-specific techniques, such as Business Cases. Some are divisions of other techniques such as Process Analysis, which has many similarities to Process Modeling. Table 2 below is our list of the truly new techniques added to BABOK version 3.
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NEW TECHNIQUE | BABOK DESCRIPTION | RELATES TO |
10.2 Backlog Management | Used to record, track, and prioritize remaining work items. | Agile Perspective |
10.3 Balanced Scorecard | Used to manage performance in any business model, organizational structure, or business process. | BPM Perspective and Process Analysis |
10.6 Business Capability Analysis | Provides a framework for scoping and planning by generating a shared understanding of outcomes, identifying alignment with strategy, and providing a scope and prioritization filter. | BPM Perspective and Process Analysis |
10.8 Business Model Canvas | Describes how an enterprise creates, delivers, and captures value for and from its customers. | BPM Perspective and Strategy |
10.10 Collaborative Games | Encourage participants in an elicitation activity to collaborate in building a joint understanding of a problem or a solution. | Facilitation and Workshops |
10.11 Concept Modelling | Organize the business vocabulary needed to consistently and thoroughly communicate the knowledge of a domain. | Glossary |
10.14 Data Mining | Used to improve decision making by finding useful patterns and insights from data. | BI Perspective |
10.29 Mind Mapping | Used to articulate and capture thoughts, ideas, and information. | Conduct Elicitation |
Table 2: Truly New Techniques in BABOK Version 3
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In the next part of this article, we examine the two major additions to BABOK version 3: the BA Core Concept Model and Business Analysis Perspectives.
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