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Differentiating the BA perspectives

Differentiating the BA perspectives

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Differentiating the BA perspectives

- Business analysis professionals are skilled at tailoring their approaches to the context of where they are working. That just means wherever they go, they adjust. The "BABOK Guide" introduces us to five key perspectives that show how business analysis work is tailored to specific initiatives. A perspective is simply a way to focus your business analysis work. The list in the "BABOK Guide" is by no means an exhaustive list and you actually might use more than one perspective on a given project. However, understanding how you tailor your approach is perhaps the most important concept about perspectives. Begin by focusing on the change scope. Ask yourself how wide the change affects the enterprise. But then also consider how detailed and at what levels of authority the change may be affecting or is affected by. All change efforts are different so you want to clearly articulate what value is achieved through delivered…

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