From the course: Studying for the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)®

Explaining the Business Analyst Core Concept Model™

From the course: Studying for the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)®

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Explaining the Business Analyst Core Concept Model™

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- The IIBA has defined a framework for an easy way to consider business analysis concepts. This is called the Business Analysis Core Concept Model, or BACCM. This is a great way to analyze any change effort. It is independent of industry or profession, so you can use it anywhere. The model presents six core concepts that are all interrelated: needs, changes, solutions, context, value and stakeholders. Needs are key to business analysis work. A need is a problem or opportunity that is the focus of your business analysis work. Needs are the why. The changes are what you are transforming to address the need, or maybe responding to the need. Whereas solutions are how you are going to address the need. All these changes happen in context. Context is anything influenced by, influencing, or simply exists around the change. Value is probably the most important part of this model, as this is where you define what the effort is worth. Value can be tangible items like money and number of customers. Value can also be intangible items, such as brand reputation and employee satisfaction. And then your stakeholders are anyone affected by, affecting, or concerned with the change, need or solution. This model is so helpful for your business analysis work, as it is a holistic model. Okay, so what do I mean by holistic model? I mean it highlights the relationships between each concept to help you think about your business analysis work. How you might solve your customer's need with a particular solution may depend on your context. And your stakeholders may change depending on your context and the discussion of value. Now you not only have a visual to help you think about your business analysis work, but you also have a structure or a guide to help you go through it. To best understand each business analysis knowledge area, you should consider what the Business Analysis Core Concept model would look like. For example, consider the requirements analysis and design knowledge area. The change considers how you take elicitation results and transform them into requirements and designs that define the change effort. The need in this knowledge area pertains to analyzing the needs in order to recommend a solution that meets these needs. With this structure, you can take another look at each of the business analysis domains by defining what their core concepts involve. Use the worksheets to help you practice. You can then take this further and look at your own business analysis work, using these related core concepts. This is a great way to practice how to analyze the questions you will see on you CBAP examination.

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