Guidelines/Tools and Techniques

The guidelines/tools and techniques used to analyze the current state and create business requirements.

• Analyze Current State - Uses Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Business Capability Analysis, Business Model Canvas, Business Cases, Concept Modeling, Data Mining, Document Analysis, Financial Analysis, Focus Groups, Functional Decomposition, Interviews, Item Tracking, Lessons Learned, Metrics and KPIs, Mind Mapping, Observations, Organizational Modeling, Process Modeling, Risk Analysis and Management, Process Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Scope Modeling, Surveys and Questionnaires, SWOT Analysis, Vendor Assessments and Workshops to document the current state.

• The Current state Description – Uses the Business Analysis Approach, Enterprise Limitations, Organizational Strategies, Solution Performance Goals, Solution Performance Measures, Solution Limitations and Stakeholder Analysis Results as guidelines and tools.

The relationships between these guidelines, tools, techniques and the Current State Description are detailed in the BABOK under the Guidelines and Tools and Techniques sections of the Analyze Current State task.

Workers

The people involved with analyzing the current state and producing business requirements

The relationships between these roles, the Current State Description and Business Requirements are detailed in the BABOK under the Stakeholders section of the Analyze Current State task.

Customer - Has experience with the existing solution and able to provide input about current issues.

Domain Subject Matter Expert - Has expertise with the current state solution.
End User - Directly uses the solution and able to provide input about current issues.
Implementation Subject Matter Expert - Has expertise with the implementation of the current state solution.
Operational Support - Provides information about issues and their ability to support the existing solution.

Project Manager - May use information about current state as input to planning the future state.
Regulator - Can inform the BA of relevant regulations that apply to the current state.
Sponsor - Provides input about the performance of existing solutions.

Tester - Is able to provide information about issues with any existing solutions.

Supplier - May externally influence the current state.