Plan Business Analysis Information Management

The role of business analysis information management planning is to define the way
information gathered during the business analysis process will be captured, stored,
accessed, and integrated with other available information. This includes all information
elicited, created, and compiled over the course of the business analysis process.

The amount of information obtained this way can be enormous and proper handling is
essential for its future use. All of the information should be optimised and easily
accessible for whatever period it is needed.

Business analysis information management planning uses all of the outputs from
previous tasks as its input. This includes the business analysis approach, stakeholder
engagement approach, and governance approach. The main expected output is the
information management approach which defines the state of information upon the
completion of the change.

The key elements of planning the business analysis information management task are:

 Organisation of business analysis information;

 Level of abstraction;
 Planning a traceability approach;
 Planning for requirement reuse;
 Storage and access;
 Requirements attributes.
Guidelines and tools used during this task are business analysis performance
assessment, business policies, information management tools, and legal/regulatory
information.

The main stakeholders with the role to play at this stage are domain subject matter
expert, regulator, and sponsor.

Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements

 
Identifying business analysis performance improvements include monitoring and
management of business analysis performance in order to ensure the realisation of
improvements and securing continuous opportunities.

It’s the assessment of the work that the business analyst has done and serves as a
guideline for implementing improvements where needed. This task consists of
establishing performance measures, conduction analysis based on those measures,
reporting, and identifying potential necessary actions.
The primary inputs are business analysis approach and performance objectives which
are the external goals set by an organisation. The output of this task is the business
analysis performance assessment. It details puts actual performance against the
planned one, identifies potential issues, and proposes solutions.

Identifying business analysis improvements includes a few key elements:

 Performance analysis;
 Assessment measures;
 Analysing the results;
 Recommending actions for improvement,
The main tool used here is the organisation performance standard including
performance metrics or organisational expectations.

For this business analysis planning and monitoring task, the main stakeholders are
domain subject matter expert, project manager, and sponsor.

Conclusion – Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

In all business analysis projects whether waterfall or agile the business analyst will need
to understand and review their business analysis planning and monitoring approach to
suite the context of their project (and also when they arrived in the project).

This article has provided an introduction to the business analysis planning and
monitoring activities necessary for the successful completion of the whole project.