Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®)

• Plan Business Analysis Approach 
• Creates rules for selecting the business analysis approach 
• Guides practice in determining the level of business analysis formality 
• Creates rules for identifying business analysis activities 
• Expert: Advanced knowledge of timing of business analysis work 
• Advanced knowledge of assessing complexity, size, and risk factors 
• Guides practice in gaining stakeholder understanding and agreement 
• Plan Stakeholder Engagement 
• Guides practice in performing stakeholder analysis 
• Advanced knowledge of defining the required level of stakeholder collaboration 
• Advanced knowledge in identifying appropriate stakeholder communication needs 
• Plan Business Analysis Governance 
• Advanced knowledge in identifying an effective decision-making process 
• Guides practice in developing an effective change control processes 
• Guides practice in planning an effective prioritization process 
• Advanced knowledge of planning an effective approval process 
• Plan Business Analysis Information Management 
• Guides practice in determining how to organize business analysis information 
• Guides practice in determining the appropriate level of abstraction 
• Creates rules on planning the traceability approach 
• Creates rules on planning for requirements reuse 
• Guides practice in determining how to store and access business analysis information 
• Creates rules for identifying attributes for requirements and design management 
• Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements 
• Advanced knowledge of reporting on business analysis performance 
• Advanced knowledge of identifying business analysis performance measures 
• Guides practice in assessing business analysis performance measures 
• Guides practice in recommending business analysis performance improvements 

• Prepare for Elicitation 
• Modifies rules for the elicitation scope 
• Modifies rules for selecting appropriate elicitation techniques 
• Modifies rules for setting up logistics for elicitation activities 
• Modifies rules for preparing supporting elicitation materials 
• Recommends action on stakeholder preparation for elicitation activities 
• Conduct Elicitation 
• Creates rules for guiding the elicitation activity 
• Creates rules for capturing the outcomes of the elicitation activity 
• Confirm Elicitation Results 
• Advanced knowledge in comparing elicitation results against source information 
• Advanced knowledge comparing elicitation results against other elicitation results 
• Communicate Business Analysis Information 
• Advanced knowledge in determining objectives and format of communication 
• Guides practice in communicating the appropriate level of detail 
• Manage Stakeholder Collaboration 
• Advanced knowledge of gaining agreement for required stakeholder commitments 
• Advanced knowledge of monitoring stakeholder engagement 
• Advanced knowledge of collaborative stakeholder relationships 

• Trace Requirements 
• Creates rules for considering value and relationships while tracing requirements 
• Creates rules for identifying the relationships to track to effectively manage traceability 
• Creates rules for determining an appropriate traceability repository to be used 
• Maintain Requirements 
• Guides practice in maintaining requirement and design information 
• Guides practice in managing attributes 
• Guides practice in managing requirements for long-term reuse 
• Prioritize Requirements 
• Guides practice in determining the appropriate basis for prioritizing requirements 
• Guides practice in guiding stakeholders through prioritization changes 
• Advanced knowledge of prioritizing new information 
• Assess Requirements Changes 
• Advanced knowledge of assessing the formality of the assessment process 
• Advanced knowledge of completing impact analysis activities 
• Advanced knowledge of guiding impact resolution activities 
• Approve Requirements 
• Advanced knowledge of stakeholder roles and authority levels 
• Guides practice in managing conflicts and resolving issues 
• Advanced knowledge of using appropriate methods to gain consensus about key business analysis information 
• Guides practice in tracking and communicating approval decisions 

• Analyze Current State 
• Guides practice in defining business needs 
• Guides practice in understanding the organizational structure and culture 
• Guides practice in understanding the organizational capabilities and processes 
• Guides practice in understanding the technology and infrastructure utilized by the organization 
• Guides practice in understanding organizational policies and business rules 
• Guides practice in understanding the organization's business architecture 
• Guides practice in understanding the organization's internal assets 
• Guides practice in understanding external influencers 
• Define Future State 
• Guides practice in articulating business goals and objectives 
• Guides practice in determining the solution scope 
• Guides practice in  identifying constraints 
• Advanced knowledge in identifying potential changes to organizational structure and culture 
• Advanced knowledge in identifying new capabilities and business processes 
• Advanced knowledge in identifying new technology and infrastructure 
• Guides practice in identifying new organizational policies and business rules 
• Guides practice in ensuring business architecture is respected 
• Advanced knowledge of assessing resource alignment for future state and transition to future state 
• Guides practice in identifying assumptions related to the future state 
• Guides practice in evaluating the potential value for the future state 
• Assess Risks 
• Advanced knowledge in identifying unknowns 
• Advanced knowledge in identifying and managing constraints, assumptions and dependencies 
• Advanced knowledge of quantifying the impact of risk factors 
• Advanced knowledge of assessing stakeholder and organizational risk tolerances 
• Advanced knowledge of recommending an effective course of action 
• Define Change Strategy 
• Advanced knowledge in identifying the appropriate solution scope 
• Guides practice in performing gap analysis 
• Guides practice in completing the enterprise readiness assessment 
• Guides practice in developing an effective change strategy 
• Guides practice in developing appropriate transition states and completing release plans 

• Specify and Model Requirements 
• Creates rules for modeling requirements and designs 
• Creates rules for analyzing requirements and designs 
• Creates rules for identifying information for requirements and designs 
• Creates rules for developing the appropriate level of abstraction to meet various needs 
• Verify Requirements 
• Creates rules for applying the characteristics of requirements and designs quality 
• Creates rules for performing verification activities throughout the work 
• Creates rules for using appropriate checklists for quality control 
• Validate Requirements 
• Advanced knowledge of identifying assumptions in order to manage risks 
• Creates rules for defining measurable evaluation criteria to assess the success of the change 
• Guides practice in evaluating alignment with solution scope to support value delivery 
• Define Requirements Architecture 
• Advanced knowledge of using requirements viewpoints and views effectively 
• Creates rules for leveraging templates to develop the solution architecture 
• Guides practice in ensuring the set of requirements is complete 
• Guides practice in ensuring requirements relate to each other by identifying requirements relationships 
•  Creates rules for defining the business analysis information architecture 
• Define Design Options 

Guides practice in identifying appropriate solution approaches 

• Guides practice in identifying improvement opportunities 
• Guides practice in allocating requirements to solution components and releases to best achieve change objectives 
• Guides practice in developing design options aligned with the desired future state 
• Analyze Potential Value and Recommend Solution 
• Guides practice in identifying the expected benefits of a potential solution 
• Guides practice in identifying the costs associated with a potential solution 
• Guides practice in determining the value of a solution to key stakeholders 
• Guides practice in assessing design options and recommending the appropriate solution 

• Measure Solution Performance 
• Creates rules for identifying appropriate measures for assessing solution performance 
• Guides practice in validating selected performance measures with key stakeholders 
• Guides practice in collecting appropriate performance measures to assess solution performance 
• Analyze Performance Measures 
• Guides practice in examining collected performance measures to assess solution performance 
• Guides practice in highlighting identified risks 
• Guides practice in identifying relevant trends 
• Guides practice in testing and analyzing performance measures to ensure accuracy 
• Guides practice in identifying the root cause of performance variances and recommending actions 
• Assess Solution Limitations 
• Guides practice in identifying internal solution component dependencies 
• Guides practice in performing problem analysis to identify the source of solution limitations 
• Guides practice in performing impact assessment activities to quantify factors that affect solution performance 
• Assess Enterprise Limitations 
• Guides practice in assessing enterprise culture 
• Guides practice in completing stakeholder impact analysis 
• Guides practice in assessing how a solution impacts the organizational structure 
• Guides practice in performing operational assessment 
• Recommend Actions to Increase Solution Value 
• Guides practice in ensuring appropriate solution performance measures are being used 
• Guides practice in providing substantiated recommendations