On Chapter 3 we discover that the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring helps the business analyst to organize and coordinate the efforts with stakeholders. Follow below some task that could be used:
1. Plan Business Analysis Approach: Define the planning of business analysis work. This action will show the big picture of the techniques that will be used on the project how an when the duties will be executed and the products that should be produced.
Business Analyst will be defined by the organizational standard. If the company has no organizational standard. Business Analyst and stakeholders will work together to delivery one.
The business Analysis approach must:
· Coordinate the goals of change.
· Get advantages from previous successful project using the same techniques.
2. Plan Stakeholder Engagement: Describe what stakeholder is important for the success od the project and who they can collaborate with business analyst. Also maintaining good relation for the both side: Business Analyst and Stakeholders.
This technique helps the Business Analysis to define what is the paper for each involved stakeholder on the project. More stakeholder on the project, more complex the project can be. Keep that in mind.
3. Plan Business Analysis Governance: Describe what components are important to support the governance area of the company, how the decision could be made regarding the requirements approvals, feedbacks and level of importance.
Governance is important to solve any uncertainty that is rounding the project.
Business Analyst can identify some action and when they use the governance approach. Follows some example below:
· Who is responsible to approve changes,
· How change should be registered,
· Who has the authority to analyze the request to change the project?
4.Plan Business Analysis Information Management: Describe how work developed by business analyst is storage and connected with another projects’ information. This plan is responsible for all the projects’ information that are created, compile, elicit and disseminate.
It’s extremally important to have on the information organized in a functional and useful manner to be easy to access.
This part of the plan is responsible to discovering:
· How the information should be access and stored,
· how the information should be organized,
· details about the information that should be maintained, and
· the level of the detail of the information that should be salved.
After these 4 steps, you need to identify how to improve the Business Analysis Performance Improvement. You will need to monitor and establish way to measure, handle the performance, communicate the results and identify potentially corrective action.