Understanding different words
(Terminologies) are the first step to start learning anything new. Say, it ‘s a language or it can be a new
business domain. Of course, when we want to learn a
language, we need to learn many things other than just words.
Understanding the key words could be an
effective start. For example: If you
look at a small kid, when he or she starts speaking they hardly know anything
about the language. They simply start
speaking words! This is a natural gift
to all human beings. If you can
understand the terminology, you have made a quick start.
Business Analysis as a practice is yet to
get its full maturity. It’s
evolving. When you compare with software
engineering, project management or requirements engineering, business analysis
is still at a nascent stage as a practice.
When we look at the terminology used in business analysis, we can easily
find relations to the above said matured disciplines.
"In this series, I am covering the business
analysis terminology as I have understood with many years of experience as a
subject matter expert. How are these terminologies and concepts are detailed
in software engineering? Nothing is
completely different, there are adaptations, but core is the same.
I am taking a closer look at the ‘Guide to
the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge’ (SWEBOK) Ver.3 from Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ‘A Software Engineering Body of
Knowledge’ Ver.1.0 (SWE-BOK) from Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie
Mellon University (SEI – CMU), ‘IBM Rational RUP’ (Rational Unified Process)
and ‘Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) v2 from Internal Institute of
Business Analysis (IIBA).
This will help us to get a deeper understanding
for each of the terminologies from a variety of point of views. Looking it at from the IEEE (SWEBOK)
standards, SEI’s maturity models (CMMI), from the software engineering and
software development point of view of IBM Rational RUP along with the domain
neutral approach of IIBA (BABOK), we will able to get a broad perspective.
Drawing it on a larger canvas will
hopefully bring better levels of understanding of the subject. Hope you will enjoy the same!
Please do come back! I am starting the same soon.
Happy Reading.
