Elicitation and Collaboration
Created By: Aishveen Kaur Gill
Ques:1 What is Elicitation and collaboration?
Ans: Elicitation and collaboration describes the tasks that Business Analysts perform to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirms the result obtained. It also describes the communication with stakeholders once the business analysis information is assembled and the ongoing collaboration with them throughout the business analysis activities.
Elicitation and collaboration can be planned, unplanned or both. Planned activities includes the surveys that can be structured and organized in advance, workshops and experiments while the unplanned activities are happened at the moment without any notice and these activities requires deeper exploration through planned activities.
Ques:2 What types of task Elicitation and collaboration composes?
Ans: Prepare for Elicitation: It understand of the scope of elicitation, select elicitation techniques, set up logistics for each elicitation activity, identify supporting material to conduct elicitation activity and prepare stakeholders to elicitation work.
Conduct Elicitation: It guides the elicitation activities and capture elicitation outcomes.
Confirm Elicitation Results: It compares elicitation results against sources information and compare elicitation result against other
Communicate Business Analysis Information: It deterimines the objectives and format of communication and communict business analysis package.
Manage Stakeholder Collaboration: It gain agreement on commitments, monitor stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
Ques:3 What are the techniques to prepare for elicitation?
Ans: Brainstorming: used to collaboratively identify and reach consensus about which sources of business analysis information should be consulted and which elicitation techniques might be effective.
Estimation: time and effort estimation required for the elicitation as well as the cost associated in business.
Data Mining: used to collect the data, information or patterns for an investigation.
Risk Analysis and Management: The plans for the elicitation should be adjusted to identify, assess, and manage conditions or situations.
Interviews: used to identify concerns about the planned and unplanned elicitation to procced with specific options.
Ans: Brainstorming: used to collaboratively identify and reach consensus about which sources of business analysis information should be consulted and which elicitation techniques might be effective.
Estimation: time and effort estimation required for the elicitation as well as the cost associated in business.
Data Mining: used to collect the data, information or patterns for an investigation.
Risk Analysis and Management: The plans for the elicitation should be adjusted to identify, assess, and manage conditions or situations.
Interviews: used to identify concerns about the planned and unplanned elicitation to procced with specific options.
Stakeholder List, Map, or Personas: used to consulted while preparing for the elicitation, who should participate in the event, and the appropriate roles for each stakeholders.
Ques:4 How manage a stakeholder collaboration is important in Business Analysis?
Ans: Managing the collaboration of stakeholders in business activities is key to obtain success as stakeholder engagement encourages the stakeholder to work towards a common goal. Choosing the right stakeholder for engagement at a right time is more important than just managing their engagement. Business analyst is the one who determines the roles of the stakeholder and communicate with them. Business analyst encourages stakeholder involvement in order to reduce the impact of negative reactions and constantly supervise their involvement in the business analysis activities and establish a relationship with them as the poor relationships will be detrimental for business analysis.
Ques:5 What are the common guideline and tools to manage stakeholders collaboration?
Ans: Business Analysis Approach: Each group member should describes the nature and level of collaboration to perform planned BA activities.
Business objectives: To achieve the future state one should describes the desired directions needed and to achieve the desired business outcomes they have to focus diverse stakeholders on a common vision.
Future state description: defines the desired future state and the expected value it present to give more focus on stakeholders to achieve the goals.
Recommended Actions: to improve the focus oitationn stakeholders to achieve goals communicating should be done and the value of solution can help to support and focus.
Risk Analysis Results: Risks related to stakeholder will be needed to address to ensure stakeholders collaboration for business activities.
Business objectives: To achieve the future state one should describes the desired directions needed and to achieve the desired business outcomes they have to focus diverse stakeholders on a common vision.
Future state description: defines the desired future state and the expected value it present to give more focus on stakeholders to achieve the goals.
Recommended Actions: to improve the focus oitationn stakeholders to achieve goals communicating should be done and the value of solution can help to support and focus.
Risk Analysis Results: Risks related to stakeholder will be needed to address to ensure stakeholders collaboration for business activities.
Business Analyst has responsibility to collaborate with stakeholders for the requirements of elicitation.The unpacked knowledge that is critical which may impact directly on success of project. There are different tasks for the preparation of elicitation in Microsoft like brainstorming,focus groups and so on. The understanding is must for the growth of company because success of any project depends on the understanding. Communication and managing expectations are the best tools for the progress of Microsoft company.
ReplyDeleteA business analyst needs to be in a constant state of collaboration with the stakeholders. No one person can do an entire project when it is a team effort. A BA needs to directly understand this and apply this knowledge. It is key to get all the stakeholders on board and to understand any new idea or concept. This intense focus on the goal will make collaboration much simpler. A clear sign that the stakeholders understand the situation and goal is if you as the BA can elicit a response and have them weigh in as much as possible.
ReplyDeleteBusiness analysis work lends itself to many collaboration opportunities between groups of stakeholders on the business analysis work products. Stakeholders hold various degrees of influence and authority over the approval of work products, and are also an important source of needs, constraints, and assumptions. As the business analysis work progresses, the business analyst identifies stakeholders, confirms their roles, and communicates with them to ensure that the right stakeholders participate at the right times and in the appropriate roles.
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