The Business Analysis Standard is the foundation for effective business analysis. It describes how business analysis as a discipline:

• Is used in many industry contexts to deliver exceptional business outcomes
• Promotes practical application of good practices, processes, methodologies, and techniques
• Provides a starting point to build organizational standards

It describes how business analysis as a practice:

• Focuses on driving value for both organizations and customers through analysis and applying key competencies
• Can be used at different levels, including strategic, initiative, or delivery, to produce desired results
• Offers a variety of career paths for business analysis professionals, both new and seasoned

Professionals who understand business analysis and have a high degree of proficiency and competency can leverage those skills and experience in a variety of careers.

The Standard:

• Provides a quick, concise, and valuable introduction to business analysis
• Defines foundational terms
• Demonstrates the range of initiatives that benefit from good business analysis
• Emphasizes the equal importance placed on requirements and designs
• Identifies traceability as a way to connect a team’s work to the overall strategy
• Introduces the baccm as a construct for effective business analysis
• Emphasizes the importance of mindset as a prerequisite for good business analysis
• Illustrates that building the mindset requires deliberate application
• Identifies foundational competencies and technique
• Introduces 30 business analysis tasks within six knowledge area
• Provides examples of how the 30 tasks apply to numerous business contexts and across all types of initiatives