Handbook
BA knowledge areas (blueprint)
**Purpose:** Deep, **project-agnostic** guides for each BABOK knowledge area. Each file explains the knowledge area on its own terms, lists its tasks and techniques, and maps to PDLC phases P1–P6 and
BA knowledge areas (blueprint)
Purpose: Deep, project-agnostic guides for each BABOK knowledge area. Each file explains the knowledge area on its own terms, lists its tasks and techniques, and maps to PDLC phases P1–P6 and SDLC phases A–F.
Audience: Teams adopting Business analysis (BA); project-specific BA artifacts stay in docs/product/ and docs/requirements/.
| Guide | Focus |
|---|---|
| BA Planning & Monitoring | Planning the BA approach, identifying stakeholders, governing BA work, measuring BA performance |
| Strategy Analysis | Current state, future state, risk assessment, change strategy, solution scope definition |
| Elicitation & Collaboration | Preparing for elicitation, conducting elicitation, confirming results, stakeholder communication |
| Requirements Life Cycle Management | Tracing, maintaining, prioritizing, assessing changes, approving requirements |
| Requirements Analysis & Design Definition | Specifying, modeling, verifying, validating requirements; defining design options |
| Solution Evaluation | Measuring solution performance, analyzing gaps, assessing limitations, recommending actions |
Technique catalog: BA techniques catalog — master list of all BA techniques, cross-referenced from knowledge area guides.
Lifecycle mapping: BA ↔ SDLC ↔ PDLC bridge §2 — where each knowledge area applies in the product and delivery lifecycles.
Canonical source
Edit https://github.com/autowww/blueprints/blob/main/disciplines/product/ba/knowledge-areas/README.md first; regenerate with docs/build-handbook.py.