The BABOK® Guide is organized around six key knowledge areas:

• Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring: The tasks within this knowledge area govern the business analysis work to be performed on an initiative. It involves planning the business analysis approach, stakeholder engagement, governance, information management, and performance assessment.
• Elicitation and Collaboration: These tasks describe how business analysts work with stakeholders to identify and understand their needs and concerns, gather information, and collaborate to define solutions.
• Requirements Life Cycle Management: These tasks describe how business analysts manage and maintain requirements and designs. They involve tracing, prioritizing, assessing changes, and approving requirements to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Strategy Analysis: This knowledge area focuses on understanding the strategic context of an initiative and defining the business needs that the change is intended to address.
• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition: These tasks describe how business analysts specify and model requirements and designs, ensuring that they are clear, complete, and feasible.
• Solution Evaluation: This knowledge area focuses on evaluating the performance and value of a solution after it has been implemented and recommending improvements.

The BABOK® Guide describes five common perspectives that influence business analysis work:

• Agile: Emphasizes iterative development, close collaboration with stakeholders, and rapid delivery of value.
• Business Intelligence: Focuses on transforming data into actionable insights for decision-making.
• Information Technology: Addresses the technological aspects of solution development and implementation.
• Business Architecture: Provides a holistic view of an organization's structure, processes, and capabilities.
• Business Process Management: Centers on optimizing and automating business processes.

Each knowledge area is further broken down into specific tasks that are discrete pieces of work performed by business analysts.

The BABOK provides a description of the tasks but their application can vary based on the initiative and the individual business analyst.  That's where FOBA comes into your learning plan.

Download our BABOK V3 summary to see a list of all tasks listed across the knowledge areas of the BABOK.

Techniques are the methods business analysts use to perform tasks.

The BABOK provides a comprehensive, but not exhaustive, list of common techniques that Business Analysts can apply.

Business analysts have the flexibility to adapt these techniques or create new ones based on the situations they face. FOBA teaches students how to apply and innovate in this area.

Download our BABOK V3 summary to see a list of all techniques listed across the knowledge areas of the BABOK.

The BABOK provides a comprehensive, but not exhaustive, list of outputs that Business Analysts can produce.

FOBA teaches students how to produce the key outputs that define the foundational BA skillset.

Download our BABOK V3 summary to see a list of all techniques listed across the knowledge areas of the BABOK.

The BABOK provides guidelines related to knowledge areas, tasks, and tools, among many other aspects of business analysis.

FOBA teaches you to apply our guidelines in realistic project-based scenarios.

Download our BABOK V3 summary to see a list of all the guidelines the BABOK provides.