Business Analysis For Dummies

Chapter 11

Creating Your Work Plan

In This Chapter

Understanding the importance of business analysis planning

Examining the key components of a business analysis work plan

Knowing how the people, project characteristics, and project impact your plan

Working with a project manager and dealing with unforeseen changes

You may think the mandate “make a work plan” is part of the project manager’s (PM’s) role because the PM is responsible for the overall plan of the entire project. But as the one involved with business analysis on the project (whom we refer to as the business analyst [BA]), you’re responsible not only for making sure that your activities — eliciting, analyzing, and communicating the requirements — are strategic and fit together in a detailed plan of their own but also for working with the PM to ensure that your efforts fit it into the overall project plan.

Planning, like other business analysis tasks, is a team event. You shouldn’t sit in a room alone, think through all ...