BABOK purpose

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The primary purpose of the BABOK® Guide is to define the profession of business analysis and provide a set of commonly accepted practices. It helps practitioners discuss and define the skills necessary to effectively perform business analysis

work. The BABOK® Guide also helps people who work with and employ business

analysts to understand the skills and knowledge they should expect from a skilled

practitioner.

Business analysis is a broad profession in which business analysts might perform

work for many different types of initiatives across an enterprise. Practitioners may

employ different competencies, knowledge, skills, terminology, and attitudes that

they use when performing business analysis tasks. The BABOK® Guide is a

common framework for all perspectives, describing business analysis tasks that

are performed to properly analyze a change or evaluate the necessity for a

change. Tasks may vary in form, order, or importance for individual business

analysts or for various initiatives.

The six knowledge areas of the BABOK® Guide (Business Analysis Planning and

Monitoring, Elicitation and Collaboration, Requirements Life Cycle Management,

Strategy Analysis, Requirements Analysis and Design Definition (RADD), and