Business Analysis Core Concept Model™ (BACCM™)

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The Business Analysis Core Concept Model™ (BACCM™) defines business analysis as “the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders”.
The purpose of BACCM™ is to provide a common conceptual framework to business analysts so that they can perform and discuss their work in a common terminology that is independent of perspective, industry, methodology, or their levels in the organization.

 The BACCM consists of six core concepts: Change, Need, Solution, Stakeholder, Value, and Context. All core concepts are equally important and necessary. There is no ranking among these - no single concept holds greater importance or significance over any other concept. Each core concept is defined by and dependent on the other five core concepts and cannot be fully understood until all the concepts are understood.

Core Concept
During Business Analysis Planning and
Monitoring, business analysts...
Change: the act of transformation in response to a need.
are responsible for determining how changes to business analysis results will be requested and authorized.
Need: a problem or opportunity to be addressed.
choose a business analysis approach that provides adequate analysis for the change.
Solution: a specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context.
evaluate if business analysis performance was a key contributor to the successful implementation of a solution.
Stakeholder: a group or individual with a relationship to the change, the need, or the solution.
perform a stakeholder analysis to ensure planning and monitoring activities reflect stakeholder needs and account for stakeholder characteristics.
Value: the worth, importance, or usefulness of something to a stakeholder within a context.
conduct performance analysis to ensure business analysis activities continue to produce sufficient value for the stakeholders.
Context: the circumstances that influence, are influenced by, and provide understanding of the change.
ensure a complete understanding of the context under analysis in order to develop an efficient business analysis approach.
To know more about BACCM, please go through the BACCM Overview from IIBA.


Reference: BABOK v3 - from IIBA and Wikipedia.

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