ISYS90049 Digital
Business Analysis
Week 12
Revision
Dr Winn Chow
School of Computing and Information Systems
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End of Subject Survey (ESS)
• Tell us if you think you have had a good learning experience in
this subject!
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Are you ready for the exam?
• Exam Type: LMS Quiz
• Open book
• 4 sections with a total of 11 questions
• The total mark for this exam is 60 marks, representing 50% of
your final assessment.
• Hurdle to pass the subject
• Sample exam
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Exam
This is an open book exam. While you are undertaking this exam you are permitted to:
• make use of the lecture slides (including soft-copy versions)
• make use of the tutorial exercises and solutions, as well as your assignments
• ask clarification questions of the instructors
While you are undertaking this assessment you must NOT:
• make use of any messaging or communications technology
• make use of any world-wide web or internet-based resources such as Wikipedia, Stackoverflow,
Google or ChatGPT and other search or AI services
• act in any manner that could be regarded as providing assistance to another student who is
undertaking this assessment, or will in the future be undertaking this assessment.
• copy and paste from any work that is not your own
The work you submit must be based on your own knowledge and skills, without assistance from any
other person.
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What have we learned?
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What is Digital
Business Analysis?
• Business analysis is the work of
finding digital solutions that
address the needs for the purpose
of delivering value to some entity.
7Source: Milani (2019)
What is this?
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9What is this?
Source: Milani (2019)
No clear responsibility
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What is this?
Source: Milani (2019)
Useful to prioritize a collection of causes
Bar chart where the height of the bar
denotes the impact of each cause
Superposed curve of cumulative
percentage (%) impact
Causes sorted by impact
Which cause(s) should be looked into first?
What is this?
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Stakeholders
Elicitation
Requirements Design
Implementation
Solution
Modelling
Need
Usable representation
Usable
representation
Business requirements
Stakeholder requirements
Solution requirements
Transition requirements
Production
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Requirement lifecycle
Elicit
Change Assess
Capture Prioritise Approve
Maintain
Analyse, iterate & refine
Work packages,
releases, etc.
In collaboration with stakeholders
Traceability
Business Analysis Value Spectrum
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• Strategy analysis provides context to requirements analysis and design definition for a
given change.
Strategy analysis tasks
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Analyze
Current State
Define Future
State
Assess Risks
Define Change
Strategy
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Which approach? Is it the most efficient and effective?
Key
Activities
Current state analysis
• Sets the baseline for the changes
• Answers two questions:
• Why does a business needs to change some aspects of
how it operates?
• What would be directly or indirectly affected by the
change?
• Potential change is triggered by problems or opportunities
(business need) that cannot be addressed without altering
the current state.
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What is this?
How does business earn profit?
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Customers
Business
Strategy
Value
Money
Customer Needs
Product or Service
Who are our customers?
How do we serve our customers?
Define future state
• The purpose of Define Future State is to determine the set of necessary conditions to
meet the business need.
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Business Need
What is this?
Solution
Scope
Change
Strategy
Solution
Potential Value
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