Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), Version 2

BABOK®  v2 Knowledge Areas

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Enterprise Analysis Elicitation Requirements Analysis Solution Assessment and Validation Requirements Management and Communication

Underlying Competencies

The public review of version 2 of the BABOK is now complete. We would like to thank all of the people who have provided feedback to date. Once the expert and practitioner reviews are complete, the BABOK team will begin making the revisions necessary to develop a final draft.

Over the next few months, the IIBA will conduct additional surveys to assess the importance of each task and technique to the business analysis community in order to make a final determination of the content that will be included in the final draft. In conjunction with the public review, we are conducting practitioner and expert reviews which will provide us with additional qualitative feedback on the content and quality of this release. When all of the reviews are complete, we will begin revising the text of the BABOK to include the changes suggested by the community, with the final release of version 2 targeted for the third quarter of 2008. The CBAP™ exam will continue to be based on version 1.6 until the final release of version 2. Once version 2 is generally available, the IIBA will announce a date for conversion of the exam.

Thank you for helping us ensure that the BABOK serves the needs of the business analysis community.