The Business Analysis Core Concept Model™ (BACCM™)

The Business Analysis Core Concept Model™ (BACCM™) is composed of six core concepts that provide a common language and guidance for effective business analysis.

IIBA.org KnowledgeHub Business Analysis Core Concept Model

Business Analysis enables change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders, while considering context.

The six core concepts in the BACCM are:

Change

The act of transformation in response to a need.

Need

A problem or opportunity to be addressed.

Solution

A specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context.

The worth, importance, or usefulness of something to a stakeholder within a context.

A group or individual with a relationship to the change, the need, or the solution.

The circumstances that influence, are influenced by, and provide understanding of the change.

Each Core Concept is:

Fundamental to business analysis and is equal and necessary.

Defined by the other five core concepts and cannot be fully understood until all the concepts are understood.

Instrumental to understanding the information elicited, analyzed, or managed in business analysis tasks.

The core concepts can be used to consider the quality and completeness of the work being done. Examples of how the core concepts may be used are described within each of the six Knowledge Areas.

Select a Knowledge Area to Understand How the Core Concepts are Used.

Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

The Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area describes the process of how a BA Professional determines which activities will be needed to complete the business analysis effort. The tasks within this knowledge area govern the business analysis tasks in all of the other knowledge areas.

Elicitation & Collaboration

Elicitation is the way in which information is derived from the stakeholders to discover the requirements for the solution while Collaboration describes two or more people working together to achieve a common goal or objective.

Requirements Life Cycle Management

Requirement Life Cycle Management describes the tasks that Business Analysis Professionals perform in order to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.

Strategy Analysis

At the enterprise or unit level, Strategy Analysis identifies, defines, scopes, and prioritizes projects and initiatives for the organization. It ensures that the undertakings align with organizational goals, objectives, and strategies. Effective strategic business analysis relies on sound business analysis tools and techniques.

Requirements Analysis & Design Definition

The Business Analysis Requirements Analysis & Design Definition describes the tasks that Business Analysis Professionals perform to structure and organize requirements discovered during elicitation activities, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution options.

Solution Evaluation

Solution Evaluation describes the tasks that Business Analysis Professionals perform to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal of barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.

While planning or performing business analysis tasks, consider how each core concept is addressed by asking:

	What are the kinds of changes we are doing?
	What are the needs we are trying to satisfy?
	What are the solutions we are creating or changing?
	Who are the stakeholders involved?
	What do stakeholders consider to be of value?
	What are the contexts that we and the solution are in?