A business analyst will typically create a plan that outlines the elicitation, requirements analysis, and validation/verification efforts as well as clearly indicates who is responsible for what within the context of the business analysis effort.

The business analysis plan will often be driven by an organization’s business analysis methodology, which may be formal or informal.

The business analysis activities for the project will be based on a plan-driven approach in order to provide accurate and thorough documentation for placement in a request for Providing requirements that have been fully vetted by the stakeholders to the vendor community will provide better communication in the responses to the RFP, provide enough clarification for vendors to accurately bid costs to provide the requirements, and for ongoing discussions on system design to build the solution.

The techniques used to complete the business process improvement recommendations and the requirements will vary based on the deliverable that is needed during a given phase of the project. Stakeholder input will be considered based on time constraints and the effectiveness of the technique to gather the information that is needed.