The PMI guide to business analysis

This standard illustrates how project management processes and business analysis processes are complementary activities, where the primary focus of project management processes is the project and the primary focus of business analysis processes is the product. This is a process-based standard, aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).

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The Standard for Business Analysis is a new PMI foundational standard, developed as a basis for business anal-ysis for portfolio, program, and project management. This standard illustrates how project management processes and business analysis processes are complementary activities, where the primary focus of project management processes is the project and the primary focus of business analysis process-es is the product. This is a process-based standard, aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) sixth edition, and to be used as a standard framework contributing to the business analysis body of knowledge.