CCBA® and CBAP® Certifications Study Guide

Purpose

According to the BABOK^® v3 guide, the purpose of Manage Stakeholder Collaboration is the following:

"to encourage stakeholders to work toward a common goal."

The business analyst works with many different stakeholders across the breadth of the business analysis work activities. These stakeholders hold different levels of influence and power in terms of the approvals and buy-in of the work products or deliverables of the business analysis function. The stakeholders are also in many cases the primary source of information about needs and requirements and hence it is important for the business analyst to confirm the stakeholder's roles in a way that ensures the right stakeholders are involved at the right level and at the best possible ...