CCBA® and CBAP® Certifications Study Guide

Purpose

According to the BABOK® v3 guide, the purpose of defining the design options is as follows:

"to define the solution approach, identify opportunities to improve the business, allocate requirements across solution components, and represent design options that achieve the desired future state..."

In a practical way, you can look at this task as the activities you will perform when you are working out which way to go in terms of implementing the requirements you have prepared in order to achieve the business value. This is referred to as identifying the design options.

Design options generally refer to the steps that will be taken to ensure the solution is delivered.

Design options are not the specific solution functionality but rather ...