The nine building blocks of BABOK 10.8, how a business analyst uses them for current state, future state and change strategy, plus criticism and CBAP practice questions.
BABOK 10.15 data modelling explained: conceptual, logical and physical models, who uses each, the five elements, crow's foot ERD basics and CBAP-style questions.
The MVP technique from the Agile Extension still works. What changed is the price of building, the bottleneck, and which MVP types are worth running at all.
BABOK 10.14 sorts data mining into descriptive, diagnostic and predictive uses. One worked example, the techniques behind each, and how CBAP scenarios test it.
What BABOK v3 technique 10.14 Data Mining covers, its five elements, what the business analyst owns versus the data scientist, and how CBAP questions frame it.
What data flow diagrams are in BABOK 10.13: four elements, context and level 1 diagrams, Yourdon vs Gane-Sarson notation, a worked example, practice and CBAP questions.
BABOK technique 10.7 explained: need, desired outcomes, alternatives incl. do nothing, recommendation, where it sits in Strategy Analysis, and how real business cases differ.
Is Visual Models for Software Requirements by Joy Beatty and Anthony Chen worth reading for CBAP in 2026? What it teaches, how it maps to BABOK v3, and who should skip it.
