A business analyst (BA) works for a financial institution that wants to acquire new systems and migrate all future business operations to the new systems. The BA is responsible for performing a gap analysis and has reviewed the current state of systems.
What is the next task that the BA needs to do to complete the gap analysis?
To complete a gap analysis, it is essential to understand the difference between the current state and the desired future state. Since the business analyst has already reviewed the current state of the systems, the next logical step is to define the future state capabilities. This will allow the analyst to clearly identify what changes or improvements are needed to transition from the current state to the desired future state.
BABOK v3 6.4.4.2 states that to perform gap analysis, both current state and future state should be defined. As current state is already defined here, hence future state should be the next step for BA to define in order to proceed to gap analysis.
A gap analysis identifies the difference between current state and future state capabilities. To perform gap analysis, both current state and future state should be defined.