The IIBA is pleased to announce that the draft of version 2 of the Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) is now available on the IIBA website for public review. This revision represents over two years of work by IIBA volunteers and incorporates the results of an expert review and the results of the first set of practitioner reviews.

We invite you and all other practitioners of business analysis, whether or not they are members of the IIBA, to download the draft text from our website and provide us with feedback on the quality and relevance of this material. Instructions on how to provide this feedback can be found on the BABOK version 2 page or in the Introduction of BABOK version 2. The draft text will remain available until May 15, 2008.

The "1.7" draft of the Solution Assessment and Validation KA is now available for download by IIBA members.

This content was completed after the creation of the CBAP exam and was not designed using the exam content as a reference. If you are studying for the exam you should continue to use version 1.6 as the basis for your study.

We know people have been waiting eagerly for the release of version 2.0 of the BABOK.

In June, a few of us gathered in Hartford, CT to integrate the BABOK. The team took all of the information we’ve gathered, including the feedback from our expert and practitioner reviewers, and evaluated the structure of each of the knowledge areas. We worked to define how each of the KAs fits into the larger picture of business analysis. The goal was to define the BABOK in terms of the “essentials” of business analysis. We also had to ensure that each KA was coherent, complete, and that it contained enough tasks to be a psychometrically cohesive unit for the purposes of certification.