A project's business requirements require that the new solution reduce the labor costs currently attributed to performing end of month accounting…

The domain subject matter expert will provide the verification that the approach to the process

design is feasible for the staff who perform the end of month accounting procedures. According to

the BABOK Guide, a domain subject matter expert is “a stakeholder who has specialized knowledge

of a business domain or area of expertise that is relevant to the change or the solution” 4. The

domain subject matter expert can provide the business analyst (BA) with the necessary information,

feedback, and validation regarding the current and desired state of the accounting process and the

impact of the new solution on the staff. The implementation subject matter expert, the operational

support, and the project sponsor are also important stakeholders, but they do not have the same

level of expertise or authority as the domain subject matter expert in this case. Reference: 4: BABOK

Guide, Version 3, Section 2.4.2 Domain Subject Matter Expert