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Business Analysts Typically Take The Lead Role in

The document discusses the role of a business analyst. Key responsibilities include assisting with business cases, planning and monitoring projects, eliciting and managing requirements, and translating requirements to communicate user needs clearly. Business analysts help organizations adapt to change by facilitating projects that develop new products and services. They work to extract, anticipate, constrain, organize, translate, safeguard, simplify, verify, and manage requirements throughout a project's lifecycle.

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Business Analysts Typically Take The Lead Role in

The document discusses the role of a business analyst. Key responsibilities include assisting with business cases, planning and monitoring projects, eliciting and managing requirements, and translating requirements to communicate user needs clearly. Business analysts help organizations adapt to change by facilitating projects that develop new products and services. They work to extract, anticipate, constrain, organize, translate, safeguard, simplify, verify, and manage requirements throughout a project's lifecycle.

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Who is Bussiness Analyst?

Developing technical solutions to business problems, or to advance a company's sales


efforts, begins with defining, analyzing and documenting requirements. Managing
requirements at the project level can help fulfill business needs. Business
analysts typically take the lead role in: Assisting with the business case.

Role of Bussiness Analyst

An organizations adaptability, agility, and ability to manage constant change through


innovation can be keys to success. Business analysts can make it all happen more efficiently
and effectively to achieve goals through projects that translate customer needs into new
products, services, and profits

The business analyst's primary objective is to communicate user requirements clearly to


stakeholders, facilitators and partners

Proactively resolves customer satisfaction issues

Negotiates contracts, manages relationships, and monitors vendor performance against SLAs

Business analysts typically take the lead role in:


o Assisting with the business case

o Planning and monitoring

o Eliciting requirements

o Requirements organization

o Translating and simplifying requirements

o Requirements management and communication

o Requirements analysis

The goal is to master the skills needed to:


o Implement advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data
requirements

o Prioritize requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups

o Master strategic business process modeling, traceability and quality management


techniques

o Apply best practices for effective communication and problem-solving

Ten key roles and responsibilities


Extract, Anticipate, Constrain, Organize, Translate, Safeguard, Simplify, Verify, Manage,

System and operations maintenance - Once all requirements have been met and the IT
solution delivered, the business analysts role shifts to maintenance, or preventing and
correcting defects; enhancements, or making changes to increase the value provided by the
system; and operations and maintenance, or providing system validation procedures,
maintenance reports, deactivation plans, and other documents, plans and reports. The
business analyst will also play a major role in analyzing the system to determine when
deactivation or replacement is required.

Required

Education and Experience

Broad IT domain experience in three or more of the following areas IT areas:


Applications Development, Enterprise Architecture, Project Management, Vendor
Management, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Maintenance and Support

Bachelors degree in any field

Advanced degrees are preferred

Demonstrated ability to communicate in both verbal and written


communication

Demonstrated analytical skills

Basic understanding of information technology and business concepts

Familiarity with general business functions

Problem solving and strong communication skills Describe the responsibilities,


time allocation, and background that make a candidate a good fit for the BA role.

Time Allocation

30% capturing business needs and shaping requirements through dialogue


with business sponsors, 20% understanding end-user requirements,

25% working on solution design and communicating with solutions team,

10% project management,

10% integration planning/dependency management/business process


mapping, and

5% supporting testing.

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