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Role of System Analyst

The system analyst guides system development projects by providing direction. They define requirements through fact finding, prioritize needs with user consensus, and gather information. System analysts maintain analysis to design user-friendly systems, suggest flexible solutions, and quantify costs and benefits. They have technical and interpersonal skills including communication, problem solving, and understanding new technologies.

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Role of System Analyst

The system analyst guides system development projects by providing direction. They define requirements through fact finding, prioritize needs with user consensus, and gather information. System analysts maintain analysis to design user-friendly systems, suggest flexible solutions, and quantify costs and benefits. They have technical and interpersonal skills including communication, problem solving, and understanding new technologies.

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Module 1 FOUNDATION FOR SYSTEMS

DEVELOPMENT
Lesson 4: ROLE OF SYSTEM ANALYST
The system analyst (SA) is a person who is thoroughly aware of the system and guides
the system development project by giving proper directions. System analyst is an expert having
technical and interpersonal skills to carry out development tasks required at each phase.
Main Roles
1. Defining and understanding the requirement of user through various fact finding
techniques.
2. Prioritizing the requirements by obtaining user consensus.
3. Gathering the facts or information and acquires the opinions of users.
4. Maintains analysis and evaluation to arrive at appropriate system which is more user
friendly.
5. Suggests many flexible alternative solutions, pick the best solution, and quantify cost and
benefits.
6. Draw certain specifications which are easily understood by users and programmer in
precise and detailed form.
7. Implement the logical design of system which must be modular.
8. Plan the periodicity for evaluation after it has been used for some time, and modify the
system as needed.

Attributes of a System Analyst

The following figure shows the attributes an SA should possess:

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Figure 1-17. Attributes of a System Analyst

1. Interpersonal Skills
• Interface with users and programmer.
• Facilitate groups and lead smaller teams.
• Managing expectations.
• Good understanding, communication, selling, and teaching abilities.
• Motivator having the confidence to solve queries.
2. Analytical Skills
• System and organizational knowledge.
• Problem identification, problem analysis, and problem solving
• Sound commonsense
• Ability to access trade-off
• Curiosity to learn about new organization
3. Management Skills
• Understand users jargon and practices.
• Resource &project management
• Change & risk management
• Understand the management functions thoroughly.
4. Technical Skills
• Knowledge of computers and software
• Keep abreast of modern development.
• Know of system design tools.
• Breadth knowledge about new technologies.

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