Business Analyst

In today's competitive environment accorss the world, both the large as well as the small organisations are realising the benefits of using Business Analysts on all or part of their application development projects.

A Business Analyst or a BA is a role which can mean different things to different people. In some companies, all the BA plays a technical role with very little business knowledge; while in other companies, the BA has a full understanding of the business with very little knowledge of the IT systems and architecture.

They Define and Scope Business Areas

The BA must be sure by which the project scope is clear as well as complete before the start of detailed required activity gathering. The BA may be given the scope pre-defined by the project sponsor or may be requiring responsibility for defining and documenting the scope as part of the requirements gathering task.

Defining as well as documenting the project scope requires the BA to understand why the project has been initiated, along with the objectives of the project. An important the part played by a person in bringing about a result of the BA to the project is the analyzing of the business problem without jumping to a solution.

Essential Skills Required:

Facilitation skills to bring multiple groups in proximity to scope project and get consensus.

The quality of being able to document the project scope using business terminology.

Project scope documentation techniques.

Elicit Requirements

The BA must estimate the nature, the type of project, the people involved, as well as the volume of information required; along with the determine how and where to find the requirements.

Analyze and Document Requirements

Typically there are many required activity. To organize them as well as make them easy to review, they are separated into parts into categories or groupings. It may be good to assign to a category requirements into Business, Functional, as well as Technical.