BA JOB PrOfile (Professional Business Analyst Training organisation)
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What is the role of a BA? • Acts as a liaison between business people, business problems and technology to create automated solutions. • Serves the Mission-Critical function of understanding specific business needs, determining and documenting accurate requirements. • An integral member of a project team possess skills - people and technical skills to be successful.
Important Skills
• Experience preparing business requirements, working with use cases, business process modeling or data modeling, or preparing use-case or sequence diagrams. • Project management skills
with Knowledge and experience in a
particular industry. • Technical understanding of system being analyzed and how it affects the various business units. • Multi-tasking skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities and keep up with project scope changes.
Important Skills Contd…… • Able to work well with both internal and external clients. • Self-starter with leadership skills in order to take charge of or facilitate requirement-gathering sessions. • Strong attention to detail organizational skills. • Quick learner who is easily able to learn new products, systems, applications and technologies.
Typical Duties 1. Technology-Based Solutions- Need to work with the IT solutions and need provide the solution, which is typically a IT-based application or product. 2. Giving Advice- BAs make conclusions out of proper evaluations. A bigger part of the profile is to explain tech-related details to managers, staff members, and other non-technical people from client’s solution point of view. 3. Finding Solutions to the Problem- Need to address a specific problem or test the functionality of the system developed for the client’s problem.
Business AnAlyst JOB DescriPtiOn
Activities • Guide stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieving project objectives. • Identify business process improvement opportunities. • Identify and define business requirements and Analyse and map business processes (current state/future state). • Prepare or provide input to business cases, feasibility assessments, etc • Produce high quality documentation. • Report status and issues to the Project Manager(s). • Analyse processes and data to identify gaps or perform process or data mapping.
Deliverables ďƒź Business Requirements constitute a specification of what the business wants. This is usually expressed in terms of broad outcomes the business requires, rather than specific functions the system may perform. Specific design elements are usually outside the scope of this document, although design standards may be referenced. ďƒź Functional Requirements describe what the system, process, or product/service must do to fulfil the business requirements. Note that business
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requirements and many functional requirements. These are also called System Requirements.
Deliverables Contd …. Non Functional Requirements are requirements that cannot be met by a specific function, eg performance, scalability, security and usability requirements. These are often included within the System Requirements, where applicable. Report Specifications are reporting requirements such as the purpose of the report, justification of the report, report attributes and columns, or runtime parameters.
Traceability Matrix is a cross matrix that traces the requirements through each stage of the requirements gathering process. High level concepts will be matched to scope items which will map to individual requirements which will map to corresponding functions. This matrix should also take into account any changes in scope during the life of the project. At the end of a project, this matrix should show each function built into a system, its source and the reason that any stated requirements may not have been delivered.
Knowledge Areas
The BA will display a detailed understanding of the following subject areas: • Requirements Elicitation, Analysis, Specification, Verification, and Management Practices and the Ability to apply them in Practice. • Familiarity with Requirements Engineering. • SDLC Models & STLC Models. • Application Domain Knowledge, for credibility with user representatives and to work effectively with them. • Awareness about IT-related concepts. • Documentation types and various formats with standards.