A Business Analyst is an integral part of an organization that helps in the refinement of existing processes that spontaneously result in the improvement of the product and the services. With an eye on improving the key business areas, they coordinate with various stakeholders to aggregate their vision and engage in making necessary changes.

To make it easier, a Business Analyst is one who is skilled with business terms, structured, disciplined, and has the capability to identify the areas for improvement and take necessary steps to fill the gap so that the business can achieve its goals.

The core responsibilities of a Business Analyst are mentioned below:

  • Requirement Elicitation: This is one of the major responsibilities of a Business Analyst as this helps identify the business requirement, scope of work, possible assumptions, and risks in a project based on the information or data aggregated from the stakeholders. There are various requirement elicitation techniques that help in aggregating important information such as Brainstorming, Document Analysis, Focus Group, Interface Analysis, Interviews, Observation, Prototyping, Workshops, and Surveys.
  • Designing the solution: Upon analysis of the business requirement, a business analyst has to be involved in designing a solution that meets the business needs. The strategy is to entail an innovative and practical strategy to address the business needs.
  • Communication with various stakeholders: A Business Analyst plays an important role in liaising between various stakeholders involved in the project. A project involves technical concepts and to stakeholders involve both technical and non-technical members. Hence, a business analyst is responsible for communicating the technical concepts to each of the members.
  • Documentation: To be precise with the business needs, it’s important to create detailed documentation encompassing business requirements, workflows, user stories, use cases, etc. Apart from shaping up the project, it’s important to keep the documentation updated throughout the project development life cycle.
  • Project Management: A Business Analyst is also involved in Project Management by collaborating or coordinating with a Project Manager to derive the vision, scope of work, and deliverables. Simultaneously, a BA also assists in planning the project, estimation, and allocation of skilled resources.
  • Quality Assurance: Apart from the development of the envisioned system, a Business Analyst also participates in the testing of the entire system, user acceptance testing (UAT), and validation throughout the system. This ensures that the developed system meets the business needs and has the quality as envisioned.
  • Process Improvement: To ensure the system works efficiently, it is important to identify areas where improvement can be done and take necessary actions to reduce costs, increase efficiency, reduce errors, improve quality, etc.

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    March 22, 2024 at 10:24 pm

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