Building Business Analyst Practices

Every project needs someone who is good at analyzing requirements, communicating with stakeholders and smoothen the development works. This post is for Business Analysts (BA) to echo the importance of the role and on the foundation skills that extent from relationship skills to analytical skills. It is important to go back and look in ourselves every so often, so we don’t forget how important we are and the skill sets we need to succeed.

Why BA Skills Important:

Without the skills of Business Analyst, the time to exercise them and access to stake holders, it is likely that systems and procedures will be undefined and not subject to regular review and improvement efforts. It is also likely that project(s) will stretch on because requirements have not been fully and accurately defined.

Get to know the Role of Business Analyst and understand the role expectations. There are people who shifted the career in to Business Analyst (BA) in IT Industry will definitely vouch for its success.

Having  domain experience is not the only gateway to be a BA but the more important factor is to have the understanding of the business process and how to cater the business needs. When you have fair understanding of requirement, documentations based on analysis, and tools and techniques, the domain knowledge can never be a barrier in his / her growth as a Business Analyst.

BA Skills:

1)      Have capability to use variety of tools & methods to explain about organizations, their processes, products and prepare for the anticipated changes from different perspectives

2)      To facilitate communications among the stake holders

3)      To analyze and create the necessary documents

4)      Understanding the organization, people and technology

5)      Ability to assess the technology’s importance and interface between humans and machines

Managing BA requirements:

How do we manage to get this essential BA Role played, particularly in budget & staff constrained organizations? Large & Rich organizations have definitely realized the value of the role Business Analyst.   Proactively train your development team members for the BA requirements or get trained people on Boarded before project kick-off.