What is Business Analyst (5%) Flashcards
Describe the business change Lifecycle?
- Begins with ensuring ‘‘alignments’’ of the business change initiatives with external Business environment and the Environment architecture and Business strategy for the organisation.
- The alignment provides context for ‘‘defining’’ the change in order to determine new ways of working that will improve the organisation efficiency and effectiveness
- Change activities are concerned with change ‘‘design’’ and development,
- Then the business acceptance testing and which leads into post ‘‘implementation’’,
- Finishes off with the benefits review and ‘‘realisation’’
BA Principles - Root causes not symptoms
-Means to distinguish symptoms of the problem and the root cause
-Investigate and address the root causes of the business problems
-Consider holistic view
BA Principles - Business improvement not IT system change
- Recognise that IT systems should enable business opportunities or problem resolution
- Analyse opportunities for business improvements
- Enable business innovation and customer experience enhancements
BA Principles - Option not solutions
- Challenge pre-determined solutions
- Identify and evaluate options for meeting business needs
BA Principles - Feasible, contributing requirements, not meeting all requests
- Aware of financial and timescale constrains
- Identify requirements that are not feasible and do not contribute to business objectives
- Evaluate stand requirements against business needs and contains
BA Principles - The entire business change lifecycle not just requirements definition
- Analyse business situations
- Support the effective development, testing, deployment and post implementation review of solution
- Support the management and realisation of the business benefits
BA Principles - Negotiation not avoidance
- Recognise conflicting stakeholder views and requirements
- Negotiate conflicts between stakeholders
Describe Variants of the Business Analyst role - Business BA/ Enterprise business analyst
- Their focus is on understanding business situations that need improving and the business requirements to be met.
- They engagements with their senior/junior stakeholders and focus on business systems redesign.
- Requirements are defined from the business solution perspective using conceptual model such as business use case diagrams
Describe Variants of the Business Analyst role - Technical Business analyst/ Business Systems analyst
- Their focus is on analysing the solution requirements and supporting the development of the software product.
- Requirements may be specified using techniques to model systems features, data and events (diagrams/ entity relationship diagrams, state machines and sequence diagrams)
Describe Variants of the Business Analyst role - Digital Business analyst
- Focus on the opportunities digital technologies offer organisation and customisation of customer services and experience. Extensive understanding of the business domain, customer experience requirements and technology.
- Need to think innovatory and embrace thinking approaches such as a systems thinking, service thinking and design thinking.
Describe Variants of the Business Analyst role - Project Business analyst
- Focus is on developing the software product.
- Which is about elaborating user stories in collaboration with business staff and product developers.
- PBA need to applicate a range of techniques to be able to elaborate and clarify business rules and non functional requirements relevant to the software product.
Describe Variants of the Business Analyst role - Proxy product Owner
- They take responsibilities for the management of the backlog of product requirements and features.
-Business representative during the development of a product who should be empowered to make decisions about product. - This role is established within Agile software development environments
