Business Analyst

A stakeholder is responsible for determining a solution’s requirements.

A business analyst leads stakeholders to discover what they need from a solution, curates the needs into well-understood requirements, and confirms their understanding with other stakeholders.

Examples

Business analysts learn about organizations’ goals and values to curate requirements. They have a business needs mindset, deferring solution ideas until they understand all the requirements. They share this understanding with the development team, especially the architect.

Business Analyst References

  • Two Perspectives of the Big Picture

    Business analysts learn about the organization from the outside in. Then, as they analyze its requirements, they see from the inside out how the organization's domains work together to fulfill the organization's purpose.

    Understanding the organization, its domains, and its processes enables business analysts to connect solutions to their business value.
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  • Analysis Skills

    When interviewing stakeholders or leading discovery meetings, business analysts often get pain points, wish lists, and feature requests.
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  • Good business analysts understand, clarify and improve business requirements, keeping them connected to business value from discovery to deployment.
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