A business analyst is the one who analyzes and enables organizational changes either by IT product development or by improving processes by using different business analysis tools and techniques and thereby delivering stakeholder values.
- A business analyst has to be a liaison between the business team and the IT team.
- His role includes gathering of requirements -Gathering Requirements plays a very important role as it is the first necessary activity required to develop any software. A BA needs to question “why” so as to know why it should be developed and what is the scope of the project. Understanding business requirements play a vital role in any BA to correctly execute the project.
- After taking the requirements from the stakeholder, a Business Analyst needs to discuss with the team on how the work should be executed, how it should be moved forward, how long would it take to complete the project.
- After taking requirements from stakeholders, a BA should create backlogs, user stories, EPICS, tasks and need to work on documentation.
- Creating Sprints, estimating them and making the team choose the tasks and making them understand the tasks and importance of deadlines for a particular sprint.
- Attending Sprint planning meeting, sprint review meeting, daily scrum calls, Retrospective meetings.
- A Business Analyst is the one there to validate the functionalities during the deployment of the project as he is the one that knows the complete product functionalities.
- Documentation is one of the roles of a business analyst and he has to work on a lot of documentation right from the creation of BRD till the end of the project.
- Communicating with a wide range of stakeholders and addressing their requirements is also a part of a business analyst role.
- A Business Analyst should be able to analyze the business requirements using various tools and techniques thereby suggesting effective solutions solving critical problems.