The study says on an average only 30% of projects get success globally. The remaining projects are either go obsolete or on hold for some or other reason. As we have discussed earlier, the business analyst is the liaison between the customer or business user and the remaining team members. He/she is one kind of link between all of them who need to keep communicating with everyone till the successful deployment of the project.
Here are the few things I have listed out a business analyst fail which may land a project in trouble.
- Poor Requirement Understanding
- Lack of communication among the team members and customer
- Ignoring the stakeholders
- Making Assumption
Poor Requirement Understanding :
A project starts with requirement gathering. So it is important for a business analyst to understand the business processes and its requirements thoroughly. Any kind of misunderstanding leads to big trouble. A business analyst is also responsible for preparing requirement documents and writing use cases for the application. So if he/she is not clear with requirement then there are high chances of the wrong documentation.
The purpose of a software development application is to serve the business need. A failure can be avoided at a very primary stage by understanding and gathering the requirements properly.
Lack of communication among the team members and customer:
A frequent scrum meeting with team members is a must. A role of a business analyst is to explain the requirements and business processes to the developers and testers. And also he is responsible to answer and discuss all the questions asked by the team members. But if this communication fails then there will be a big mess up with the project.
Ignoring Stakeholders:
A very common mistake business analysts do is to avoid communication with stakeholders. Stakeholder analysis is usually neglected by analysts because they expect project managers to complete this task but It is a combined effort of the project manager and business analyst, and more importantly, it should be revised very often.
Revision should also be the responsibility of the business analyst. Generally, in requirement analysis phase stakeholders are missing. So ignoring stakeholders means ignoring the requirements.
Making Assumptions:
It is quite a common human tendency to assume a few things. Automatically the person talks “I think”, “I wonder”, “It is like that”, etc. A business analyst must not start any work based on assumptions. He must ask proper questions if is not satisfied after listening to the business user.
For example, If you assume something and explained developers and again he assumed something else and developed the application accordingly then it is a big mismatch and leads to huge chaos.
Remember there is always an excuse for not delivering a successful end product
but thousands of efforts go into the successful delivery of the project. So being a business analyst you always have to keep track of all the things which all are required to get the desired outcome.