Overview
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Role Description: Role Proficiency: Analyze the business needs of a client in order to recommend and evaluate solutions to those needs independently. Perform Business Analysis tasks independently and be able to guide junior BAs
Responsibilities
- Use analytical skills and judgment to identify, prioritize, structure and solve complex problems
- Work closely with customer to understand and define enterprise goals and objectives
- Contribute to sprint planning and estimation by highlighting dependencies, constraints, and business impact
- Be the face of the team to the customer and act as a SME for all business and strategic needs
- Understand and use BA knowledge areas appropriately as required by the business problem
- Analyze business needs and solutions; devise strategies and facilitate stakeholder collaboration effectively
- Validate and verify information to identify solution options that meet business needs
- Align the designed and delivered solutions with stakeholder needs
- Establish and implement effective requirement creation and management practices
- Champion requirements elicitation using techniques such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, and other methods
- Define the solution approach, identify opportunities, allocate requirements across components, and develop design options
- Define software quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and non-functional requirements
- Monitor the market for technologies and processes to manage BA information
- Develop training materials and tips for stakeholders to improve efficiency in using BA tools
- Coordinate with large or multiple teams across functions, issues, locations, and time zones
- Develop a network of SMEs inside and outside the organization
- Develop innovative approaches for using new tools, templates, and processes
- Develop engagement strategies to support organizational transformation
- Assist in driving transformational programs for the organization/customer’s enterprise
Outcomes
- Business value addition
- Communication effectiveness
- Customer feedback
- BA processes and tools improvements
- Reusable artefacts/methodologies for use across the organization
- Trainings undertaken/given
Outputs & Stakeholder Engagement
- Business Value: proactive identification of business problems and constraints leading to tangible benefits
- Stakeholder engagement: champion written and verbal communication related to the engagement; negotiate options vs value delivered with stakeholders
Requirements Engineering
- Develop and drive adoption of tools, templates, and processes for aligning requirements and design
- Mastery of BA tools to eliciting, documenting, and managing requirements
Solution Evaluation
- Use metrics and analysis to recommend appropriate solutions to business problems
Process
- Establish processes as required by the engagement and ensure team adherence
BA Artefacts Maintenance
- Document processes and project artefacts to high standards
- Communicate project artefacts to stakeholders
- Develop and drive adoption of tools, templates, and processes to aid decision making and approvals
Team Management
- Conduct trainings and workshops to grow the BA community
- Monitor junior BAs and suggest improvements in ways of working and learning needs
New Business
- Assist in identifying new business opportunities and solution recommendations
Skill & Knowledge Examples
- Analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills; strong ability to analyze problems and opportunities and understand impacts
- Behavioral characteristics: ethics, accountability, trust, organization and time management
- Business knowledge: understanding industry trends, processes, regulations
- Communication skills: adaptable and effective communication across stakeholders
- Interaction skills: collaborate with executives, sponsors, developers, vendors, and end users
- Tools and Technology: proficiency with BA tools, prototyping, modeling, and requirements management
- BA techniques: brainstorming, business cases, document analysis, interviews, workshops, use cases, user stories, backlog management, requirements traceability, etc.
Additional Comments
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