وظيفة Business Analyst

Responsibilities and Duties

• Gather requirements from the key stakeholders by using requirement elicitation techniques like brainstorming, requirement workshops, focus groups, and others.
• Understand and help the project manager create the project’s business case by making sure all the high-level requirements are listed in the project scope.
• Identify the involved stakeholders by either getting the stakeholders list from the initial stakeholders or conducting a study to analyze who will be involved/affected by the project. Sometimes, a combination of both these techniques may also be used.
• Validate requirements by cross-referencing them with other stakeholders and try to get buy-in. It’s important to achieve a consensus against the requirements before actually start building the solution.
• Analyze and interpret requirements for their viability against the business objective. The last thing any client will want is a fully functional product/service that is not able to solve the problem the project was built for’.
• Document requirements by creating use cases, functional and requirement specifications documents. Also, Categorize requirements as functional (contains the features required by the end-users), non-functional (requirements for the performance and usability of the project) operational (operations that are carried out in the background) and technical and accordingly segregate them in different types of documents.
• Prototype and model requirements – An important step towards letting the end users ‘feel’ what they might get at the end of the project completion. Also, prototyping aids in solution verification, error identification and getting early feedback regarding the user interface of the project.
• Gain requirements sign-off from the key stakeholders by making sure all of them are on the same level of understanding against the requirements and then get written approval from them on the requirements to be developed.
• Overall, be the Requirement Gatekeeper and validate any new requirements for their effect and impact on the existing requirement set of the project.
• Aid in development and testing of the product – Business Requirements Analysts are frequently seen doing the unit testing of the features of their projects and are also assisting the testing team in test case preparation.
• Be a part of the Change Control Board – An optional responsibility wherein an event of any change to the requirement/s, the Business Requirements Analysts is required to first assess the need for the change, deduce the impact of the change to the complete project, propose any workarounds if possible and then along with other board members (usually the Business representative, PM, technical lead) collectively decide whether to go ahead with the change or not.
• Prepare end-user documentation/manuals – An optional task which the Business Requirements Analyst may have to do in case a formal Technical Writer is not available.
• Give client presentations, show and tell sessions, Overview sessions – Again, an optional task that needs to be covered by a Business Requirements Analyst in case the Project Manager or Project Coordinator is not available.