As of late my supervisor and I were having a top to bottom discussion about the various degrees of a Business Analyst (BA).
How would you make sense of a BA to be junior, transitional, senior, and sometimes, head/lead? Definitely an investigator’s perspective and capacity to comprehend assumes a basic job when characterizing what level that BA is at.
During the discussion, we went to a meeting room, where my chief attracted to hovers on either end of a whiteboard with a spotted line in the middle. On one side he composed ‘investors’ and on the other, he composed ‘information catches.’ He at that point requested that I fill in the specked lines with how the information catch influences the investors and give him where the BA fit between the different sides. The capacity for you as a Business Analyst to manufacture a start to finish picture in your psyche of the business you administration will legitimately show in the detail and nature of the yield you give as a Business Analyst.
In this article, I fill in the spaces and give you what else fills in the ‘moonshot’ as I call it.
Data captures in business are, generally, at the very end of the organization’s value chain, while shareholders, on the other hand, are those who have their money (value) in the game. How does a business give the shareholders more value? Generally through innovation, process improvements and doing things better.
Thus a board of directors (BOD) or executive committee (EXCO) will decide on the best strategy to increase value for their shareholders. In this article, we can assume that the executive committee has decided to offer a product via a mechanism that has given them an excellent reputation in the market, which would differentiate themselves from their competitors; make it easier for customers and reduce operational costs.
EXCO or the BOD have communicated this strategy to the senior management team in the organization and have made it a high priority as they believe this will allow them to attract a big percentage of the target market.
With the senior management team, EXCO has determined that to achieve their strategic objective, a mechanism in the business has to be rebuilt. EXCO and the senior management team then pull in the projects/IT team to help achieve this objective.
EXCO, senior management and the Projects/IT team defines the objective; the business owner of the project; the stakeholders; the scope, and the deliverables required by the project/IT team.
Furthermore, SME’s and specific employees are identified to ensure the rebuilding process delivers the relevant functionality.
You might ask, why is the projects/IT team out of line and where is the BA? The BA falls between the strategy and the users. I say it in this manner because the BA has to know why a project is being initiated and ensure the deliverables of the project/IT team align to the users/employees who will be directly affected.
The BA should understand the strategy; the purpose; the moonshot or the reason as to why a project has been initiated. Yes, some stakeholders will push their agenda, but it lies upon the BA to filter/manage requirements/instructions and ensure the project/IT team deliver according to the strategy/purpose of the project. The BA has to align the requirements of the end users to the strategy of the business and communicate this back to the project/IT team for them to deliver.
The better you comprehend the necessities about the procedure/moonshot, the more worth you can give. You can challenge certain prerequisites/changes, or you can propose necessities/changes that better line up with the client’s needs and methodology of the venture. You can more readily decide arrangements or acknowledge necessities missed by the end-client, hence guaranteeing a more precise deliverable by the task/IT group.
Creating a deliverable that doesn’t line up with the system or offer some benefit to an end-client can straightforwardly bring about zero an incentive for business and zero an incentive for investors. Hence move away from being a note taker and move towards turning into a Business Analyst!
Source: https://www.batimes.com/articles/big-picture-thinking-where-does-the-business-analyst-fit-in.html