how he builds the bridge !
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Business Analyst
How he builds the bridge !
10/04/2015
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Amazing Facts
Russia is the largest country in the world
Bigger than planet Pluto in surface
Spans over 9 time zones
Bangladesh is in the 94th position according to size, but has 9 million more people than Russia.
Finland is a European country and North Korea is a east Asian country but Russia is the border for both these countries
Russia
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Agenda !
• Who is a Business Analyst ?
• The BA Spectrum
• What does a BA do ?
• Skills of a BA
• Artifacts and tools used by a BA
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Look familiar ?
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Who is a Business Analyst ?
Credit Analyst
Financial Analyst Business Analyst
Risk Analyst
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Who is a Business Analyst ?
A business analyst is someone who analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology.
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The BA Spectrum
Technology End Business End
Analyst Programmer Business Architect Business Consultant
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Product BA or a Project BA ?
Product Companies
• Product Companies have already built products (off the shelf).• What they do is to sell the product ASIS or do customizations on top of the
product.• Generally works in a specific domain.
Project Companies
• Project Companies do not have already build products.• What they do is to build a brand new customer specific product and each
instance differ from each other.• Generally works in different domains.
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What does a BA do ?
• Analyze information received through different channels and large number of people.
• Responsible for eliciting the actual needs of stakeholders, not simply their expressed desires.
• Facilitate communication between organizational units.• Align the needs of business units with information technology.• Serve as a “translator” between business units.
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What does a BA do ?
• Engage in Pre-Sales activities. (Pre Sales BA).• Ask questions , ask the same question again , ask the same question in a
different way.• Explain what you understood in a written , verbal or a visual manner.• Communicate the identified requirement to other team members.• Communicate the limitations and impossibilities to the client.• Drive the client in the right direction.• Drive the project in the right direction. • Meet global clients.
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Are you BA skilled ?
Business Knowledge
Interaction Skills Software Applications
Communication Skills
Behavioral Characteristics
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
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Are you BA skilled ?
— Analytical Thinking and Problem
Solving• Creative thinking• Decision making• Learning• Problem solving• System thinking
— Behavioural Characteristics• Ethics• Personal organization• Trustworthiness
— Business Knowledge• Business principles and practices• Industry knowledge• Organizational knowledge• Solution knowledge
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Are you BA skilled ?
— Communication Skills• Oral communication• Teaching• Written communication
— Interaction Skills• Facilitation and negotiation• Learning & influencing• Teamwork
— Software Applications• General purpose applications• Specialized applications
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Artifacts and Tools
• Business Requirement Specifications (BRS)/System Requirement Specifications (SRS)
• Change Requests Documents ( CRs)• Change Request Logs• Data Dictionaries • Use Case Documents/User Stories • Requirement Backlog • Detailed System Requirement Specifications (DSRS)• UML diagramming tools (Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect etc ) • Process diagramming tools (BiZagi, Visio etc )• UI wireframe tools (Pencil , Creately etc)• Mind Mapping tools (MindJet etc)
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The Agile BA
• Product Owner/Product Manager.• Knows requirements in and out and their priority.• Assign requirements in to sprints and manage requirements for the forthcoming
sprints.
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Being a BA is fun
• Get more opportunities to go onsite than others.
• Get to work with different people and different cultures.
• Get opportunities to represent the company in events such as conferences, exhibitions.
• Everybody consider you as the expert and seek guidance from you.
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Gayan GarusingheSenior Business [email protected]