Core Competences Of Business Analysts And Data Analysts

The Role of Business Analysts in Project Management

Discuss about the Implementing Business Intelligence Systems.

Core Competences: according to the IIBA’s business analysis body of knowledge (BABOK), the business analysis can be considered as a set of techniques and task which can be used as a liasison among the various stakeholders. A business analyst (BA) can be considered as a person who performs the activity, which is related to the business analysis. The role of the business analyst does not depend upon the organization role of the job title (Bailey 2017).

According to me, most of the project management process fail due to the factor of not defining the requirement accurately at the beginning of the project life cycle. It can be seen that according to the survey that barely 30 percent of the software projects complete within the budget and on the other hand, 50 percent barely meet the aspect of the functionality which is expected. Therefore making a proper planning of the project should be the main point of emphasis. The role of the project manager can be considered very much important. In essence the role of the business analyst can be considered as a translator or liason between the user or the customer and the person or the group to meet the users need.

There are eight key competencies that every business analyst or professional performing the duties of a business analyst. The division of the task is associated with junior, intermediate and senior business analysts. If the activities, which are stated below, were performed properly it would be very much beneficial for the organization.

• Eliciting Requirement: one of the major jobs related to the business analyst is the job of documenting user application and eliciting. The requirement can be the condition, product, service for external and internal use. A client needs the requirement or user in order to solve the business related problems.
• Creating of the business requirement document: a business requirement document can be considered as an exhaustive document which all the facets of business user, regulatory, user, nonfunctional and functional requirement into the aspect of to –be and as –is sector of the working of the business. The business requirement model can be a secondary and primary user community and should come directly from the requirements the business analyst have already gathered.
• Structured analysis: the aspect of the structured analysis can be considered as a model. In the concept of the business analytics modeling us sued for the concept of enhancing and supporting the requirement, which is text, based. The concept can also be used for the aspect of organizing the information into ideas, which are coherent. The most common example, which can be related to the model of business analysis, are process model, business model, data model and the workflow models.

Professional business analysts play a very important role in the company’s efficiency, productivity and profitability. The essential set of skills range from the sector of interpersonal skill to communication to problem solving and critical thinking. The business analyst can hone the skills through the executive education program and eventually get a certified business profession (CBAP) certification from the international institute of business analysis.

I have mainly come across the different working area of the business analyst and after the identification of the roles I can stated that the role, which is played by business analyst, affects the overall working of the organization. According to me, the major functions, which are related to the business analyst mainly, involve financial planning, looking after the overall documentation of the organization, forecasting, problem solving, and gap analysis, designing and implementing the test of the different processes. The core skills, which are involved into the functionality of the business analyst, are stated below:

• Communication skills: The business analyst spend most of the time in interacting with the user, clients, developers and management. Therefore, it can be stated that a effective communicator is the key to achieving the goals. A project success may revolve around the ability of communication like the changes, project requirement, testing result and changes.
• Problem solving skills: Every project, which is being processed at its very core the developing of a solution relating a problem, is done. The business analyst work to build a shared understanding relating to the problem, outlining the different parameters of the project and determining the potential solution to the problem.
• Negotiation skills: A business analysis can be considered as an intermediary between varieties of people with the various type of personalities: developers, user, management, client and IT.
• Critical thinking skills: Business analyst must access the multiple choices before actually leading the team towards the goal or a particular solution. They can ask different types of question until a final position is reached where all the doubts regarding the projects are made clear.

There are different types business analysis model, which can be used for the proper implementation of the organization environment. Carrying out organizational analyses can be very much helpful for the aspect of thinking in a strategic manner about the business. The model, which is chosen in this concept, is the SWOT analysis.

There are different type’s tools which can be used for the purpose of analyzing the strategic option. The main focus in this scenario is the SWOT analysis. In order to benfit from the concept different data has to collected and working should be very much accurate so that the model would be beneficial. According to me, the model can be stated as a technique, which can be used for building various plausible view, which is relating to the possible futures for the business. On the other hand, it can also be used according to me for the concept of identifying the areas in which a business must succeed in order to reach the goals.

Key Competencies of Business Analysts

The SWOT analysis can be considered as one of the most popular strategic model of analysis. The concept, which is involved into the concept, looks directly into the aspect of weakness and strength of the business capability and any of the threat and opportunity to the business. Ones the identification of the entire concept are done the access to how to capitalize on the strengths and minimize the effect of the weakness. The main consideration which should be taken in this aspect should be make the best of the opportunity and reduce the overall factor of threats (Ahmed and Matulevi?ius 2014).

Its is very much important to remember that the various factors which are considered as opportunity can also become threat. This is due to the factor that the competitors undermining the position of the organization could dominate new market. Equally, it can be stated that the threats can also be opportunity for example a competitor growing quickly and opening a new market for the similar product or service could means that the market expands too. The concept of SWOT analysis can provide a clear basis relating to the examining the business prospects and performance. It can be used as a process of regular process of reviewing or in the concept of presentation for raising the financial or bringing the consultants for the review. Ones the overall information is collected regarding the threats, external opportunity and external opportunity it should be plotted down in a table.

The main aim should be the attainment if the competitive advantage by an organization depends on the concept how the organizational knowledge is being exploited and applied. This concept is not done taking into consideration the knowledge of the organization has. In actual it can be stated that the aspect of establishing a coherent and integrated knowledge management would be directly helping the organization in outer performing its competitors. The Relationship between organizational strategy and knowledge audit plan can be seen that knowledge audit, knowledge strategy and knowledge management are very much interrelated concepts which must be looked collectively to unsure that they are aligned and very much supporting the business strategy of an organization. According to mu research a number of future research opportunity may be valuable based on the assumption of the concept.

The business strategy is can be considered as the focus point in the Relationship between organizational strategy and knowledge audit plan. Business strategy can be considered as one of the blueprint, which can be used for the concept of predicting the future development of the organization and the plans a draft for the emergencies to meet the future and challenges which are uncertain challenges. It can be stated to be formulated by analyzing the competitive environment and the context of the environment upon the aspect of the execution of knowledge audit. These types of outcome may influence the knowledge audit sector taking Into consideration roles, people, culture, leadership and technology. On the other hand it can be stated that the concept of the knowledge management on an organization may influence the environment of the knowledge in terms of how the people communication and share the knowledge as well on the part of the behavior and cultural rules.

Core Skills of Business Analysts

The role, which is played by the data analyst, can be considered very much important due to the formation of the basic infrastructure of working of the organization. It can be stated here the business analyst take into consideration all the factors which are related to the working of the team which is working under him. The leadership concept can be very much justified in the concept of the business analyst due to the factor that most of the decision which play a vital role in the working of the project depend upon the data analyst and all the major decision are taken from their end.

I have known from the study that the role of the data analyst is not restricted to one major area. It covers a large area, which basically involves all the important aspect which play a very vital role in the overall working of the organization. The leadership aspect role drives the decision making power which is applied to the concept of the internal working of the organization (Patwardhan et al. 2016). The team building aspect provides the facility, which provisions the building up of the team, which would be involved in the overall working of the organization.

The business analyst is directly responsible for the growing of the team, which is in the same sector of analytics. Manager basically spend a lot of time in the approach of recruiting by means of looking into resumes , conducting personal interview and helping the organist ion to build up a proper infrastructure. The data analyst does not only look for a proper analysis skill person but he has the power of tuning in the strategic need of the organization, seeking out the candidates that are right for the culture. Hiring of a good talented person can be considered as a starting point of the task of the analyst. He has the role of putting the candidate into a proper place, which would be making him successful. The concept of developing the on board new business analyst can be considered as one of the aspect which is relating to the team management role of the business analyst.

Taking into consideration the aspect of leadership the business analyst can benefit from the concept of meeting with one to one with the clients. A good approach for this sort of meeting is to take the major important decision, which would be beneficial for the organization and helping them to excel in their field of expertise. Other topics that are used for the concept of validating may include the approach of the work, relation that is between the other project stakeholders and estimating both efforts expectation. These all concepts fall under the leadership power of the data analyst.

This scenario is mainly faced when a business analyst is assigned to a new project. The business analyst can sometimes think of the expectation, which is applied upon him, the main deliverables that is expected from the data analyst. There are mainly eight steps, which focus on the concept of the understanding of the business context relating to the role of the data analyst.

I can stated in the context of the understanding of the business context that most of time the business analyst have an idea of the overall working of the project which they would be given power into. On the other hand, sometimes they would be requiring some external knowledge, which would be involving some external time involvement.

The eight steps, which is related to the aspect of managing the understanding of the business context, are stated below:

• Get oriented: often the business analyst are expected to drive into the overall working of a project and start the contribution of the project from the day one. This can be considered as an aspect due to the need of positive impact of the project from the initial stages. On the other hand it can be stated that sometimes the business analyst do not have idea about the project and its working in such a case it would be requiring some time.
• Discovery of the primary business objectives: In most of the cases it is seen that the business analyst jump into the concept of defining the scope of the project. Majorly this can lead to different types of problem.
• Requirement: The requirement of the project should be taken into consideration by the business analyst at the start of the project so that in a later stage it would not be creating any type of problem in the aspect.

Elicitation can be considered as one of the areas that is extremely simple yet extremely complex. According to the BABOK 2.2, it can be stated that it is simple but within this short task the detailing is in the techniques and that is where it can be starting to look complex.

I have learned from the concept that the role, which is played by the business analyst, can be considered restriction with the implementation of ideas which are not so much beneficial from the point of reaching to the exact need of the customer (Sekaran and Bougie 2016).

There are nine elicitation techniques, which is defined in the BABOK for the concept of the business analyst, which are:

• Document analysis
• Brainstorming
• Interface analysis
• Observation
• Focus group
• Observation
• Prototyping
• Survey / questionaries’
• Requirement workshop.

Many of the new business analyst should be using all of the above techniques and worry about the are not getting elication right. The relation between the elicitation can be considered to be very much informal due to the factor that most of the time they would be getting the vital information through the concept of casual conversation.

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