The
task of recognizing & identifying business change requirements, evaluating
the effect of those changes, recording the needs, and supporting with
communication and delivery of requirements to concerned stakeholders of the
organization is termed as Business Analysis. Business Analyst’s
responsibilities include analyzing an organization diligently, documenting its
various business processes or systems, and helping the business model
integration with appropriate technology according to the context.
Significance of a
Business Analyst (BA)
There
is immense importance to the role played by a BA in any organization as he is
in-charge of handling all aspects of providing solutions, thus enabling it achieve
its goals. He acts as a liaison between stakeholders for understanding the
structure, principles, and processes of an organization as well as suggesting
solutions for all requirements.
The
BA leads in managing the solution scope of the projects taken up in the
organization, acts as communicator, and consultant for any given project. He
not only analyzes and monitors project activities but also elicits business
requirements and plans all analysis processes while controlling the solution
scope.
The Business Analyst
and the Project Team
BAs
are placed in position for particular reasons that impact organizational
effectiveness. Without the participation of BAs in the project team, projects
may take longer time and effort to complete, exceeding allocated budget and
schedule. This is often caused by the lack of defining project requirements and
documenting them properly for everyone to understand easily. Without support to
discern exact requirements, expensive rework may be necessitated, involving
loss of time as well.
BAs
must be introduced to the Project Team at the beginning itself, in order to
create a free workflow and to keep up time and costs under the wraps. They must
rather be looked upon as positive investments to facilitate better return on
investment of any business project.
How BAs improve the
Value of Project & Project Team
- Better
Communication Between the Business and IT: Key to project success is
transparency and proper communication between team members and
managers—this is assured by the involvement of BAs
- Finding
New Business requirements: Clear understanding of needs leads to proper
design of processes, and correspondingly, projects tend to run on schedule
and according to plans—BAs help in discovering the needs
- Needs
can be Prioritized:
Organizations have numerous processes and tasks pitching for human
resources as well as time. BAs exercise cautious and practical implementation
of segregating these tasks
according to their precedence
By introducing
Business Analyst to the Project Team, the organization stands to lower costs, add
value and improve project success, and ultimately enhance the organization’s
revenues in the long run.
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