The competencies required of a business analyst can vary depending on the organisation, industry, and specific job requirements. However, here are the common competencies that are typically expected of business analysts.

Business analysts help solve organisational problems. When an organisation needs to solve a current or future problem it is a business analyst’s job to help facilitate a solution.

Well defined business requirements help you avoid expensive mistakes. Without them, your project will be like a ship without a rudder. It can’t get any more important than this.

The other day I had been working intensely to deliver some work to a client. It was mid-afternoon, I had a lot to do and I hadn’t taken a proper break all day. My head was full of wool and my eyes were popping out of my head from staring at the screen. I was fading fast and I needed coffee.

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In this post you'll find a list of the 5 major business analyst deliverables in waterfall for defining and designing a technological solution for business. These deliverables, or components of them, are the critical outputs of business analysis work. It is important that the business analyst gets familiar with these deliverables and how to elicit them.

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Understanding the type of project, the problem you're solving, or the solution you are delivering will inform the types of documentation to be produced.

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This is a powerful method for developing assessment criteria for scoring a range of implementation options.

Discover requirements with ease with over 700 elicitation questions at your fingertips. Effective stakeholder engagement and elicitation is the business analyst’s bread and butter. It’s so important that Laura Brandenburg (CBAP) came up with over … Read more