what is mean by bussiness analyst?

Answer Posted / sumi

A business analyst or "BA" is responsible for analyzing the
business needs of their clients and stakeholders to help
identify business problems and propose solutions.

The International Institute of Business Analysis has the
following definition of the role: "A business analyst works
as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit,
analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes
to business processes, policies and information systems.
The business analyst understands business problems and
opportunities in the context of the requirements and
recommends solutions that enable the organization to
achieve its goals.
Other activities and skills of BA are:-
-Identify and resolve issues

-Manage the risks

-Liaise with other project areas to coordinate
interdependencies and resolve issues

-Liaise with various business units to gather requirements
and resolve issues

-Improve business processes

-Gather and define business requirements

-Analyze and map processes (current state/future state)

-Analyze data

-Produce high quality documentation

-Report status and issues to the Project Manager(s)

-Contribute to enterprise architecture development from a
business needs point of view

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