Business Analyst

Questions: 1.In your own words describe what is a Business Analyst?2.Is the title just a fancy way of describing a Systems Analyst?3.What makes a good Business Analyst? 4.Business events are situations when System or Business processes may be initiated. How does the documentation of analysis, assist in the Development of Activity. Answers: 1.Business analyst is a person whose main objective is guiding business to equip technology in a profitable way through determination of requirement of a particular program or project and broadcast it to facilitators, and partners (Abbott, 2014). Contrary to production of plans, business analyst crops requirements (Abbott, 2014). 2.There is a huge difference between business analyst and a system analyst. System analysts are those who have deep knowledge of technology, which means that they can go to the pinpoint where changes are required in a code whereas business analyst may not have that huge knowledge of code but he/she understands what work is the code supposed to do (Ott Longnecker, 2015). A business analyst understands the language of both IT and the stakeholders. He/she acts as a interface between management and IT (Ott Longnecker, 2015). 3.The business analyst is not for sure a leader on the project still his/her role may be most diverse and at times and most necessary for the success of the project. A good business analyst must be well with technological knowledge, which means that he/she should have a good hold of technology. He/she must pay critical attention to detail, which means that business analyst must have thorough knowledge of the situation (Fleisher Bensoussan, 2015). He/she must be a skilled communicator, which means that he/she must be excellent at communication, as they have to deal with the stakeholders. He/she must be excellent at resolving conflicts. A person having possessing these qualities, can be called an excellent business analyst. 4.Business analysis is a research done in order to identify business needs and to determine solutions of the business problems (Banerjee, Carlin Gelfand, 2014). Preparing a document of the business analysis can be very helpful in further development of activities of the organization. Business analysis indulges requirement analysis or requirement engineering, which deals with determining expectations of the user for a modified or new product (Banerjee, Carlin Gelfand, 2014). It focuses whether the changes made in any part of an organization helps in the development of the organization. Analysis can be of many forms such as architecture analysis, business process analysis, object oriented analysis, structured analysis and data warehouse analysis (Chazaln et al., 2015). Preparing a documentation of analysis can be very helpful on development of the organization in various aspects, as the organization needs to focus on the strategic plans and matters. Documentation of the analysis help s to resolve the strategic, architecture and IT related issues as business analysis consists all of it (Huang et al., 2016). Use case diagram is a list of activities or steps, which typically defines the interaction between a role and a system in order to achieve a goal (Huang et al., 2016). The actor in a use case diagram can be either a human or any external system. Analysis done through use case is efficient and useful as it is the basic characteristics of many projects and it provides framework for many project activities. Figure: Use case diagram Source: created by author Domain class diagram is a static structure which describes the architecture of a system through showing the classes of system, their attribute and the relationship within objects. It is used for data modeling of an organization. It describes the basic element, interactions in the organization and the classes, which needs to be programmed (Sadaf Azam, 2016). These can be easily drawn if proper analysis of data is provided as documentation. The data analysis is the key element in preparation of class diagrams. Figure: Domain class diagram Source: created by author Documentation of data analysis is integral part of development of an organization as it provides all the basic requirements and data needed for the proper management of the organization (Sadaf Azam, 2016). It gives a clear, effective and correct view of the organization which enormously vital for understanding the hierarchy of the organization. Activity diagrams, related to the program flow plans are used in illustration of activities (Shukla, Keast Ceglarek, 2014). An activity diagram illustrates activities individually and here, activity represents a business process and action represents an individual step within an activity (Czopik et al., 2014). They are used for describing the business process, which describes the way that the business functions. In an activity diagram, it is made clear whether the actors are able to perform business use cases independently or together. Development of these diagrams can be done in various degrees and these can be refined systematically (Shukla, Keast Ceglarek, 2014). References: Abbott, D. (2014).Applied predictive analytics: Principles and techniques for the professional data analyst. John Wiley Sons. Ott, R. L., Longnecker, M. T. (2015).An introduction to statistical methods and data analysis. Nelson Education. Banerjee, S., Carlin, B. P., Gelfand, A. E. 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