A business analyst is a person who is an asset in his organization due to his knowledge of both – the technical know-how that is known to the software developers of the field and the understanding of the sector dynamics as known to the management professionals in the field. The crucial role of a business analyst has made the organizations to capacitate them through BA Professional Development programs.
A capable business analyst must have command over scope management, integration management, time management, cost management, quality management, resource management, human management, risk management and procurement management for Project success in optimum way. Business analyst may not necessarily exhibit his skills in all these areas, but if the project team is small the business analyst may be required to undertake the role of project manager.
There is some project skill that an analyst should have- understanding project initiation is vital as it allows the analyst to understand define the terms of reference for the project .It is important that the analyst should understand project management planning approaches. This covers a range of techniques that can be used to understand the business direction and the strengths and weakness of an organization, or part of an organization.
A business analyst always has to know both sides of the coin to be a good business analyst. By both sides of the coin, I mean, knowledge of the working functional processes in the industry the project is from, and the technical know how of how exactly the project will be handled by the team of software developers working on that particular project.
Knowledge of the working processes will help him understand the client who is also the end user's expectations better and knowledge of the technical know how will help him understand the Software requirements analysis at practical levels. This way he can draft the client expectations into the technical requirements more efficiently.
In the scenario, of dearth of projects owing to scarcity of clients, (a typical recession scenario)developing an excellent BA will enable consistent, repeatable processes, templates and deliverables to be deployed across an organization. It’s the organizations that have nurtured and developed their BAs who are experiencing huge returns through improved performance and increased quality of systems outcomes by investing increasing the capability of the BA community.

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