Business analysis involves identifying business needs and solutions to problems. It can involve software development, process improvement, organizational change, or strategic planning. Business analysts analyze organizations, documenting processes and systems to assess business models and technology integration. They identify stakeholders, assist with business cases, plan and monitor projects, clarify issues, prepare documentation and train users. Key skills for business analysts include communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, analysis, visualization, and facilitation. Business analysts investigate goals and issues, analyze information, communicate findings, and evaluate solutions. Backgrounds that can lead to becoming a business analyst include test analyst, project coordinator, administrative roles, and roles with business analysis responsibilities.

1. Business Analysis and
Business Analyst
By Kuolun Chang

2. What is Business Analysis?
 A research method of identifying business needs and determining
solutions to business problems.
 Including software systems development, process improvement,
organizational change, or strategic planning and policy development.
 The business problem could small as a project confliction or big as an
enterprise system collapse.

3. Major forms of analysis:
 Architecture analysis: Model the software and hardware architecture of an
embedded and real time system.
 Business process analysis: Provide project related solution to customers.
 Object-oriented analysis: Applying the paradigm and visual modeling
throughout the development life cycles to foster a better product quality.
 Structure analysis: Analyzing and converting business requirements into
specifications.
 Data warehouse analysis: Including Online analytical processing, online
transaction processing, and predictive analysis.

4. Who is Business Analyst?
 Analyzes an organization or business domain and documents its business
or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration
with technology.

5. Roles and responsibilities of Business
analyst
 Identifying stake holders
 Assisting with business case
 Planning and monitoring
 Preparation of proto types
 Clarifying Blocking/ Issues raise by Technical Team
 Preparing user manuals
 User training to end user product
 Requirements management and communication
 Requirements analysis

6. Skill required for Business Analyst
 Communication Skills
 Problem-Solving Skills
 Critical Thinking Skills
 Business Analysis/Business Analysis Tools skill
 Analysis Skills
 Visual Modeling
 Facilitation and Elicitation Skills

7. What does a Business analyst do?
 Investigating goals and issues
 Analyzing information
 Communicating with a wide variety of people
 Documenting findings
 Evaluating solutions

8. Future of Business Analyst
Source: Kathleen B. Hass, PMP

9. Jobs that Can Lead to a BA Job
 Test Analyst
 Project Coordinator/Analyst
 Admin to a CIO, CTO or Other Tech Executive
 Marketing/Operations/Reporting Analyst
 Customer Service or Technical Support
 Subject Matter Expert
 Any Role With BA Responsibilities

10. Business Analyst Job Title