Business analysts play an important role throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) by eliciting requirements, assisting with design, testing solutions, and ensuring requirements are met. The SDLC includes phases like planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Business analysts contribute in each phase, such as assisting with business cases, requirements gathering, reviewing designs, testing solutions, and managing requirements tracking. They help maximize business value by delivering solutions that meet requirements while mitigating risks and costs.

1. Business Analysts and SDLC

2. Topics Covered
• Business Analysis
• SDLC Model
• Business Analysts and SDLC

3. Business Analysis
• Business analysis is about identifying business
needs and recommending solutions to the
business requirements and needs.
• It is about the tasks and techniques followed by
business analysts in order to render solutions
while fulfilling the business needs.
• Business analysis explains about stakeholder
management, enterprise analysis, requirement
planning and management, requirement analysis,
solution assessment and other communication
skills of business analysts.

4. Business Analysts
• As per BABOK “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”.
• Business Analysts are also termed as system
analysts, requirements engineer, business system
analysts, process analysts, business architect,
process analysts, business process analysts and
many more depending on the organization and
the type of work they perform.

5. • Apart from the above list different other tasks
like project management, product management,
software development, quality assurance,
integration testing, system design depends
heavily on the business analysts.
• Business analysts identify and provide the
solutions that can maximize the organization’s
value.
• Business analysts are valued when they focus in
managing costs by mitigating risks, managing
requirements by filling the gaps. They should
understand the opportunities and learn to avoid
threats, work on the organization’s weaknesses
and gain from the strengths.

6. SDLC
• Acronym to Software Development Life Cycle.
• SDLC model is a framework that describes the list of
activities to be performed at each stage of the
project development life cycle.
• SDLC is specific to IT industry and more focused to
product development.
• SDLC model divides the development process into
multiple phases widely described as Planning,
Analysis, Design, Development, Verification or
Testing, Implementation and Maintenance or
Support

7. SDLC Models
Different SDLC models are:
• Waterfall Model
• Iterative Model
• Spiral Model
• V- Shaped Model
• Agile

8. SDLC Model Phases Description
• Planning
– Establish plan to develop system
– Identify, analyze, plan and prioritize the
information for the system development
• Analysis
– Define functional and non-functional
requirements
• Design
– Design System and identify specifications
– Design Functional features

9. SDLC phase description contd…
– Confirm system features with reference to the
functional.
– Confirm software specifications
• Development
– Build system as specified
– Peer Testing, Unit Testing
• Verification/Testing
– Conduct independent testing and evaluation
– Quality Assurance Testing

10. SDLC phase description contd…
• Implementation
– Establish product baseline
– Deploy the product
– User Acceptance Testing
• Maintenance
– Migrate the product to production system
– System support and Enhancements
Disposition phase can also be added to the
SDLC phases as this deals with archiving the
old data and retiring the aged systems

11. Business Analysts and SDLC
Business Analysts are significant part in any
product development life cycle. They remain
the part of the cycle start to end and help in
one or many ways like:
• Assisting with business case
• Business Planning and monitoring
• Requirements elicitation and define
requirements baseline

12. Business Analysts and SDLC contd…
• Support architects in design phase in software
specifications
• Design and/or review test cases
• Conducting Independent tests
• Trace the requirements and their completion
during the implementation phase
• Acceptance, installation, deployment and
defining scope for enhancements during
maintenance.

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