When you hear the words Business Analyst, a big company with a complex hierarchical structure most probably comes to your mind. However, severe market demands challenge both small and big companies to meet the criteria of mess-free process management and facilitated communication. This can all be achieved through implementing strong business analysis skills.

1. The Mysterious Process
of Business Analysis
Solved

2. A little bit about me…
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Beata Green
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3. W hat is
Business Analysis?

4. It is the process
of identifying
needs and
finding
solutions to
business
problems

5. Business Analysis precedes:
• Development of software systems
• Any substantial process improvement
• Strategic and policy changes within the organisation

6. The person responsible for the
business analysis process
is called a
Business
Analyst
(BA)

7. The BA’s responsibilities:
• Reviewing the business systems
• Finding ways to improve their functioning
• Documenting business requirements

8. Business Analysis Methods:
Process
Models
Story Boards
Data
Dictionaries
User Stories
and Use Cases
Mock-ups and
Prototypes
Business
Forms
Glossaries

9. Let’s take a closer look
at some of them…

10. Story Boards
They help to mimic the activity and illustrate steps in the process,
making the communication and requirements gathering easier.

11. User Stories and Use Cases
User stories, also called scenarios, describe what the user
needs.
Use cases describe
interactions between the
software and the user.

12. Mock-ups and Prototypes
Display important features of applications
before they are developed
Thanks to these
you can get a feel for
how the app will work –
before it is developed.

13. Glossary
All of the
organisation’s terms
and definitions for
better understanding
of what things mean in
the project.

14. Some of the Tools Used by BAs
For the creation of
static wireframes.
Allows us to prepare
quick views and
mock-up ideas.
Balsamiq
mockups

15. Some of the Tools Used by BAs
In UXPIN you can
prepare mock-ups and
also show interactive
prototypes and present
the process of design.
UXPIN

16. Some of the Tools Used by BAs
Used for modelling
the system’s
architecture and
processing the
implementation
of the models
in the application
development.
Enterprise
Architect

17. Enterprise Architect
• Manage
• Configure
• Administer all of the
components and tables within
database server
Is also used to:

18. Business Analysis
Thanks to this it is possible to avoid
surprises during development and
keep your costs under control

19. Need advice or
Business Analysis?
If you have any suggestions on software
ideas or questions relating
to Business Analysis
call us today on 020 7099 6399 or visit us
at www.HeadChannel.co.uk