Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders
Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.