Comments on: How Can a Business Analyst Help You? http://practicalanalyst.com/2007/08/14/how-can-a-business-analyst-help-you/ Practical Insight for Business Analysts and Project Professionals Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:24:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Schaffner http://practicalanalyst.com/2007/08/14/how-can-a-business-analyst-help-you/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Michael Schaffner Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:00:10 +0000 http://jonathanbabcock.com/2007/08/14/how-can-a-business-analyst-help-you/#comment-406 Jonathan, An excellent list and very comprehensive. The only thing that I can add (which is already touched on in a number or your items) is that a good BA acts as a "translator". The BA understands both the business and the technical aspects and can help both sides communicate. Mike Jonathan,

An excellent list and very comprehensive. The only thing that I can add (which is already touched on in a number or your items) is that a good BA acts as a “translator”. The BA understands both the business and the technical aspects and can help both sides communicate.

Mike

]]> By: Adrian Marchis http://practicalanalyst.com/2007/08/14/how-can-a-business-analyst-help-you/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Adrian Marchis Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:40:09 +0000 http://jonathanbabcock.com/2007/08/14/how-can-a-business-analyst-help-you/#comment-403 Hi Jonathan, Great post! Since I manage a team of systems analysts one of the greatest roles that my team fulfills on a daily basis is the ability to quickly tell you what the system is supposed to do. How can we do that for a very large system? It's because we maintain "live" specs. Developers come back to us to ask how the system should work and so does the QA team for clarifications on creating the test cases. The Product Managers come to us when new features are requested because we can do impact analysis of the requested change without having to dig through multiple layers of code. Adrian Hi Jonathan,

Great post! Since I manage a team of systems analysts one of the greatest roles that my team fulfills on a daily basis is the ability to quickly tell you what the system is supposed to do.

How can we do that for a very large system? It’s because we maintain “live” specs.

Developers come back to us to ask how the system should work and so does the QA team for clarifications on creating the test cases.

The Product Managers come to us when new features are requested because we can do impact analysis of the requested change without having to dig through multiple layers of code.

Adrian

]]> By: Craig Brown http://practicalanalyst.com/2007/08/14/how-can-a-business-analyst-help-you/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Craig Brown Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:42:08 +0000 http://jonathanbabcock.com/2007/08/14/how-can-a-business-analyst-help-you/#comment-402 Nice list. Have you thought about how you culd use itto sell youself as a BA/Consultant into areas that aren't currently using your/your team's services? Nice list. Have you thought about how you culd use itto sell youself as a BA/Consultant into areas that aren’t currently using your/your team’s services?

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