Business Analyst Role in Product based company:

Let us observe Business Analyst Role in product based company, When Business Analyst is working in product-based company, then he needs to understand the product of the company, like how it works and functionality of the product. Then only he can able to provide the suitable solutions to client. If Business Analyst not have the enough knowledge on his own product then he can’t convince the stake holders. Because of this stake holders may lose the confidence on the Business Analyst.

If you want to prove as a good business analyst, then you should build a good relationship with internal and external stake holders, it is possible when business analyst has knowledge on product.

Leet us discuss in detail below.

What is product-based company:

Business Analyst Role

IT company will have the concept and they invest time and money to build the product. IT company team will work to deliver this product. IT company initiates the development and company is the owner for this developed product. Then company sales team will sell the same product to multiple clients or customers. Customizations and configuration changes may be done as per the client requirement. Here Business Analyst needs to understand what changes to be done in existing product as per client requirement and where it fits. Business Analyst needs to understand that it should affect the functionality of the application.

Deployment will be done at client place: Business Analyst ensure to deployment should be done with out any issues, Business Analyst should coordinate with internal and external stake holders during deployment. Business Analyst should ensure that all the stake holders should be available during the deployment of the product, so that we can investigate and fix the issues or bugs if anything observed by the client during deployment.

Example for Product development IT companies: Oracle, IBM, SAP, CRM etc.,

Briefly we will see here Business Analyst Role in Product Development Company:

• Understand the product features
• Understand the product domain
• Understand the client requirements
• Understand what customizations are needed to this product to fit in the client requirements.
• Understand where this product fits in the Domain
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I feel this helps you to understand the Business Analyst Role in Product based company.

What is Application Development Company:

Here client will have the requirement, and client will coordinate with IT company to develop the IT application. Client initiates the development; IT company will share the updates and status of the development of the IT application to the client during meetings and when client asked for status of the development. Client is the owner of the developed application.

Client will be the only customer for this application because application has been developed as per this customer requirements only and client is the owner. Deployment will be done at the Clients place.

Business Analyst needs to understand the client industry and domain to provide suitable solutions.

I feel this helps you to understand the Business Analyst Role in Application Development company.

Pallavi

Business Analyst , Functional Consultant, Provide Training on Business Analysis and SDLC Methodologies.

www.bacareers.in

Business Analyst Skills / Skills required for Business Analyst

Many people are looking for business analyst role, here we will see what are the skills needed  for business analyst role to prove as a good business analyst.

Before going to learn about Business Analyst, I feel it is good to know Business Analyst Skills

A good team player:  

Business analyst needs to interact with different teams and coordinate for the development activities, it is very important to a good team player, he needs to involve in the project in all the levels, for example: design, development, UAT and implementations.

A good listener: 

Business Analyst should have patience and listening skills. He should listen what others are saying, should not disturb when others are saying something during discussions are meetings. Only when you listen, you understand your clients better and of-course the requirements.

Good Communicator: 

Generally people relate communication to speak in English, this is not correct. A good communicator will not only speak good English but also ensures the communication is well received by the intend audience. This is very important, because when you are communicating with stakeholders and you are using very tough words then communication may not reach to the stake holders and they may think in different way. Communication should be simple and understandable.

Quick learner: 

if you are working in a new domain should be able to understand quickly. Understand the problem statements of clients, pain points of the business process etc. Because if we are unable to understand what client is saying then we can’t communicate the same to internal stake holders and we can’t provide solutions to the client.

And continuously we need to concentrate on updating our skills like domain knowledge or related software knowledge, coding and development is not a mandatory skill for business analyst, but still if we have some knowledge then we can easily manage the stake holders.

Many people looking for Business Analyst role has a wrong understanding, they think – just because Business Analyst is a non technical role, they can be business analyst. This is totally wrong.

Some people also think that, Business Analyst job is to do only documentation; hence it is very simple and easily doable job. Again this is a wrong understanding.

List of activities performed by the business analyst mentioned in another post.

My intention is to make you understand what are Business Analyst Skills it does not mean that only mentioned are Business Analyst Skills, these are most important Skills to deal with the stakeholders.

Skills of Business Analyst

Business Analyst Skills

Can read below to understand Business Role and Responsibilities in project.

Business Analyst Role in Agile Project

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Business Analyst Role in project

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Business Analyst Skills : FAQs

Pallavi

Business Analyst , Functional Consultant, Provide Training on Business Analysis and SDLC Methodologies.

www.bacareers.in

Can I become a Business Analyst:

Generally when we are looking for BusinessAnalyst career, our first question in our mind is “Can I become a Business Analyst and what are the skills needed to become a BusinessAnalyst. Here we will look into the BusinessAnalyst skills what are needed.

Yes, anyone can become BA irrespective of knowledge and skills, but we need to learn and understand who BA is and what are the skills needed to prove as a good BA.

Soft skills :

• Communication skills : Communications skills means not only speaking in English, As a BA we need to know what to talk and what not to talk. BA should be able to communicate with team what he captured from the client and stake holders properly.
• Problem solving skills
• Listening Skills
• Team work and collaboration

Domain Knowledge:

When we are communicating with stake holders, they will expect the same level of knowledge from us, so if we have domain knowledge then it will help us to understand client needs, issues and system functionality.  It will help us to provide suitable solutions to client.

For example, if we are working on the banking project and we do not have knowledge on banking then it is difficult to understand what client is saying and expecting from us.  So, there is a chance to understand the client requirements in different way, if we understand in different way then we will communicate the same to our internal stake holders.  So, team will work on the same. It may lead to project failure.

Here intention is not to say everyone should have domain knowledge and without domain knowledge we can’t be a good BA, if you can able to understand client needs and can communicate to internal stake holders and provide suitable solutions to client then we can prove as a good BA.

but if you have domain knowledge then it is good for you to understand the business needs and issues easily.  And we can easily communicate with end users.

In addition to that BA needs to understand what are challenges we may face and what are the business challenges.

Analysis/Technical skills.

This will help to run project without any operational issues.

For Ex:

• Risk Analysis,
• Gap Analysis

Is  technical skills needed for Business Analyst:       

Definitely it is a advantage if you have some technical knowledge, but it is not mandatory to become a BA major role to understand and gather the requirements from the client and he should be able to convey the same with technology team, and provide suitable solutions to achieve client goals.

If you are storing in domain knowledge and have experience in some domain then you need to concentrate on SDLC approaches, how it works and how to manage the stake holders and how to convey the requirements to technology team.

If you are a technology person and wants to become a Business Analyst then need to concentrate domain knowledge, how to manage the stake holders.

If you are a fresher and wants to become a Business Analyst, then needs to concentrate on both Domain knowledge and SDLC.

Can I Become a Business Analyst

Can read below to understand Business Role and Responsibilities in project.

Business Analyst Role in Agile Project

Business Analyst Daily Tasks

Business Analyst Role in project

Day to day activities of Business Analyst

Business Analyst FAQs

Pallavi

Business Analyst , Functional Consultant, Provide Training on Business Analysis and SDLC Methodologies.

www.bacareers.in