Specialists in the business sector have come up with some excellent software that are meant to aid any business in analyzing its data and producing the necessary output. This lecture will introduce you to the Fourth and final stage of the Project Management process. You won’t necessarily need programming or database skills for a business analyst position, but if you already have these skills, they won’t hurt. Depending on the organizational structure , business analysts may be aligned to a specific development lab or they might be grouped together in a resource pool and allocated to various projects based on availability and expertise.

When the time inevitably comes for some sort of change, the business analyst has several techniques at his disposal. Analysts are not and ought never see themselves as business experts. IT departments, aware of the problem, often create a business analyst role to better understand and define the requirements for their IT systems.

The complexity of working with a number of different component members to achieve a project may require quick and accurate decision making skills, especially when the entire team may not be required to make important decisions all the time. As a business analyst one of your jobs is to make sure that the doomed projects never get started, as well as seeing to it that the projects with high potential are advanced.

In my opinion getting our hands dirty on these deliverables is very good as you would no longer be restricting yourself to the role of a business analyst but scaling up to be a management consultant. Businesses of the digital era, be it software or other industries, have begun to understand the importance of leveraging data available to them not just for insights, but also for deriving decisions.

The effectiveness of the process is always in question depending on the complexity of the business requirement but with time and effort we could evolve to be better in the offshore business analyst role. During this period, the role of the “Business Analyst” emerged requiring a deeper understanding of the business and the development of relationships with stakeholders at all levels.