Are you passionate about IT and Business? Or you want to train towards a career as a Business Analyst. Are you analytical & interested in Business? Or you want train towards a career in Business Analysis. Look no further; at ACHIEVERS NETWORKS UK, we have got you covered. Plan and start your journey with us today.
Business Analyst is a good career because it offers strong salaries, plentiful job opportunities, and BAs generally report high job satisfaction and work-life balance. Another perk of a career in business analysis: the possibilities are endless. To progress to the Business Analyst role, we have put together a list of 7 attributes which make a good Business Analyst a great Business Analyst:
1. They cover the basics
Have the most important business analyst skills covered. Great BA’s are good communicators, problem-solvers, and think critically. They can create requirements specifications, analyse requirements, create visual models, facilitate elicitation sessions, and use the necessary business analyst tools.
2. They are resourceful
Business analysts know how to find the answers to questions and don’t wait for the answers to come to them. They find alternative paths through the organization and involve the right people at the right time. Great business analysts rarely get stopped for long and can often work through challenging situations to come through to a solution.
3. They grow their toolbox of skills
Great business analysts are not content to do the same things the same way every time. Gaining confidence to apply wide variety of business analysis techniques increases marketability and can make you more efficient.
Great BA’s select the right tool for the job instead of relying on their go-to tools and making it works for every situation.
Great BA’s select the right tool for the job instead of relying on their go-to tools and making it works for every situation.
4. They create alignment and ownership around the solution
It’s really easy to be the one who writes down what the stakeholders ask for. As a new BA, you might be in a role where you are expected to do this or where it’s the biggest contribution you can make at first.
But great business analysts do more and this means that you are in the middle of resolving conflicts and ensuring that when the solution is delivered, the business truly owns that this is what they wanted and is prepared to use it.
But great business analysts do more and this means that you are in the middle of resolving conflicts and ensuring that when the solution is delivered, the business truly owns that this is what they wanted and is prepared to use it.
5. They create clarity
Business analysts bring a unique blend of critically important soft skills and analysis skills. Together these two skill sets help the business analyst create clarity and clarity does not simply mean that you get sign-off on the spec.
A great business analyst doesn’t rely on sign-offs and hundred-page documents. They use analysis techniques to drill into details and ask relevant questions. They get buy-in, not just sign-off, during the verification and validation process and they get into the appropriate details to ensure true clarity emerges.
A great business analyst doesn’t rely on sign-offs and hundred-page documents. They use analysis techniques to drill into details and ask relevant questions. They get buy-in, not just sign-off, during the verification and validation process and they get into the appropriate details to ensure true clarity emerges.
6. They don’t rely on cookies
Yes, developers and stakeholders like cookies. Who doesn’t? It’s nice to feel appreciated for all of your hard work. But good business analysts don’t rely on bribes to build and sustain positive relationships.
- They use active listening techniques to ensure stakeholders feel heard.
- They set clear expectations as a way to build trust, consistently follow through on their commitments, and don’t make promises they can’t keep.
- They honour confidentiality agreements, never talk behind anyone’s back, and are generally seen as above office gossip.
Great business analysts are both professional and good to work with.
7. They have a strong dash of Project Management
Great BA’s are not only not project managers but they understand with perfect clarity why they are not project managers.
That being said, great business analysts know how to manage within business analysis.
- They are proactive and dependency aware.
- They manage themselves to commitments and deadlines.
- They get stakeholders involved at the right times and in the right ways and keep everything moving.
More than all of this, great business analysts have a strong eye for scope. While it can be fun to figure out what we might pack if everything, but the kitchen sink fits into the car, great business analysts realize that implementation constraints nearly always get in the way of achieving the full vision the first time out, so they keep a close eye on value and feasibility and guide their stakeholders toward a set of requirements that can actually get implemented.
These and much more are what you will learn and gain if you become part of us today. At Achievers Network UK, we are indeed great Achievers.