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Why and how would someone want to pursue a career as a business analyst? -…
Why and how would someone want to pursue a career as a business analyst?
What is a main role of a business analyst?
bridging the gap between IT and the business
understands the business goals, objectives, and ongoing problems
finds solution that is best suited for the client's projects
What are some skills used by BA?
Critical Thinking
Technical
Learning variety of technologies
Problem-Solving
Methodology
Communication
Industrial and domain expertise
What qualifications do you need to become a BA?
CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional)
International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
Degree and domain knowledge
SQL
Programming languages
Data visualization tools
Finance, economics, IT, etc
Step by step to pursue a BA career path
Become a subject matter expert
Improve your skill set by pursuing BA-related certifications
Gain an entry-level job as a developer, industry expert, etc
Move up to senior position
Earn a degree (finance, IT, accounting, etc)
Aim for Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
How does BA bring values to a company?
Increasing company ROI
provides necessary changes to your business model
Reduce project costs
build system up to the business stakeholders' expectations
How do business analysts solve problems
Gather data
Analyze Data
Identify problems
Identify solutions
Define solution
Plan Implementation
Test solution
Improve solution
What is the most difficult part of being BA?
Being a technical guru in
SQL
R
Python
Excel
Finding out yourself
learn and gain as much as you can in "business domains"
know the best domain for yourself
What are differences between good and bad BAs?
Good BAs
listen to client's requirements
gather data and document the project themselves
use their expertise to learn clients' expertise
Bad BAs
provide excessive documents
forget that their clients have own rights
Ruin project
frustrated when clients don't understand methodology
ask you to fill out templates