* What is Business Analysis? * Who is a Business Analyst? * The reasons to become a Business Analyst * The principles of Business Analysis * Business Analyst’s role * S.W.O.T and M.O.S.T Analysis * Requirements of being Business Analyst * Business Analysts’ work * Business Analysts’ workplaces * Difference between Data Scientist and a Business Analyst * Analysis work

1. Abbasqulu Allahverdili

2. What is Business Analysis?
• Business analysis is a research discipline of
identifying business needs and determining solutions
to business problems.

3. Who is a Business Analyst?
• A business analyst (BA) is a person who analyzes an
organization or business domain (real or
hypothetical) and documents, its business,
processes or systems, assessing the business
model and its integration with technology.

4. The reasons to become a Business Analyst
1. Create Change and Influence.
2. Meeting new people on a daily basis.
3. Being the driving brain.
4. Always be factual, learn, adjust and improve.
5. Challenge.

5. The principles of Business Analysis.
1. Get Oriented.
2. Discover the Primary Business Objectives.
3. Define Scope.
4. Formulate Your Business Analysis Plan.
5. Define the Detailed Requirements.
6. Support the Technical Implementation.
7. Help the Business Implement the Solution.
8. Assess Value Created by the Solution.

6. Business
Analyst’s role
• Developing technical solutions
to business problems, or to
advance a company's sales
efforts, begins with defining,
analyzing and documenting
requirements. Managing
requirements at the project
level can help fulfil business
needs.

7. Most Popular Business
Analysis Techniques
1. SWOT Analysis
* S- Strength
* W- Weakness
* O- Opportunities
* T- Threats
It is a thorough analysis
conducted by a business
analysis considering
A SWOT analysis is a four-
quadrant analysis for a
business analyst where
he/she places the data as
the answers for each
quadrant. A business
analyst answers the
questions under each of
the quadrants.

8. Most Popular Business
Analysis Techniques
2. MOST Analysis
* M-Mission
* O-Objective
* S-Strategy
* T-Tactics
MOST analysis is a powerful
business analysis framework
and among the best
business analysis
techniques using which the
business analysts analyze
what an organization does
and plans to achieve the
goal and what it should do to
maintain strategic alignment.
Hence, the MOST analysis
is a clear way to understand
an organization on its ability
and purpose.

9. Requirements of being Business Analyst
Becoming a successful business analyst requires core business skills
and specialized knowledge that will advance a firm’s objectives, and
contribute to its remaining competitiveness in a complex economy.
These core skills include:
• Written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills.
• Understanding of systems engineering concepts.
• The ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis.
• Business case development.
• Modelling techniques and methods.
• Leadership.

10. Business Analysts’ work
The analyst is involved in the design or modification of
business systems or IT systems. The analyst interacts with
the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in
order to understand their problems and needs. The analyst
gathers documents and analyzes business needs and
requirements.

11. Business Analysts’ workplaces
The business analysis uses a disciplined approach for
introducing and managing change to organizations,
whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or
non-profits. Business analysts can work in a variety of
industries, such as banking, finance, insurance and
software services.

12. Difference between Data Scientist and a
Business Analyst
Business Analyst:
A business analyst is a person
who analyzes an organization
or business domain (real or
hypothetical) and documents
its business or processes or
systems, assessing the
business model or its
integration with technology.
Data Scientist:
Data scientists are involved
with gathering data,
massaging it into a tractable
form, making it tell its story,
and presenting that story to
others.

13. Analysis work:
1. Interface Design Process:
User interface (UI) design is the
process of making interfaces in
software or computerized devices with
a focus on looks or style. Designers
aim to create designs which users will
find easy to use and pleasurable.

14. Analysis work:
2. Data Dictionary Process:
A data dictionary is a
collection of descriptions
of the data objects or
items in a data model for
the benefit of
programmers and others
who need to refer to them.
The first step in analyzing
a system of objects with
which users interact is to
identify each object and its
relationship to other
objects.

15. Analysis work:
3. Software Development Process:
In software engineering, a software development
process is a process of dividing software
development work into distinct phases to improve a
design, product management, and project
management.

16. Analysis work:
4. Functional Tests Process:
Functional testing is a
quality assurance (QA)
process and a type of black-
box testing that bases its
test cases on the
specifications of the
software component under
test.

17. Analysis work :
5. User Acceptance Tests Process:
User acceptance testing (UAT) is often considered the last
phase in the web development process, the one before
final installation of the software on the client site, or final
distribution of it.

18. Analysis
work start
and end:
6. Compliance With Deadline Process
The latest time or date by which
something should be completed.