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Chapter 9
Want to Become a
Business Analyst without IT
Background?

Introduction
Many successful business analysts today have started their career with a different
job role. SO, here is the answer to all those who ask a question quite frequently
‘can I become a business analyst without having prior experience or IT
background?’

objective
 Introduction
 Diagram
 Brief Description
 Understand the job role
 Interact With Experts
 Optimize your current job role
 Project Documents
 Diagram 2.0
 Training and Certifications
 Relevant Experience
 Conclusion

Diagram
Knowledge about BA
Relevant Training
Good NetworkParticipate in BA task
Focus on all efforts

Brief Description
• Business Analyst roles may sound different to you, but it should be emphasized.
• Business analysis has no defined boundaries rather it is diversified.
• You must have strong communication skills and emotional intelligence to perform this role creatively.
• A business analyst is responsible for collecting user requirements and implementing technical solutions to cater to those
needs.
• Therefore, we can say that a BA works as a connector between a business team and an IT team.
• Due to this reason, people think that starting a career as a business analyst need good IT knowledge. Relax, this is not true!
Bullet Points about Business Analyst

• Improving the overall business model by changing the ongoing strategies for the betterment
• Implementing new technologies and ideas to take the business to the next level,
• Calculating all the measures that can boost revenue are the key responsibilities of a business analyst.
• We all handle the role of BA in some aspects as we are contributing to organizational growth.
Understand the job role
Understand the job role of a business analyst
Need Identification
Elicitation & Collaboration
Requirements Communication
Requirements Modeling
Requirements Management
Business Analyst

Interact With Experts
• Heard business analysis expert’s success stories and implemented their ideas to build a strong career.
• When you communicate to a professional of any domain, they share domain-specific information that helps you a lot in going forward.
• Ask them about the challenges they faced as a business analyst and what strategies applied to address those issues.
• Another important point that you must ask a BA is about all the references or sources from where they learn something to improve skills
and perform better.
• You can join various forums, communities or groups wherein business analysts discuss their experiences, job opportunities, tips & tricks,
and learning resources.
• You must have the ability to represent your current job as the basic level role of a business analyst to make your entry easy in the business
analytics world.
Interact with business analysts and learn

JOB Role
Think of how you can optimize your
current job role
• If you keep an attitude of improving the process of your daily activities, you are already on the track of becoming a good business analyst.
• Going office, doing the same job in the same style every day will neither add benefit to your growth nor organization growth.
• No matter whether you are at home or office, try to figure out the ways that can improve the results of your job role.
• You can create an excel sheet for yourself or involve other people to check whether or not you are improving the existing process.
• Once you start working on so many projects, you get an idea of all the possible aspects of a BA to handle a case, and it helps you to grow faster.

Project Documents
Go through some Project Documents
• A business analyst listens to people carefully, convert their words into business requirements, and send it to a team.
• This is a very critical job, and a minor difference in understanding can create a big problem.
• To start a career as a BA, you should first go through some project document write ups
• In the business requirement doc, you will find information related to user requirements, project scope and the
method of the overall process.
• In the technical requirement document, you will learn about technical things like how user requirements can be
implemented.

Diagram 2.0

Training and Certifications
Get some training and certifications
• To start a career in business analysis, BA training can help you build a foundation.
• Before choosing any business analyst course, make sure you have done a depth analysis, and the
institute you have chosen holds a good reputation and can help you get a valuable certification.
• When you take training from a reputable online platform’s, you learn good things and apply your
learning to get a job as a business analyst.
• Also, the chance of employability remains high while you have the right skill set and valuable
knowledge.
• While joining a training course, prefer those institutes that can provide you some experience or
certification so that you can use it as proof of knowledge regarding BA.

Relevant Experience
• Sometimes we do a lot but unable to present and it is easy too. But, showing whatever you have done in a ‘bigger form’
is challenging.
• If you want to get success in your career, you must know how to play around it.
• You need to explain the connection and importance of your experience with a BA job
• You need to think carefully about your experience and prepare a note of how it is relatable to a business analyst role.
Show your experience relevant for the job role

Conclusion
• If you have no prior experience in the business analyst field, focus on your current role and try to filter out relevant
responsibilities from it.
• You can develop an experience for a BA role gradually.
• With your little steps, enter the world of business analytics, work on different projects, gain more knowledge and gain
experience in various areas.
• Once you have enough experience, you can easily move to a stable BA position.
I am sure these tips will help you to
be a Business Analyst Irrespective of
your prior Experience.

Thank You

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