Lead I

Role Proficiency:
Analyse the business needs of a client in order to recommend and evaluate solutions to those needs with support from lead BA. Perform Business Analysis tasks with mínimal support from the lead BA.

Outcomes:

- Work with right stakeholders to understand and define their needs and objectives in a way that can be understood resolved and actionable
- Consistently plan a business analysis approach for complex situations
- Design define and test project/product requirements
- Play multiple roles within activities prescribed by a methodology
- Proactively develop a meeting frequency to assess progress (e.g. weekly biweekly)
- Engage all stakeholders and gain consensus in agreement of results
- Create the software requirements artefacts and deliverables
- Communicate complex information in an easy-to-understand manner
- Consistently develop effective change control processes for complex requirements and designs.
- Determine the appropriate level of abstraction for business analysis information in complex environments
- align complex requirements with design with some support from Lead BA if available
- Understand BA knowledge areas appropriately to be able to use to solve a business problem
- Analyse business needs and solutions Facilitate stakeholder collaboration effectively and efficiently along with some guidance from Lead BA
- Validate and verify information to identify solution options that meet business needs
- identify and leverage the appropriate business analysis tools based on the requirements and purpose of the task
- Establish and implement effective requirement creation and management practices with required guidance from the Lead BA/Project Manager
- Define software quality attributes external interfaces constraints and other non-functional requirements with required support from the lead BA
- Perform complex impact assessments of changes to requirements and designs
- Ensure that project team fully understand the project requirements specifications and that testing results correspond to the business expectations/needs

Measures of Outcomes:

- Business value addition
- Communication effectiveness
- Customer feedback
- Business Analysis processes and tools
- Reusable artefacts/methodologies for use across organization
- Trainings undertaken/given including certifications

Outputs Expected:
Business Value:

- Active identification of business problems
constraints
dependencies that leads to right solution pick

Stakeholder Engagement:

- Lead written and verbal communication in and out of the client
specific to the engagement
- Negotiation of various options Vs value delivered with stakeholders

Requirements Engineering:

- Use of right set of tools
templates
and/or processes for aligning requirements and design.
- Good expertise in using several business analysis tools to elicit
document and manage requirements

Solution Evaluation:

- Evaluate and recommend appropriate solution options to business problem with a combination of metrics plus and strategic analysis

Process:

- Drive processes established by the Lead BA/Project stakeholders as required by the engagement and ensure adherence by the team

BA artefacts maintenance:

- Documentation of the process plus project artefacts owned by the Business Analyst
- Management and communication about project artefacts to the various stakeholder groups
- Develop and proactively drive adoption of tools
templates
and processes to help others produce effective decision making and approval processes

Team Management:

- Mentor Junior Bas in the organization/Portfolio on a need basis

New Business:

- Assist the organization/Unit with identification of new business opportunities and solution recommendation on a need basis (when requested by manager/leadership)

Skill Examples:

- Behavioural Characteristics - Use of right behavioural characteristics like Ethics Personal Accountability Organization Time Management and adapt to gain the trust and respect of stakeholders. Continuously and consistently exhibit practice and preach competencies like Ethics Personal Accountability Trustworthiness Organization and Time Management and Adaptability.
- Business Knowledge -Perform effectively within the Business Industry and Organization solution or methodology that the business analyst operates in. Demonstrate a good ability to recognize potential limitations and opportunities. Understand the risks involved in the area of work and make suitable decisions to manage risks. Demonstrate very good understanding of Current trends market forces market drivers Key processes Services Products definitions customer segments suppliers practices and regulations
- Communication Skills - adaption of communication styles and techniques to the knowledge level and communication styles of recipients. Well versed ability to speak the language of the stakeholders Proficiency in the use of variety of communication methods - verbal non-verbal physical and written along with e