From Business Process Modeling to Entreprise Architecture and System Analysis, the business analysis is the corner stone of a successful project.
However, the lack of information on the topic and the relatively mistery around the function makes the selection of a business analyst difficult.
Therefore, what can ease the selection of a business analyst that suits to your organisation?
Three main axis needs to be considered:
– Understanding and integration of the business analysis governance including:
- a deep understanding of the type of analyis that he may have to do such as:
- Feasibility studies
- Business cases
- Business Process Diagram
- Business Requirement Document
- Functional Specification Document
- System Requirements specification
- A clear understanding of what makes a requirement a good requirement (Remember SMART)
– Understanding of your business and preferably with an experience in several companies. Indeed you are not looking for someone that will provide you solution copied from your competitor but someone able to draw innovative solution adapted to your environment and strategy
– Softskills and values of the person. It includes amongst others
- his capacity to structure a problem and to write it down on paper
- his capacity to listen and react quickly to inconsistencies described by his counterparties
- empathy
- capacity to think out of the box
This element will have to be matched against financial budget and availabilities of people on the market. But if it true to say that you have normally a good view on your budget, it is often difficult to assess the price of a good candidate and to make the difference between a commercial pitch and a real in -depth knowledge of the discipline. That’s why you can refer to company specialized in business analysis such as AxOne.