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INTERVIEW QUESTION:

What is the role of the Business Analyst (BA), at each point in a typical project or programme of work?

Posted by Guy Beauchamp

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Categories: Roles and Responsibilities, Project Management

ANSWER

To consider the scope of the business analyst role it is helpful to consider the chain of reasoning that leads from the statement of a problem to implementation of solutions.

This chain involves 10 groups of users:

Owners

Strategists

Sponsors

Programme Managers

Project Stakeholders

Design Analysts

Solution Builders

Solution Builders & Business

Project Managers

Users

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ADDITIONAL ANSWERS / COMMENTS

RSM posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 3:27 PM

Fantastic pictorial representation which shows the end to end responsibility of BA

kamBA posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:09 PM

What does TOR stands for? Is it Task Order Request?

modiva posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:40 PM

Terms of reference (TOR) or business charter describe the purpose and structure of a project.

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