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INTERVIEW QUESTION:

Who uses the output produced by a business analyst?

Posted by Chris Adams

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Output produced by a business analyst is used throughout the enterprise for a myriad of purposes and by a variety of stakeholders such as:

Business Management and Executives: The business analyst may create a model of current business processes to identify areas where Business Process Improvement or Business Process Re-Engineering might make sense.

Business Workers: The business analyst may create a model of current business processes to convey to business workers how their role fits into the larger business process and the other groups that are dependent upon them for information.

System Users of a New System: The business analyst may gather requirements and define use cases that describe the functionality of a new system that the system users must read, understand, and approve.

Systems Analyst: The business analyst may gather requirements, define use cases, create process flows, etc., to document system requirements from which systems analysts can write functional specifications.

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Curtis Gross posted on Monday, March 2, 2009 7:17 PM

Other consumers of business analyst outputs include:
- project manager
- information architect
- system architect
- DBA
- developers
- Quality Control/software testers

DLT posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 4:39 PM

Don't forget trainers and HR

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