Chapter 1
Business Analysis in a Nutshell
In This Chapter
Grasping what business analysis is and why it’s valuable
Tracking a business analyst’s role and skills
Introducing industry guidelines and certification options
In today’s competitive world, companies must always be at their best, maintain an edge, and capitalize on opportunities for growth. Business analysis is a deliberate attempt to review operations to ensure that business is moving along as well as it can and that the company is taking advantage of opportunities.
Basically, business analysis is a set of tasks and activities that help companies determine their objectives for meeting certain opportunities or addressing challenges and then help them define solutions to meet those objectives. Sometimes, companies hire outside, independent business analysts (BAs) to come in and perform the analysis. Other times, they may call upon an employee to perform BA tasks internally regardless of whether he has a business analyst title. No matter which category you fit into, this book lays it all out for you.
In this chapter, we give you a very broad overview of what business analysis is, introduce you to the business analysis lifecycle, ...
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