1.5 The role and responsibilities of a business analyst

• Definition of the business analyst role

A BA's is a practitioner of business analysis (even if he/she is not identified as a BA). His/Her responsibility are:

• eliciting business requirements and study related capabilities.
• maintaining business goals alignment of the project and facilitating communication between the business and others stakeholders (IT, executives, suppliers, customers).

Sometimes, he or she will also be involved in:

• Defining strategy implementation.
• Producing business case.
• Confirming benefits realisation.
• Specifying IT requirements.

• The guiding principles for business analysis

The rationale for business analysis if to focus on:

• Root causes not symptoms.
• Business improvement not IT change.
• Options not solutions.
• Select/Prioritise requirements feasible in terms of constraints/business needs.
• Take in account the global business change lifecycle.
• Negotiate stakeholders conflicts.
• Business agility not business perfection.

• The business analysis maturity model

The  Business Analysis Maturity Model or BAMM represents the development and maturity of business analysis. It shows 2 axes that represent the scope of work allocated to the business analysis and the authority level of business analyst.

For some senior business analyst, strategic activities are performed as:

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