Business Analysts & Agile Frameworks

There have been many assumptions and misinterpretations about the role of the business analyst in agile project management. But what is the add-in value that a business analyst brings to agile project management i.e. will BA’s role bridge in to provide add-in value in an agile environment?

Today we explore the role of a business analyst to see how they can bring in value to agile management teams.

Business Analysts Identify and Solve Problems Within Organizations

Nowadays, IT firms are trying to put business analysts closer to the management and client services teams. Such employees tend to work with leadership to find out problems and probable solutions to it. Mainly, three points are being addressed while finding solutions:

1. Real needs or problem of a business
2. Means to solve needs or problems
3. Best fits to firm’s existing framework or goals

A business analyst needs to consider each of the above-mentioned points. Otherwise the development team will deliver something that will not solve the right problem or will solve them inappropriately.

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