Skills that every Business Analyst must have

To become a successful Business Analyst, you need to develop some important skills.

Only knowing BA responsibilities isn’t enough, you will also need to learn the skills that every business analyst must-have. In this blog, we will tell you about the most important ones, which actually are the skills that most companies are expecting BA’s to have when they hire them.

1. Communication skills:

As a business analyst, you are a good communicator, regardless of the method of communication, communication skills should be good because the way you gather the requirement and express your opinion is your biggest strength as a business analyst. You must be able to make your point unambiguously and clearly. It is also most important that you know how to ask insightful questions to retrieve the information that you need from stakeholders. In order to improve this skill, you’ll need to work on oral and written communication separately.

Oral communication

• Try to be as clear as possible. This means that sometimes you might have to repeat things, but when you do, try to express yourself differently each time.
• Speak slowly and pay focus on your listener’s body language. That will give you the chance to realize if they are actually following your explanation or not.
• Precision when it comes to expressing ideas. In the traditional or the agile software development life cycle, the business analyst role is not limited to talking with stakeholders. It is their responsibility to give support to programmers, testers, UI and UX areas and any other role that may need to understand what the stakeholder needs are.

Written communication

• Read more that will help you to improve your writing. Seeing how other people make the same documents (only for the reference) you need to create can be a great help. Don’t forget that both the font style and font size of your writing have an important impact on their own. Mind your punctuation and never consider a document as completed before having given it a final check. After the final check send it to the other end (stakeholder) for conformation.
• The following points should be considered while making the document :
  • The clarity to get your ideas.
  • Precision to avoid ambiguities.
  • No Grammatical Mistakes.
  • Punctuation used to properly

2. Understanding of the Tools:

Every project is different, even though most of the time you will use diagrams, the type may vary depending on the project. What is certain is that you will be required to be as clear as possible, and the use cases, user stories, UML notation, and mock-ups are going to be your allies in reaching this clarity.

So, every Business Analyst should be good at using network diagrams tools, workflow diagrams tools, business process management tools, etc. This is because we are still dealing with a requirement and should be able to slice and dice the requirement using these tools for documentation. It’s not so important to learn coding and programming through a basic understanding might be of advantage like SQL, Python, etc.

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