Top 5 characteristics that define best business analysts!

The responsibilities and roles of a Business Analyst are more or less equivalent to project managers. In order to evolve successfully in the career as Business Analysts, they needs to manage the entire business analysis effort. They often have to be proactive and dependency-aware. Business Analysts are also required to be capable of managing themselves well, the stay on track with respect to commitments and deadlines, and can handle task delegation, decision-making, and issue management as needed on the project.

Here in this blog, let us examine some of the characteristics that every good business analysts supposed to have. BAs with these qualities are often appreciated by stakeholders, coveted by recruiters and hiring managers, and have a wide variety of career options open to them

Knowledge about the Foundation of Business

Business Analysts tends to undergo important business analyst skills. They need to be excellent communicators, problem-solvers and think critically. They can create requirements specifications, analyze requirements, create visual models, facilitate elicitation sessions, and use the necessary business analyst tools. This is the foundation…But then you must do a little more.

Adequate Technical Expertise

Business analysts will be subjected to optimize a diverse range of technical elements. Not that he/she has to be tech lead or possess developer knowledge, though that is a plus, but rather a very good technical acumen that gels with the project management-type organizational skills and knowledge they also likely possess. Can project manage it when needed? The indispensable business analyst can and often acts in the role of project manager, both when the project manager may be tied up on another project and also when interfacing with the team and client and a decision needs to be made if the project manager isn't currently available.

Being Resourceful

Being a core influencing factor of a business, Business analysts know how to find the answers to questions and don’t wait for the answers to come to them. They find alternative paths through the organization and involve the right people at the right time. Good business analysts rarely get stopped for long and can often work through challenging situations to come through to a solution.

Critical Thinker and Facilitator

Business analysts are liable and accountable for evaluating multiple opportunities and options before helping a team settle on a solution. While discovering the problem to be solved, business analysts must listen to stakeholder needs but also critically consider those needs and ask probing questions until the real need is surfaced and understood. This is what makes critical thinking and evaluation skills important for the business analyst on the project. The business analyst is going to be required to facilitate many meetings and sessions during the project such as periodically leading the team meetings and formal project status meetings for the project manager and then requirements meetings with the customer as well as design sessions with the technical project team.