IT Business analyst-2

The IT Business Analyst (IT BA) plays a crucial role in facilitating collaboration between the business and the agile change organization. The IT BA identifies and gathers both functional and non-functional business, architecture and IT requirements and translates them in feature designs describing the to-be realized features in close co-operation with the stakeholders. Additionally, the IT BA supports decision-making on various management levels by presenting alternatives and substantiating them in a functional roadmap to clarify mutual dependencies.

Role impact of the IT BA:

• The primary objective is to translate the (business, architecture and IT) requirements into comprehensive functional feature designs as input for the IT-delivery organization. Requirements are elicited and modelled by making use of standard modelling techniques.
• Defines together with primary stakeholders the functional interdependencies between features of an epic, resulting in a functional dependency roadmap.
• Serves and verifies the IT-delivery during feature refinement, build, test and deployment.

The IT BA works together with:

• Business representatives: tribe leadership, product (area) leadership, Customer Journey Experts.
• The IT Delivery organization: IT (area) leadership, Chapter leads, DevOps engineers, IT-Integrators.
• Enterprise, Domain, Solution Architects.