Becoming A Senior Business Analyst (Attributes Of A Sr. BA)

Whether a BA is senior or not has less to do with the number of years that they have been practicing business analysis, and more with the characteristics that they possess. In this video, we discuss some of these attributes.
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Episode Transcript
What makes somebody a senior business analyst and when I say senior I don't necessarily mean the title of senior business analyst that your employer might have given you a lot of players out there will often times still base the title of senior just strictly based on a number of years that a person has been there or that the number of years that they've been performing the task that they've been performing I'm going to encourage you to set your own standards for what it means to be a senior analyst and that standard shouldn't be based on the number of years you've been doing it but rather it should really be based on the characteristics that senior analysts demonstrate and those are the characteristics that I want to talk about and I want you to start to measure yourself against characteristics versus the number of different years because what that does is it incentivizes you to start to learn the things that you need to actually be able to perform at a senior level overall for your own career that will they'll do you much better in the long run because if you have that incentive to pick up the actual skills you are a person who is going to be highly sought after by a lot of different employers.
So just basing it strictly on the number of years is it's not a good way of looking at whether you're a senior person or not. So let's talk about the characteristics.
The single biggest the single most important characteristic that a senior business analyst demonstrates is the ability to foresee problems before they occur. OK, so I'll repeat that again. It's the ability to see problems that are going to be coming down the line before they've even reared their head and that ability is something that gets developed over time it's something that you learn through the experience of having gone through multiple different projects at your company and having seen certain types of issues that pop up given certain conditions that exist right.
And so one of the major tasks that a B.A. has to perform when they're doing the analysis work on a project is the ability to detect and to raise risks to the project manager or the oversight committee of the project. Now the B.A. isn't necessarily responsible for maintaining that risk register but the.
But for your portion of the analysis work on a project, it is your duty to make sure that any risk that you see coming down the line in the project that's required that's related to the requirements portion of the work. It's your duty to make sure that those risks are raised to the project manager that you provide some mitigation plan and you provide some sort of a contingency plan to help them manage the project manager manage that risk right. So again the single biggest the single most important characteristic of somebody who has to qualify themselves as a senior. Who can qualify themselves as a senior? The single biggest characteristic they have to have is the ability to predict the issues that are going to pop up before anybody else even knows that they are coming down the pipe.
The second skillset that you really have to have. If you want to be considered senior or if you want to consider yourself Senior. Is the ability to plan out the analysis portion of a large project.
So typically when the project manager is doing their project plan let's say you're past the funding stage and the projects got funding approval the project manager typically what they have to do is they have to go through a long-drawn-out process of planning out the entire project. And as part of that what they do is they'll go to the senior analyst on the project and they'll ask the analyst for their work breakdown structure of the analysis portion of the project. It's. In order for you to be able to develop that work plan.
You have to have a lot of experience in knowing how to slice up for lack of a better word on how to slice up the scope of the functional scope of the project that you're delivering. You have to know how to divide that up into pieces that are going to be delivered one piece at a time.
And so a lot of the knowledge that you have to have is related to it's basically a combination of understanding how software is built. Understanding the functional constraints. So what has to be answered before the next thing can be answered and taking all of those dependencies into consideration when you're developing the work plan because one of the issues that you'll run into when you're developing work plans if...
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Good evening, can you please give m an example of that in you work place, like an example of when you foresee a problem before they happened

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Can you elaborate on an Executive Business Analyst? I believe it has to do with the scale you’re operating; where the same activities are done but at an enterprise level. Rarely seen. Can you make a video on it?

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