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Students will work on individual Research Project to deliver a research paper on any of the following project topics.The research paper should be APA Style, 3 – 4 pages in length and include at least 3 bibliographic references out of which at least one paper/article from ProQuest Library only. The paper must include an Abstract along with Table of contents & references at the end of the paper. Please make sure that you run your research paper through Turnitin tool and submit the similarity report along with your research paper. Make sure similarity percentage is not more than 30.Turnitin . Following is the research topics for the paper:
+ Business Analyst Role in Software Development.
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Business Analysis is the framework which helps in knowing and understanding the changing business needs. It also helps in assessing the impact of those changes on the business, by capturing, analysing and documenting requirements and supporting the communication and delivery of requirements with relevant stakeholders. A business analyst is a person who analyzes an organization or a business and documents the way it works, its businesses, and certain processes or the systems, and helps in assessing the business model or its integration with technology.
There is a lot of prominance for a business analyst (IT) in a software industry. Business analyst helps in shaping the project from its very inception by facilitating an effective communication between the development teams, top management and supervisors / executives. This effective communication helps in managing the teams in a right way. It allows customers to save the resources of the management, and at the same time, helping teams in ensuring that they deliver within the stipulated time and within allocated budget.
In order to explain with an example, we could say, being a business analyst is just like being an architect but instead of building a house, analysts develop a new system or update an existing system (eg, computer system). A business analyst takes responsibility for talking to the business users of the computer system to understand their needs. Instead of producing plans, the business analyst produces ‘requirements’ which clearly state the business needs and align with business processes. The requirements are then used by the IT team or an external supplier to build or modify the system. While the system is being built the business analyst is on hand to deal with issues and questions, and to support the business in implementing the required changes to make effective use of the new system.
The role of a IT business analyst is often seen as a communication bridge between Information Technology and the stakeholders of the business. Business analysts must be extremely versatile in verbal and written communication, they should be tactful and diplomatic as well, they need to have an excellent problem solving skills, and should be effective thinkers and analysers, such that should be able to engage the stakeholders and helping them to understand and respond to their needs of the customers in a rapidly changing business environments. This can often involve dealing with very senior stakeholders, or can even involve challenging and questioning to ensure that value for money is achieved from IT developments.
