Business Analyst Value Added

How a Business Analyst Increases the Potential Benefits

The business analyst can also help the project team increase the potential benefits yielded by the solution. Some key areas come to mind.

• New business needs or requirements are discovered — A business analyst does not just pick up or “gather” the requirements. Most often a business analyst must actively mine for or discover the requirements. By actively discovering requirements, the business analyst helps the business come to an improved understanding of what is needed from the solution to be successful
• Prioritization ensures focus on value — Our stakeholders are reluctant to prioritize. By using various prioritization techniques and prioritizing at several stages in the requirements lifecycle we help ensure our own and our stakeholder efforts are invested in the requirements with the most potential benefit.
• More effective implementation of new solutions by the business — Even without formal change management practices, focusing on the business analyst principles of clarity and alignment help the organization prepare for change.
• Providing a framework in which an IT team can scale — as an organization grows, so does the number of stakeholders, projects and implementer. As this happens, the natural patterns of communication that worked for a smaller team tend to fall apart. Business analysis is a key component in enabling a small team to scale to a larger one, thereby increasing the benefits realized because more projects can be successful investments.

[source: https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/]