Chaitanya Muralidhar Deshpande

How is the typical day of a Business Analyst ?

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RE: How is the typical day of a Business Analyst ?

Deepak Rana
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The typical day of a Business Analyst is really exciting and often involves variety of activities. Below are details in step by step manner:

1. The day starts with the discussions with the team members and clients. In certain cases, first the team meeting is held before having a conversation with the clients. In this meeting, the focus remains on how to proceed, where they are at the moment and the deadlines are set for the next tasks. Generally these deadlines are set by the managers. Accordingly the tasks are assigned to different professionals.

2. The day is followed by doing the analysis work and it consumes a lot of time for any Business Analyst. They have to work on the tools and technologies and come up with the right analysis so keeping right parameters and ignoring the factors that do not matter. A lot of thought process goes behind this to come up with an answer.



3. In between they have to coordinate with the team members regularly. The feedback of the senior leadership is required for every analysis and the conclusions. If required a team meeting is set up again just to ensure that the things are at right place.

4. In between Business Analysts find time to have fun. They go out for coffee or something else and refresh themselves. The relaxed state of mind is very much required for such analytical job.

5. Every day they have to submit their findings to the clients and other leaders to keep track of the activities that are in line. It is a team effort and working with a team is absolutely necessary.

RE: How is the typical day of a Business Analyst ?

Rahul Shinde
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Hi,


Greeting's for the day!!!

In Today's fast-paced market scenario, the role of Business Analyst (BA) lends great value to an organization.- a BA is a genralist capable of fucntioning competently in a diverse roles.

Outsourcing has become a mainstray in our global economy. Large corporations reduce their operation cost by seeking out the same work quality at lower costs. By outsourcing, a distance between business stakeholder and the programmer is created, creating the need for higher quality and more precise analysis, including creation of documents and fucntional specifiactions, has risen. With this equipment, an increasing demand for business analysts can be witnessed in our information economy.

Added to this, in a competitive economic landscape, business bodies strive to improve their business processes and reduce costs - Business Analysts are at the center of most of these initiatives.


Required Skills or Personal Qualities:
Business Analysts needs to have:
1. Communicating Details and Concepts
2. Technical Skills
3. Conceptual Modelling Skills
4. Curiosity
5. Decomposing the Abstract into Details
6. Mentoring and Coaching
7. Communicating Risks
8. Leveraging "Parking Lot"
9. Change Management
10. Asking WHY?
11. Impromptu Whiteboard Drawing
12. Analytical Skills
13. Problem Solving Skills
14. Decision-Making Skills
15. Negotiation and Persuasion Skills
16. Managerial Skills.


Roles and Responsibilities:
Business Analysy performs folloeing work in their days to day activities:
1. helping Businesses implemtn technology solutions in a cost-effective way by determining the requirements of a project or a program
2. Communicating the requirements cleary to stakeholders, facilitators, and partners.
3. Tackle more complex projects
4. Own Enterprise Analysis Responsibilities
5. Understand the Business Process
6. New Business Domains are NO Problem for Business Analyst.
7. Lead the BA effort
8. Can be consultants for Internal Stakeholders.


Job Prospects:
The 2006-2016 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report predicts BA's will be among the fastest growing IT Occupations, while Google, Infosys, Wipro and their like are constantly on the lookout for Business analysis graduates with the acumen to undertake critical business projects.

Career prospects for this course are quite promising, with multinational gaints often visiting leading international educational institutions to recruit promising students as Business Analyst. With the Business Analysis Qualifiaction earned abroad and experience earned during your study tenure, you can start with a salary f about Rs. 4,20,000 an reach Rs. 15,00,000 or evn more over the years, as you nurture your career.


The various Types of Analytics Jobs:
Analytics jobs are of various types including Data Analytics, Web Analytics, Marketing Analytics, System Analytics, Analytics Consultant, Financial Analytics, Investment Anslytics, Business Analytics and so on.


further doubts or queries feel free to contact.

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Regards,
Rahul.
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