Title: Roles of the Business Analyst | Modern Analyst
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Roles of the Business Analyst
What is a Business Analyst?

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Roles of the Business Analyst
What is a Business Analyst? While business analysts are playing a pivotal role in the life of any organization, the business analysis profession is in relative infancy. What is expected of today’s analyst varies so widely from organization to organization and from project to project that it is neither possible nor practical to come up with a one-size-fits-all comprehensive description of what a business analyst does and the roles (s)he's expected to perform. BA Roles/Titles
* Business Analyst
* Business Architect
* Business Process Analyst
* IT Business Analyst
* Requirements Engineer
* Business Systems Analyst
* Systems Analyst
* Data Analyst
* Functional Architect
* Usability/UX Analyst
So what is a Business Analyst? Let's start first by taking a look at what business analysis is. Here's the definition found in the IIBA's BABOK v2 draft: “…Business analysis is the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and recommend solutions that enable organizations to achieve its goals…”
The first thing you should notice in the above definition is that the business analyst works in the context of an organization (not necessarily a business). The term "business" implies the ultimate goal of making money. But there are other types of organizations whose primary objective is not to make money. Such organizations include: