• EVALUATE AND STRATEGE SOLUTIONS

For software solutions and enhancements, a deeper dive into the technical side may be required.  Business analyst consultants are liaisons between the business users that request improvements and technical developers that code solutions.  Having come up to speed on the project, the analyst will devise a solution and create a story board and wireframe diagram that contain all of the proposed changes.  The analyst may also create clickable prototypes as a tool that demonstrates a proposed solution and present it to business users.  This clickable prototype may be reviewed and iterated upon to assure that the business users accept the solution.  Once preliminarily accepted, the business analyst will hand off the resulting documentation to the developers with all needed technical and functional requirements including wireframes and data models needed for the developer to program a sound solution.  In some cases, the business analyst, knowing the changed data requirements, may propose modified data models that meet the data requirements.

• RESEARCH SOLUTIONS, CREATE COMPETITOR ANALYSES

Ducks in a Row business analyst will research relevant technologies, perform competitive analyses and collaborate with technical teams to propose innovative solutions, analyze tradeoffs while providing targeted functionality, usability, reliability, performance and supportability. This includes the selection of key performance indicators (KPI).