LEC-2 [SYSTEM ANALYST]

• TECHNICAL

  Understand the potential and limitations of information technology. It helps to understand how computers, data networks, databases, and operating systems work together. The system analyst must also be able to work with complex programming languages.
• BUSINESS

  defined as the value of the business. It encompasses all elements that determine the well-being and health of a business.
• ANALYTICAL

  The ability to collect and analyze data is essential for a business systems analyst. In this role, you must understand the data and identify trends to make recommendations to improve the system.
• INTERPERSONAL

  or also known as people skills are the vital skills a person uses to communicate  and/or  interact  with  others  including  persuasion, delegation, and active listening. These skills are extremely important as they help the system analyst work with other system professionals, programmers, and importantly the end users.
• MANAGEMENT

  help the system analyst manage projects, their resources, the possible threats and risks, and finally the ongoing changes. This ability to make decisions, understand concepts, develop ideas, and implement strategies proves very important for a system analyst.
• ETHICAL

  professionalism, respect for the work and teammates, integrity, timeliness, and discipline.
• SYSTEM ANALYST

  A  system  analyst  is  someone  who  is  in  charge  of  designing, transforming, modifying, and evaluating different systems to ensure compatibility and users’ efficiency and effectiveness and also turns user requirements into a set of functional specifications, which are the blueprint of the system.
• DUTIES OF SYSTEM ANALYSIS:

  Consulting with management and users to determine the needs of the system.

  Designing a system to meet the business objectives and goals.

  Specifying inputs and formatting outputs to meet users’ needs.
• BUSINESS ANALYST

  A business analyst is a person who analyzes, organizes, explores, and investigates an organization documents its business and also assesses the business model, and integrates the whole organization with modern technology.

  Business analyst acts as a bridge and channel between the clients, consumers, and the development team. Business development and requirements  are  translated,  transformed,  and  interpreted  to functional specifications by a business analyst.
• REQUIREMENTS ANALYST

  A requirements analyst is the person who elicits, analyzes, validates, and manages the requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Eliciting requirements - involve  asking  the  right  questions,  listening  actively,  observing  behaviors, and facilitating workshops or interviews.
• Analyzing requirements - ensure that they are clear, consistent, complete, feasible, and testable.
• Validating requirements - ensure that they meet the expectations and needs of the stakeholders and users. Validating requirements involves reviewing, verifying, and validating the requirements with the relevant parties, as well as conducting tests, prototypes, or simulations.
• Managing requirements - ensure that they are aligned with the project scope, objectives, and changes. Managing requirements involves documenting, tracing, baselining, and controlling the requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Communicating requirements - ensure that they are understood and agreed by all the project participants. Communicating requirements involves creating, presenting, and distributing the requirements artifacts, such as specifications, diagrams, or user stories.
• Improving requirements - ensure that they are continuously refined and optimized. Improving requirements involving evaluating, measuring, and improving the requirements, process, methods, and outcomes.
• INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYST

  finds  and  fixes  problems  within  an organization’s computer network. As an infrastructure analyst, your job duties include monitoring and assessing the systems and finding areas that need upgrading or improvement.
• Duties and Responsibilities of an Infrastructure Analyst:

  • Provide internal support to users, diagnosing incidents and troubleshooting problems
  • Create and implement plans for technology migrations and upgrades
  • Provide user support for mobile devices, tablets, and other business technology
• CHANGE MANAGEMENT ANALYST

  help businesses lessen the unpredictability that comes with making necessary changes by supervising the change-making process.

  
  

  They ensure smooth communication across the company during the changeover process, often using technological tools such as Sharepoint to make sure that everyone is on the same page.
• PROJECT MANAGER

  Project  managers  play  the  lead  role  in  planning,  executing, monitoring, controlling and closing projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope, the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project.
• SYSTEM DESIGN and LIFE CYCLE (SDLC) refers to a methodology with clearly defined processes for creating high-quality software. Focuses on the following phases of software development:

  • Requirement analysis
  • Planning
  • Architectural design
  • Software development
  • Testing
  • Deployment
• STAGES AND BEST PRACTICES:

  • Identify the current problems: "What are the current problem?"
  • Plan: "What do we want?"
  • Design: "How will we get what we want?"
  • Build: "Let's create what we want."
  • Code Test: "Did we get what we want?"
  • Software Development: "Let's start using what we got."