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Business analysis
Business analysis is the cornerstone to a project's success as this activity translates business users' needs into technical requirements and plays a key role in the determination of the solutions.
At Blue Star, we have a highly structured and professional approach to business analysis that enables to increase project efficiency and maximize adequation with business requirements.
Our scope of expertise
Our business analysts use a workshop driven approach to gather requirements, determine the solution and monitor its implementation. Their typical role during the different phases of the project involves :
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Requirements gathering |
Analysis and solution |
Solution validation |
Change management |
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Identify stakeholders and define requirement management process. Understand the business needs and how those fit into the overall organization's strategy. Conduct detail requirements workshops and document requirement. Validate and review documented requirement. |
Analyze and prioritize requirements. Perform gap analysis with existing solution. Document detailed functional specifications. Conduct specifications validation workshops with users. |
Define user and operational acceptance test strategy and business criteria. Detail test scenario and cases. Monitor user acceptance testing. |
Identify impacted processes and groups of users. Define training strategy, build training materials, conduct training. Document and communicate changes in processes. Define go-live strategy and support users during solution roll-out. |
Because users are usually focused on their own day to day issues, our business analyst are taught to challenge and go beyond the requirement expressed by users in order to proactively build a solution that will not only meet their requirements but that will also maximize the business benefits and optimize company processes.
Moreover, actual business analysis performance can only be measured when the solution is implemented and effectively used by the business with maximum outcomes.
For that reason we expect our business analyst to take responsibility for both solution design and change management. To read more about our change management approach...
Our deliverables and toolboxes
We have defined a detailed business analysis framework that formalize the different stages and deliverables throughout the project. Here are the key ones
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Along with their business knowledge which is one of our key recruitment criteria, our consultant are trained to use this methodology and we believe that as such they are optimally equipped to help you exceed your objectives.
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