Business Analyst

Structured business analysis frameworks for bridging the gap between stakeholders and engineering teams. This skill provides templates, modeling techniques, and communication tools that translate business needs into actionable technical requirements.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill for:

• Eliciting and documenting requirements from stakeholders
• Modeling business processes to identify inefficiencies and automation opportunities
• Writing functional specifications that engineers can implement without ambiguity
• Analyzing data structures and defining data dictionaries for new systems
• Performing gap analysis between current capabilities and desired future state
• Creating acceptance criteria and test scenarios from business rules
• Managing stakeholder communication throughout the requirements lifecycle

Trigger phrases: "requirements gathering", "business process", "functional spec", "gap analysis", "data dictionary", "acceptance criteria", "stakeholder interview", "use case", "BPMN", "as-is to-be", "swimlane diagram", "traceability matrix", "UAT plan", "requirements sign-off", "change request"

What This Skill Does