{"id":4609,"date":"2021-03-22T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2021-04-06T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:07:39","slug":"what-does-the-business-analyst-do-part-2-role-of-the-ba-vs-role-of-the-project-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/?p=4609","title":{"rendered":"What does the Business Analyst do?  Part 2 &#8211; Role of the BA vs. Role of the Project Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Role of the BA vs. Role of the Project Manager<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Ideally, the project manager and the BA will <u>both<\/u> be involved in the project as early as project initiation, each with clearly defined roles.\u00a0 The project manager is responsible for orchestrating the <strong>project<\/strong> as a whole, and the BA is responsible for ensuring that <strong>requirements<\/strong> clearly reflect business needs and remain mapped to the business strategy.\u00a0 Specifically, the project manager has overall responsibility for all <strong>project<\/strong> activities while the BA is responsible for all activities related to <strong>requirements<\/strong> development.\u00a0 The project manager has primary responsibility for the vision and scope report and reviews the business requirements document (BRD) and the master test plan.\u00a0 The <u>BA authors the BRD<\/u> and contributes to the <u>master test plan<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<u>Project Manager<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concerned with overall <strong>project;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Manages the project according to the triple constraint: time, cost, and scope;<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrates PMP competencies;<\/li>\n<li>Defines <strong>project<\/strong> scope;<\/li>\n<li>Ensures the project is delivered on time, within budget, and within scope &#8211; removes issues\/barriers;<\/li>\n<li>Manages the <strong>change request process;<\/strong> \u200b<\/li>\n<li>Identifies, assesses and evaluates overall project\/organizational risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Business Analyst <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u200bConcerned with the overall success of the <u>solution;<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Manages requirements to ensure they are traceable, verifiable, and justifiable;<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrates CBAP competencies;<\/li>\n<li>Defines <strong>solution<\/strong> scope and works with project manager to refine project scope if necessary;<\/li>\n<li>\u200bEnsures the &#8220;right&#8221; product is built &#8211; the one that meets the customer&#8217;s needs;<\/li>\n<li>Manages the <strong>requirements<\/strong> necessary to support proposed change requests;<\/li>\n<li>\u200bIdentifies assesses and evaluates risks associated with requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next installment, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/2015\/05\/22\/what-does-the-business-analyst-do-part-3-role-of-the-ba-vs-role-of-the-systems-analyst-and-test-manager\/\">The Role of the BA vs. Role of the Systems Analyst and Test Manager<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role of the BA vs. Role of the Project Manager Ideally, the project manager and the BA will both be involved in the project as early as project initiation, each with clearly defined roles.\u00a0 The project manager is responsible for orchestrating the project as a whole, and the BA is responsible for ensuring that requirements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566,569,568],"tags":[715,64,65,820],"class_list":["post-4609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-analysis-performance-coaching","category-leadership-performance-coaching","category-management","tag-analysis","tag-business","tag-business-analysis","tag-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4626,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions\/4626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcorrigan.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}