What is Ba? How about Ba? What is the relationship between Ba and Bi?

A few days ago, a friend mentioned in the comment area BA The role of , What is it , Let me say something about .

What is? BA

BA The full name of English is Business Analyst, It literally means business analyst , Have done business intelligence BI You should know more about the project . In fact, in my personal experience ,BA My role is more like a business requirements analyst with a technical background 、 Integration of product managers .

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BA It can be analyzed from the following four perspectives ：

First of all ,BA The basic requirement is to have a certain technical background , For example   business intelligence BI The field has at least some SQL Foundation , Master the ability of one or several visual analysis tools 、EXCEL Also quite skilled . Understand business intelligence BI System architecture and design , The best thing is to have a certain programming foundation and IT background , This makes it easier to understand the background of some projects .

second ,BA Need to have certain industry business experience , Even without experience in some industries , Also have a strong business thinking , You can quickly get familiar with and understand the characteristics of the whole industry in a short time , And you can dig deep , It means consulting and research . It also needs to connect with various business departments 、 Understand business needs , Familiar with business intelligence BI Project features .

Third ,BA Have a strong ability to write business requirements documents , It can clearly show the background of business analysis requirements 、 frame 、 The business process , It is more convenient to give technical developers a business explanation and guidance , It is the proponent and proponent of the demand , It is also the establishment of business and IT The bridge between technology , It connects business intelligence BI And the core of the business .

Fourth ,BA There is also a little attribute of project management , In business intelligence BI In the project , Sometimes, we will promote the implementation of business needs and Technology , But the overall proportion is small .

BA How about now

at present BA This role has a lot of business intelligence in China BI It is not reflected in the project , The main reason is that many projects are rushed , The project cycle is compressed severely , Rarely set aside enough time to sort out the needs , Carry out detailed research 、 Design , Basically, they summarize while combing . Because once you want to expand the project cycle , The ability and motivation of customers to pay is a very practical problem . Naturally, from the perspective of considering the project cost , This position is in many business intelligence BI Basically, the project will not be specially selected .

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therefore , Basically, only in some particularly large 、 Long term business intelligence BI On the project BA Role , also BA There is more than one person , It's a team , Is less 2-3 people , many 10 Come to . Business intelligence abroad BI There will be more projects , There's a lot about BA Recruitment positions for . At home , Most of them have transnational backgrounds 、 Business intelligence with foreign investment BI Projects usually set up such roles , This is actually a domestic and international response to IT Different ideas and methods of project construction and project management lead to .

BA Experience summary

Some friends also asked , You said so much , You did BA No, . I did BA, Business intelligence in a foreign country BI On the project , But at that time, he was still young , I don't think it was good enough , So this is an experience I usually don't want to mention .

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Reflect on this business intelligence BI Do the project BA A bad place to do , The first is the technical level , It's easy to fall into technical details , Only a specific point is considered 、 Implementation of a point , But I didn't consider it in the whole business intelligence BI The relationship and feasibility with other business modules in the system design , Finally, there is no way to really implement when the technical design documents are written by the technical development .

second , Business level , There is no systematic combing of business intelligence BI The existing business system in the project 、 Relationship before business architecture , Not fully aware of the business , It leads to a lack of thorough understanding of many businesses , There is no real deep excavation and guidance of valuable business points , As a result, a lot of things are realized at the end .

Sometimes we are in business intelligence BI Projects often complain about why customers put forward so many questions and ideas in the end , In fact, it's not the customer that has a problem , It's because we had time to sort it out but didn't do it well in the early stage . If you can really understand the customer's ideas , Or stand at a higher level than the customer's point of view to think clearly about some problems , Many problems can be solved in the early stage .

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therefore , Be a good and excellent BA In fact, it is very challenging , The requirements are also very high . Technical thinking 、 There is also business thinking , We should have perfect product thinking . Of course , If our fathers of Party A can pay attention to the importance of sorting out business needs , Willing to pay more ,BA This profession still has a good development space in China .