Roles and Activities > Analyst Role Set > Business-Process Analyst

Role:  Business-Process Analyst

The business-process analyst leads and coordinates business use-case modeling by outlining and delimiting the organization being modeled; for example, establishing what business actors and business use cases exist and how they interact. The business process analyst is responsible for the business architecture. He/she is shown below as responsible for Artifact: Business Object Model because of this overall architectural responsibility, even though Role: Business Designer creates and maintains it.

Staffing

A person acting as business-process analyst must be a good facilitator and have excellent communication skills. Knowledge of the business domain is essential to have for those acting in this role, however, it's not necessary for everyone.

A business-process analyst is prepared to:

• Assess the situation of the target organization where the project's end-product will be deployed. 
• Understand customer and user requirements, their strategies, and their goals. 
• Facilitate modeling of the target organization. 
• Discuss and facilitate a business engineering effort, if needed. 
• Perform a cost/benefit analysis for any suggested changes in the target organization. 
• Discuss and support those who market and sell the end-product of the project.