| Role:
 Business-Process AnalystThe 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.  
 
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