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A business analyst is any person who performs business analysis tasks described in
the BABOK® Guide, no matter their job title or organizational role.

Responsibility: discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of sources within an enterprise, including tools, processes,documentation, and stakeholders. eliciting the actual needs of stakeholders which frequently involves investigating and
clarifying their expressed desires in order to determine underlying issues and causes.

Business analysts play a role in aligning the designed and delivered solutions with
the needs of stakeholders.

IIBA Business Analysis Competency Model:

Generalist: Perform business analysis activities using a variety of techniques in initiatives of varying scope. (BA Techniques/Underlying Compentencies.)

Specialist: Perform business analysis activities using a more focused set of Teniques or a single methodology.

Hybrid: Requires some degree of competency in business analysis and contains an overlap  of business analysis and another discipline.

Business Analysis Roles:

perform：完成

收集、整理、输出的过程

synthesizing：识别

交付的结果 实施的方向满足相关方的需要

generalist：全面基础型，对BA有基础的了解

specialist：专家类型，针对某个特定的领域或者行业深入的专业知识

hybrid：混合类型，

consultant：咨询顾问

from generalist to specialist to hybrid

"T" shape BA 

谁是Business Analyst

任何完成BA工作的人都可以称作Business Analyst，和你在组织当中的职务名称(title) 无关。 

人员分类

Generalist：通才，对所有活动方式方法都有基本了解，会使用，可以根据需要选择最合适的方法。所涉及的行业领域差别大，需要随时学习很多业务领域新知识。比如：外包咨询公司的专门顾问。

Specialist：针对某个特定领域或行业有比较深入专业知识或技能，但是其他领域不熟悉。

Hybrid：混合类型。在组织中，除了自己本身的角色，还要适当扮演BA角色。

IIBA商业分析能力模型

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Discovery, synthsizing or category then analysis information to capture the information within the enterprise including tools, process documents and stakeholders. 

Align the design solution requiremetns with the stakeholder requirements to satisfy the stakeholder needs. 

Specialist

Generilist: Consultant from service provider. 

Hybird: Overlap of business analysis and PM.

1. BA三大类：Generalist-通才。Specialist-专才。Hybrid:-复合型人才。

BA: Business Analysis Job, not a specific job title

IIBA: Certificate, 在线申请BA考试

CCBA: 入门级BA