Documentation Mistakes Committed By Every Business Analysis

Business Analysts, Enterprise Architects, Data Analysts, Business Intelligence Analyst and others like them always work to bring positive change within the organization. These changes can be either incremental or enterprise-wide and revolutionary.

Regardless of the size of changes, all the Business Analysis roles mentioned above will involve consolidating requirements. One the most important roles of a Business Analyst involve to extract and document Business change needs from all Stakeholders across the Enterprise.

Most Businesses world-wide are still refining their Business Analysis methods, leading them to make a few common mistakes repeatedly along the way. Here are some such mistakes committed by BAs with regard to Documentation.

1.  Inadequate and inaccurate stakeholder analysis
2. Improper and inaccurate language in the requirements
3. Leaping to design before getting the complete requirements
4.  Losing control and direction of the conversation during elicitation with Stakeholders
5. Getting approval for the requirements without a shared understanding among Stakeholders
6. Feeling requirements must be 100% complete and accurate before sharing with the Stakeholders
7. Not building trust with Stakeholders
8. Blindly using a template
9. State clear and concise requirements
10. Leaving sections blank

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Conclusion

If a Business Analyst follows all the steps that are mentioned above, then he/she is sure to create an effective requirements document and keep all the Stakeholders happy. Maintain a good rapport, be alert, and things will just flow!