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The Business Analysis Lifecycle

Part of the Business Analyst Roadmap.

Summary

A typical flow — identify the business need, elicit and analyze requirements, document and validate them, support design and delivery, then verify the solution actually solved the original problem.

How to Learn This

  • 1Sketch a real or hypothetical project through all stages of this lifecycle.
  • 2Identify which stage is most commonly rushed or skipped in real projects.
  • 3Learn why the lifecycle often loops back on itself rather than proceeding linearly.

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