Objectives
• Understand the core competences of a Business Analyst
• Understand the skills that should be developed
• Identify the need for external and internal environment analysis
• Explore tools and techniques for requirements elicitation and reporting
Learning outcomes Assessed
• Devise an appropriate and comprehensive knowledge audit plan to support business analysis requirements.
• Use appropriate modelling tools to interpret and analyse the business context for enterprise systems.
• Critically review approaches to the implementation of enterprise systems within an organisation and any issues that may arise.
• Appraise the ethical and professional issues relevant to a business analyst.
Assessment Task
This assessment item consists of two parts: Part A, and Part B. For each part you have to
create an e-journal using a software tool named Mahara and export your e-journal into
Moodle as an html file.
Assessment item 1: Part A (1000 words) -
Create an e-journal focusing on the topics:
1. core competences a business analyst should have.
2. skills that should be developed for a business analyst.
3. The models that can be used for strategy formulation analysing the external and internal environment.
4. Relationship between organisational strategy and knowledge audit plan.