The evolving role of Business Analyst in a digital world.

Todays world is moving and growing rapidly to the next level every now and then. When it comes to digital world it seems that there is no limit in it expansion and evolution. Along with the digital world the career associated to this world and technology also evolving. One of the role in todays digital world is of Business Analyst. There is huge gap seen in the digital world where a technology needs to meet with business needs, for example a business man who is having digital business might not have an idea of technology behind it. He might not explain what his business needs in technical term but in anyways wants to satisfy those needs to run his business. By analysis the situation the gap is identified in this growing section, the gap has been filled with the role of an business analyst. A business analyst is a person who is well knowledge to meet the business need with the technology need. A person who acts as a bridge between the business needs and technical needs. Business analyst is trained in a way that they can gather the requirements from business owners, understands it, analyses it and prepare some technical documents and diagrams that are well understood by technical team. He/ She is associated and collaborate throughout the process till the business requirements meets. BA also communicates with all the stakeholders and keep them informed about the status of work and makes sure the work is aligned to the need. People's like started to depend on digital world for there day to day routine. In such cases a BA plays an vital role in the industry. The digital world asks for higher efficiencies whereas a BA ensures to deliver it by strategic planning and stating clear requirements that has to be delivered by the end of the deliver cycle. The digital world demands lowest risk as competition is high BA ensure and testes each and every requirement to meet the expected criteria. The world comes up with evolving needs and trends so the BA is well prepared for a change requests. He/ She uses a methodologies that are designed for such evolving world. One of the most popular methodology used by now a days BA is Agile. Agile provided the requirement in small segments to ensure the quality and as well as prepared for the changes. In this way by using such approaches a BA is prepared for change requests in the business needs and manage requirements deliveries. BA comes up with the risk analysis and some mitigation techniques to overcome it. A BA after gaining significant market experience can acts as a product owner or a scrum master. Where product owner is responsible for the product visions and features and ensures the correct, complete and fast delivery of the product. Scrum master is responsible in agile methodology to ensure the correctness of the requirements and its delivery. The primary role of an business analyst was to gather requirements but with this evolving world his/her roles are evolved throughout the product delivery till the deployment and maintenance. With the evolving world the compliance has been evolved BA handles the audits and prepared all relevant documents updated. BA ensure the organization stays and sustains in the competitive and dynamic world.