Success depends on analysts who effectively understand and speak to both, the business and information technology stakeholders.

 Requirements Elicitation

• Requirements serve as the foundation to the business needs.
• Requirements must be complete, clear, correct, and consistent.
• Leveraging proven means to elicit requirements helps meet these quality goals.

Requirements Management and Communication

• Manage and express requirements to a broad and diverse audience.
• Ensure that all stakeholders have a shared understanding.
• Ensure that those stakeholders with approval authority are in agreement.

Requirements Analysis

• Analyze stated requirements to define the capabilities of a potential solution that will fulfill stakeholder needs.

Solution Assessment and Validation

• Ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
• Assess and validate business processes, organizational structures, outsourcing agreements, software applications, and any other component of a solution.

Logical Design

• Document how the business data is structured, stored & accessed (the data).
• Document how the business data flows as inputs & outputs of system operations (what the system does with the data).
• Document how the system operations satisfy business process rules, activities & actions (the key rules to be considered).

User Experience Analysis

• Document the application workflows (how the user moves through the system).
• Mockup the user interface (how operations are accessed and how data is displayed).

Testing 

• Integration Testing:  Test components of a system as they are developed.
• System Testing:  Test a system against it’s functional requirements.
• Regression Testing:  Test changes to a system (bug fixes, vendor updates, …).
• User Acceptance Testing:  Test a system against it’s user requirements.