Plan the Business Analysis Phase of a Software Project Needs as Carefully, as the Development and QA Ones
The above is especially true if you are going to build really usable and understandable software.
We are old-timers in full-cycle Business Analysis, and we have long been providing Business Analysis services to Telcos and other corporates. We communicate with our clients' business stakeholders, look into these companies' business needs, gain an in-depth understanding of these needs, develop an appropriate BA approach, perform Requirements Management, document the requirements, validate the resulting solution, and, even, adjust the transition requirements, as they get influenced by regulations-caused changes (such as, for example, the adoption of GDPR).
We Provide the Following Business Analysis Services:
- Business Analysis Outsourcing
- Requirement Management Services
- Requirements Definition and Documentation
- Solution Design and Validation
Nevertheless, as unbeatable gurus in this area, our Business Analysis team can take the wand even in the middle of a software development process. For example, this can happen when your project is at a stalemate, and you, all of a sudden, realize that your developers are interpreting your requirements a way they want, while your testers are picking fights with them every 5 minutes, but fail to get the point of your real demands. Here, you can either call the fire department or get emergency Business Analysis support.
An additional superpower we have as a Business Analysis services company is our vast experience in working with databases using the SQL languages. This experience enables our BAs to find the right answers and solutions on their own, by just delving into your tangled data storage.
SQL-Savvy Analysts
Being a Business Analysis service provider, we have gained tremendous experience in working with SQL databases, and this is our key strength. Expertise in databases using SQL languages helps our BAs to make the conclusions and offer solutions and improvements just on the base of your advanced data storage assessment.
Analytically Thinking
We launched our Business Analysis Services practice more than 10 years ago, solidified our experience with the theory, and there are no unsolvable tasks for us now.
Communicative and Easy-Going
Our personal qualities, work ethics, ability to always understand a client and, even, our sense of humor can, often, spare you an entire elicitation session. And, certainly, we never mind facilitating our interactions with you through face-to-face communication.
Proactive and Self-Organized
We're not used to just waiting for the next requirement workshop. Instead, we dig in and find the right answer.
Team Synergetic
We are not just one single or two individual BAs, but a strong and closely-knit team. We communicate and share knowledge and experience to always deliver the best results.
Data Mining-Savvy
All of us have a technical IT background. We are well-familiar with data querying and modeling, which is, oftentimes, essential for gaining insights and making decisions.
To Elicit Requirements
- Document Analysis
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Observation
- Requirement Workshops
- Survey/Questionnaires
- Prototyping
- Interface Analysis
To Analyze an Enterprise
- Brainstorming
- Business Rules Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
- SWOT Analysis
- Estimations
- Functional Decomposition
- Vendor Assessment
To Analyze and Prioritize Requirements
- Business Rules Analysis
- Functional Decomposition
- Interviews
- Organization Modeling
- Process Modeling
- Scope Modeling
- Decision Analysis
- MoSCoW Analysis
- Timeboxing/Budgeting
- Risk Analysis
- Structured Walkthrough
To Organize and Document Requirements
- Scenarios and Use Cases
- User Stories with Acceptance Criteria
- Mockups Preparing
- Data Dictionary and Glossary
- Problem Tracking (Coverage Matrix)
- Metrics and Key Performance Indicators
- Non-functional Requirements Analysis
- Data Flow Diagrams
- Data Modeling
- State Diagrams
- Sequence Diagrams
Our Lead Experts
Oksana Shirayeva
BA Lead, Project Manager
Oksana has spent more than 15 years in the software development industry, 13 out of those as a Business and System Analyst. She has worked on a number of Telecom, Banking, AI, and EAI client projects.
During the last several years, Oksana has held the position of a Project Manager and led SYTOSS’s large Business Analysis team. She takes a great interest in Artificial Intelligence and is an active member of the domestic AI community and a frequent participant in various AI events.
Oksana holds an MA degree in Automation Control and Artificial Intelligence Systems from Zhukovsky Kharkiv National Aerospace University.
Andrey Kolesnik
Senior Business Analyst
Andrey Kolesnik has been involved in implementing various Windows-to-Unix migration and software development projects since 2002.
He has more than 5 years of experience in C++/UNIX/Oracle development and more than 10 years of experience in Business and System Analysis in the areas of Billing, Customer Care, and integration in complex corporate environments.
Andrey has contributed heavily to the optimization of our company’s software development and documentation creation processes. He is also a frequent participant in conferences and workshops, related to Business Analysis and Project Management.
Andrey Kolesnik holds an MA degree in Computing Systems Design from Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics.
