261111 – ICT Business Analysts
Identifies and communicates with users to formulate and produce a requirements specification to create system and software solutions.
Description of Employment Duties:
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working with users to formulate and document business requirements
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identifying, investigating, and analyzing business processes, procedures and work practices
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identifying and evaluating inefficiencies and recommending optimal business practices, and system functionality and behavior
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using project management methodologies, principles and techniques to develop project plans and to cost, resource and manage projects
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taking responsibility for deploying functional solutions, such as creating, adopting and implementing system test plans, which ensure acceptable quality and integrity of the system
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creating user and training documentation, and conducting formal training classes
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developing functional specifications for use by system developers
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using data and process modeling techniques to create clear system specifications for the design and development of system software
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acting as a central reference and information source, providing guidance and assistance in the system project decision making process
Description of Closely Related Core ICT Units:
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Business Information Systems
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Business Intelligence
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Business Process Reengineering
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Business System planning
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Enterprise architecture – (Enterprise Resource Management, Emerging Technologies)
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Expert Systems
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Information System Management
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Information Systems, Management Information Systems
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Object Oriented Systems Analysis and Design
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Requirements gathering
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Software Engineering
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Systems Analysis and Design
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System Development
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System Integration
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System Modeling
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UML
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User Requirements Definition
Description of Additional Closely Related ICT Units:
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Algorithm design (Algorithm development)
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Artificial intelligence
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Automata theory
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Computer Science
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Critical Path Method
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Database design, Database implementation
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Database Management Systems – (Relational Database, Object Oriented Database, RDBMS)
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File Processing
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Human Computer Interaction
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Introduction to ICT – (Introduction to Computer Science, Computer Theory, Introduction to Business Computing, Computer Science I)
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Introduction to Information Systems
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Programming – (C, C++, Objective C, Visual C, Basic, Visual Basic, Java, Assembler, Cobol, Pascal, PL/1, Fortran, PHP, Pearl, AS3, FoxPro, and similar)
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Project Management
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Quality management – (Quality Assurance, Software Quality)
- software validation (Software Testing, Testing strategies and methods)
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Web Engineering – (Web Design, Internet Engineering)
