The Analyst Roles

Business-Process Analyst The Business-Process Analyst is responsible for defining the business architecture, the business use cases and actors, and how they interact. The Business-Process Analyst leads and coordinates business use-case modeling by outlining and delimiting the organization being modeled, for example, by establishing what business actors and business use cases exist and how they interact. The Business-Process Analyst is responsible for the business architecture, outlining and delimiting the organization being modeled .

Business Designer The Business Designer details the specification of a part of the organization. The Business Designer specifies the workflow of business use cases in terms of business workers and business entities. It also distributes the behavior to these business workers and business entities ”defining their responsibilities, operations, attributes, and relationships.

System Analyst The System Analyst leads and coordinates requirements elicitation and use-case modeling by outlining the system's functionality and delimiting the system, for example, identifying what actors exist and what use cases they will require when interacting with the system.

Requirements Specifier The Requirements Specifier specifies the details of one or more parts of the system's functionality by describing one or more of the aspects of the requirements. Different aspects of the requirements are typically documented in different types of software requirements artifacts: use cases, supplementary specifications, and so on. The Requirements Specifier may be responsible for many of those artifacts ”such as one or more use cases or use-case packages ”and for maintaining the integrity of the requirements within and among those artifacts.