INTL Business Analyst

Business Analyst AoA

Below we have captured more details on the specific work activities that our INTL BAs are responsible for, in general, across all funnel teams.

Requirements Management:

• Understand all requirements associated with a new EPIC or Initiative.
• Work with Product Manager/Owner and Sr Developers/Leads on documenting requirements associated with a particular initiative or EPIC.
• Develop and maintain functional specifications or How to Use This Feature documentation (when appropriate).
• Manage and lead the requirements gathering sessions.

Ticket Development & Refinement:

• Create and refine detailed User Stories consistent with the High Level Requirements noted in the associated EPIC.
• Refine Stories as needed so that they have required detailed to be actioned by the full scrum team.
• Elicit and document ticket dependencies, ensuring that information is tagged correctly and captured in the Dependency Huddle board.
• Ensure all stories meet the agreed Definition of Ready before being taken into sprint planning session
  • Note: for Critical tickets brought in mid sprint, analyze and refine ticket to mitigate risk of ticket issues
• Contribute to work estimates as appropriate so that sprint planning is effective.
• Maintain a healthy backlog consistent with agreed upon targets for INTL. (2 Sprints ahead).
• Manage and lead the ticket refinement process.

Partnering with Third Party Teams (internal/external):

• Facilitate necessary conversations with teams outside of INTL, ensuring necessary tickets are created to address the requirements.
• Facilitate meetings with third parties as required to ensure the work is progressing in such a way as to meet overall EPIC or Project timelines.
• Ensure cross team collaboration is occurring as needed and that any blockers are resolved or escalated as appropriate to keep the work progressing.
• Close out as required and per agreed prioritization (set by the Product Manager/Owner) any outstanding issues that exist post go-live i.e. How-To documents

Process Improvement:

• Help ensure a continual process improvement focus exists across the team, supporting an environment of experimentation and new practice trials.
• Ensure consistency with lulus INTL common practices.
• Contribute to and lead Process Improvement activities as appropriate and per PI roadmap plans, etc.
• Partner with peer Business Analysts to share and leverage lessons learned, fostering a PI culture at all times.