Role of System Analyst: Information Systems Analysis and Design
- 1. Roles of System Analyst Advanced Information Systems Analysis and Design
- 2. Who is a System Analyst? • The system analyst is a person who is thoroughly aware of the system and guides the system development project by giving proper directions. He is an expert having technical and interpersonal skills to carry out development tasks required at each phase. • He pursues to match the objectives of information system with the organization goal.
- 3. Main Roles • Defining and understanding the requirement of user through various Fact finding techniques. • Prioritizing the requirements by obtaining user consensus. • Gathering the facts or information and acquires the opinions of users. • Maintains analysis and evaluation to arrive at appropriate system which is more user friendly. • Suggests many flexible alternative solutions, pick the best solution, and quantify cost and benefits.
- 4. Attributes of a System Analyst • Interpersonal Skills • Management Skills • Technical • Analytical
- 5. Requirement Determination • A requirement is a vital feature of a new system which may include processing or capturing of data, controlling the activities of business, producing information and supporting the management. • Requirements determination involves studying the existing system and gathering details to find out what are the requirements, how it works, and where improvements should be made
- 6. Information Gathering Technique • The main aim of fact finding techniques is to determine the information requirements of an organization used by analysts to prepare a precise SRS understood by user