What is the Role of Business analyst in SharePoint?
I don’t think a BA needs to have these things. Yours sound like things for a SharePoint architect rather. A BA in my opinion needs to select and tell the client which requirements defined that client needs to prioritize. If the client agrees and make a decision to go with priorities then BA needs to work with IMPLEMENTATION team to help them clearly understand through Business Case, Use Case, Flow Diagram, Constraint or something like that.
I don’t think BA needs to have good understanding of on-code and off-code solution as well. The SharePoint architect must understand that to design a whole architecture.
For example, a company needs their vendors to be able to access documents stored in SharePoint document library. What the BA would need to ask that company are:
- Does the company need to manage vendor’s accounts? If Yes then SP Architect would design FBA solution. If No and vendors have their own Active Directory and they need to use domain account so SP architect would go with federation solution using AD FS for example.
- Permission matrix-table (including details of granular permission requirement)
- Any requirement for iPad, iPhone accessibility?
- Are those venders require to be authenticated through a web-based security gate way? If Yes, then SP architect would plan for Forefront UAG.
- Is there any requirement for a dedicated permission management portal for vendors?
- …blah blah..
SharePoint architect needs to work with SP Admin to design an infrastructure that has the ability to meet that access requirement
Regards,
-T.s
