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| <skills><p>
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| An analyst needs the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
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| </p>
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| <ul>
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| <li>
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| Expertise in identifying and understanding problems and opportunities
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| Ability&nbsp;to articulate the needs that are associated with the key problem to be solved or opportunity to be
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| realized
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| Ability to collaborate effectively with the extended team through collaborative working sessions, workshops, JAD
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| sessions and other techniques.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| Good communication skills, verbally and in writing
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| Knowledge of the business and technology domains or the ability to quickly absorb and understand such information
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| <br /></skills> |
| <assignmentApproaches><p>
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| This role can be assigned in the following ways:
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| </p>
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| <ul>
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| On small, agile teams this role is often shared among several team members that also perform other roles.&nbsp; See
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| <a class="elementLinkWithType"
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| href="./../../openup/guidances/guidelines/self_organize_work_assignments_F47FC314.html"
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| guid="_rmBEkJjsEduad8I_c-ogIA">Guideline: Self Organize Work Assignments</a>&nbsp;and <a
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| class="elementLinkWithType" href="./../../openup/guidances/guidelines/staffing_project_70705561.html"
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| guid="_Jq64EJjsEduad8I_c-ogIA">Guideline: Staffing a Project</a>&nbsp;for more information on this approach.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| One (or more)&nbsp;team member(s) performs this role exclusively. This commonly adopted approach is suitable for
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| complex requirements that are difficult to gather.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| One staff (or more) team member(s) performs both this role and the <a class="elementLink"
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| href="./../../openup/roles/tester_9859B590.html" guid="_0ZM4MclgEdmt3adZL5Dmdw">Tester</a> role. This is a good
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| option for smaller or resource-constrained test teams.
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| </li>
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| </ul></assignmentApproaches> |
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