Business Analyst

Description

The Business Analyst facilitates sprint activity by gathering requirements, and converting epics/stories into actionable tickets.

Requirements

• Business analyst training/experience

• Good communication skills

• Ability to work well with developers and product owners

Responsibilities

• “Gets information out of the heads of product owners & technical leaders (preferably non-invasively, but okay if necessary) organized into actionable sprints” – i.e., get OpenMRS Sprints from an idea to “ready to go”

• Facilitates sprint preparation (at least 80% of effort)

  • Meets with product owner(s) and technical leader(s) for the sprint to identify requirements/epics and turn these into stories with appropriate acceptance criteria.

  • Works with the technical leader(s) to operationalize stories.

  • Builds the rapid board and facilitates creation of the sprint (i.e., deciding which stories/tickets from the backlog will be included).

• Facilitates sprints (up to 15% of effort)

  • On-call for issues that come up during a sprint, where we need to clarify stories, or create new ones.

• Help community development swim lane with writing good quality stories and curating tickets

  • Communicate at least weekly with community development leader

  • Ensure that tickets/stories curated and assessed by community developers are of good quality