ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the areas of project management that are most likely to be of interest to a business analyst, looks at some of the unique challenges that the business analyst may face during the analysis phase of a project. The business analyst is typically responsible for the planning of the requirements gathering effort. The business analyst and the customer are co–located and both parties are experienced and understand both the business and the systems environment, then the planning effort can be fairly minimal. Manage the plan whenever possible. After the project has started, when there is a need to update stakeholders on status, that update will largely consist of documenting actual progress and comparing it to the planned progress. Monitoring and controlling risk should be done throughout the analysis phase. The business analyst should be integrated and really be a subset of the overall project plan.
