Functional Consulting - Business Analyst's Toolkit

Large Application Development projects can be categorized in following phases:
1. Definition
2. Analyze
3. Design
4. Construction
5. Validations & Support

Based on type of project, whether it’s inclined towards consulting or a full fledge development activities, the time spend in each phases varies. Functional consultant depending upon the phase in which he/she is working play a different role to support the project activities.

In the series of blogs, readers can go through the different phases of the project and get an understanding on the critical tasks performed by the functional consultants and also the type of deliverables/ artifacts developed by them during each phases.

As each project is unique to the client therefore Consultants can use this blog as a reference point (like a checklist) and later customize their approach based on client’s methodology or project’s specific requirements.

I have taken inputs from the leading requirement management consulting firms who are willing to share their best practices with others, like - The Atlantic Systems Guild Inc., Watermark Learning and Process Impact, to inject best practices for the requirement management processes.

I will try to provide links to their sites in the following blogs, which can lead to quite interesting articles/ templates on the requirement management process.

This blog also incorporates some relevant inputs from the functional consultants at the end of one large application development project.

Hope you will find the following series of blogs an interesting read!!