Community Business Analyst

Owned by Grace Potma
Last updated: Dec 24, 2022
2 min read

Description

Community Business Analysts (BAs) identify and escalate pain points of real-world users and implementer organizations. They are great communicators who repeatedly explain top priorities and help partners to triage high-impact, high-value work to benefit both the OpenMRS community and Global Goods partners.

Responsibilities

This role includes activities such as:

  • Communication: 
    • Bring together stakeholders, being the bridge across partners, orgs, people, projects
    • “Unsticking” organizations or partners confused about priorities or the value a product can bring to their organization
    • Help to get high-priority, high-value ideas into a “ready to go”, clearly communicated state that the design and/or development team can act on
    • On-call for issues that come up during design, development, or delivery, where we need to clarify user stories, market context, etc
    • Solve problems collaboratively with other organizations
  • Discovery:
    • Organize feedback
    • Collect, distill, and disseminate user research and industry research
    • Partner with designers on user research, design feedback, and prioritize high-value user workflows
  • Development:
    • Roadmap creation, maintenance and escalation
    • Creating actionable issues/tickets and following up regularly on high-priority issues
    • Supporting developers to understand business requirements
    • Solid baseline project management skills
    • Facilitates sprint preparation (where applicable) and facilitates sprint activity by gathering requirements, and converting epics/stories into actionable tickets
    • Backlog review, cleaning/curation, & prioritization
    • Diving into code or config files (if able) if they need small tweaks, or to understand work complexity
    • May apply tools such as those in the Business Analyst Framework kit
  • Delivery:
    • Create or Support documentation and training materials 
    • Release communication planning and clear release notes
    • Success Metrics planning

Requirements

  • Has obtained PM stage 3; AND,
  • Commitment to understanding users, demonstrated through routine virtual and in-person user interviews; AND,
  • An established precedent of community product contributions: Clear, demonstrated evidence of the above types of activities successfully used for community product momentum; AND,
  • Actively growing in the foundational Product Management categories of Communication, Discovery, Development, and Delivery, as evidenced by recent product or feature success, and/or growth, e.g. as demonstrated in an ongoing PM Self-Assessment; AND,
  • Demonstrates ongoing learning about the modern Product Team process and how to improve, e.g. through attending webinars, workshops, conferences, or online courses (e.g. Industry Virtual conference; Product-Led Certification course; etc.).