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BUSINESS ANALYSIS SERVICES

What we offer

While many companies pour money into new tech products and innovations, only a few of them succeed in real-world market conditions. This is where our business analysis services come into play. By providing solid ground for software development, business analysis helps to clarify product vision, set sustainable growth vectors from the outset, and build a roadmap to success.

Business analysis leads to predictable results in IT projects. It relies on proven methodologies to identify market gaps, opportunities for growth, and to facilitate communication between stakeholders and development teams. As a result, Business Analysts drive the evolution of software products and optimizes the SDLC to deliver maximum value to both end-users and stakeholders.

Our business analysis services

Product discovery

Great software starts with a strong foundation, and that foundation is built during product discovery phase. We analyze your project from business, user, and tech perspectives to help you validate product ideas, identify key features, and prioritize development efforts. Our team provides guidance on technology choices, scalability, and long-term product strategy, ensuring your product will meet your business needs today and in the future.
Requirements management

We work closely with your product owner to understand product needs and goals and then identify the necessary features. Business Analysts create detailed and comprehensive software requirements specifications (SRS), including functional and non-functional requirements. This documentation serves as a blueprint for the development team, ensuring everyone is on the same page. Any changes and updates are captured, analyzed, and documented promptly throughout the software development lifecycle.
Business process analysis

Our business process analysis expertise will help you streamline operations, optimize workflows, and increase efficiency. Using proven methodologies and tools like process mapping, data analysis, and stakeholder interviews, we identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks in your business processes. This helps you make data-driven decisions about business process optimization, identify opportunities for business process automation, and drive digital transformation. As a result, you reduce manual effort, improve collaboration between teams, increase productivity, and reduce errors.
Software requirements audit

An inefficient software requirements process can cause problems for both new and existing projects. Our Business Analyst will review your existing documentation and requirements pipeline to ensure it’s complete, accurate, and aligned with your business objectives. We will pinpoint any gaps or inconsistencies in your current processes and provide recommendations for improvement based on industry best practices.
BA consulting

Our BA consulting is designed to help you identify opportunities for improvement while ensuring seamless transition of processes and systems during crunch periods. We offer comprehensive analysis, planning, implementation, and management support to help you run your IT project more efficiently. Business Analysts ensure your project meets its goals without compromising budget or resources constraints.

Benefits of our business analysis services

Improved product quality

By collecting and analyzing data on user behavior, Business Analysts identify areas for improvement in software products. This involves everything from usability issues to performance bottlenecks. Addressing these issues before development uplevels the final product’s quality and guarantees user acceptability & satisfaction.
Enhanced stakeholder management

Business analysis helps bridge the communication gap between technical teams and product stakeholders, such as company decision-makers and end-users. By translating technical nuances into understandable terms, a Business Analyst ensures everyone is on the same page and working towards project success.
Accelerated time-to-market

Technically feasible, validated, and prioritized software requirements speed up the development process and bring software products to market faster. With BA, your team gets a clear project roadmap that accounts for potential challenges and opportunities while eliminating product reworks. At the same time, a Business Analyst ensures each feature provides real business value and meets user needs.
Rapid project scaling

As you grow and take on larger projects, a Business Analyst helps you scale processes and systems to meet new demands. They streamline expertise transfer, help grow teams and onboard new members, and ensure business value remains a top priority. With BA, you can rest assured you have resources and expertise needed to tackle larger and more complex projects without sacrificing quality.

Our business analysis process

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Product discovery

The discovery phase involves gathering product requirements, checking existing documentation, identifying stakeholders, and establishing project goals and objectives. A business analyst will work with product owners and stakeholders to shape product vision and validate the idea behind it. If you need to gain insights into user preferences, BA will conduct user research.
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Requirements analysis & prioritization

Before suggesting the best-fit solution, a Business Analyst will analyze and organize data to identify patterns, trends, and relationships. This includes developing use cases, user stories, and high-level SRS that define how the product works. We evaluate each implementation option based on business value and project needs, facilitating faster and easier decision-making.
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Outlining scope of work

Once all stakeholders agree upon the product vision, we develop more granular functional and non-functional requirements. A Business Analyst develops project scope and shares it with all stakeholders to ensure that final solution meets business and users’ needs.
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Requirements management

BA manages changes to the requirements throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring that all changes are communicated to stakeholders and impact on the project is thoroughly evaluated.
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Solution assessment & validation

After the product is developed, a Business Analyst will manage and drive the acceptance process to make sure the signed-off was implemented, and the product is ready to be released to end users. At this stage BA collaborates with product owners and stakeholders to assess the solution and identify whether it meets all business needs and expectations.

FAQ

Who is a business analyst?

A Business Analyst is a professional who works closely with stakeholders to analyze and identify business needs and requirements, and recommend solutions to improve existing business processes. It’s not just a hired professional, but a strategic partner who works directly with you, putting your business and product first.
At Blackthorn Vision, Business Analysts are dedicated to understanding the risks and opportunities associated with your product, ensuring it provides maximum value from your vision. They possess a combination of skills in business process analysis, project management, communication, and problem-solving.
What is the responsibility of a business analyst on a software development project?
The responsibilities of a Business Analyst vary depending on the specific project, industry, and organization. Some common responsibilities include:
- Analyzing business needs and requirements.
- Auditing the existing solutions and business processes.
- Validating product vision and feasibility.
- Defining project scope.
- Documenting requirements.
- Supervising testing and quality assurance activities.
- Facilitating cross-team and stakeholder communication.
When should I look for business analysis services?

If you’re looking to accelerate your business growth, achieve your objectives, develop a unique selling proposition, minimize potential risks, choose the right technology stack, then our business analysis services are ideal for you. Our Business Analysts possess the skills and experience required to help you take your business to the next level.
Does every team need a business analyst?

The need for a Business Analyst varies depending on the nature and complexity of a project. On a small or simple project, the responsibilities of a Business Analyst are fulfilled by a Project Manager or a developer with business analysis skills. However, having a Business Analyst on board significantly improves the chances of success on large-scale and complex projects. A BA ensures that your product aligns with the company’s strategic goals and mitigates risks that can lead to wasted time and budget.
What if I skip the product discovery phase?
Product discovery is key for understanding the problem your product is intended to solve, defining the target audience, identifying market trends, analyzing competition, and developing a clear vision and strategy for the software development project. Without the discovery phase, your IT project can face various challenges:
- Inadequate understanding of the target audience and their needs, which leads to failing to meet their expectations.
- Lack of clarity on project requirements, which results in missing out on the stakeholder’s needs.
- Limited vision for the product, resulting in a solution that doesn’t support improvement and scaling.
- Increased risk of project delays, scope creep, or failure.
Therefore, it’s crucial to invest time and effort into the product discovery phase to ensure your project has a solid foundation and a clear direction for success.

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Why Blackthorn Vision

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Dedication to client’s success

At BV, you’ll find a partner who cares about your success as much as you do. Our team becomes an extension of yours, working tirelessly to bring your vision to life. We don’t just write code – we think ahead, help to move faster, and prevent complications. We go above and beyond to ensure our clients are happy with the final results of their projects. That’s why our customer satisfaction score reaches 95% with an average engagement of 5+ years.

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Proven
expertise

We’ve been building up tech expertise since 2009. By following industry standards, we help businesses get the most out of software development services. Although we’ve earned the Microsoft Partnership, our expertise goes far beyond the Microsoft stack and covers diverse cutting-edge technologies. So, when you work with us, you can be confident that you are working with some of the best minds in the industry and natural problem-solvers. Our drive to share and multiply knowledge guides everything we do and lets us deliver top-notch solutions.

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Unique
talents

Our rigorous hiring process adheres to extremely high recruitment standards without any compromises. We evaluate dozens of engineers to fill senior positions, while many talented junior developers come from our Academy program with a 5% acceptance rate. Most of our engineers major or double major in math and computer science, and our management team has in-depth industry knowledge and experience. The pursuit of excellence earned us a reputation as a reliable employer that keeps retention at 87%, with 1/5 of employees engaged for 7+ years.

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Strong corporate
culture

We are passionate about what we do and take pride in our work. Our corporate culture is built around open communication, creative thinking, and collaboration. Day by day we maintain a thriving environment where everyone can openly share concerns, give regular updates, and exchange constructive feedback. As Ukrainians, we share a European mindset and sync with our clients’ values at all times.

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