Question1: What are the skills and knowledge that a good systems analyst requires?
Ans1: The skills and knowledge about system analyst is shown below:
>Generally A person who can provide bridge between information systems user and developers is called system analyst.
>System Analyst should have well understands about system’ technical aspects and can assess their knowledge and skills for implementing user requirement.
>System Analyst should have very good interpersonal skills like, they should listen well and ask inquiring questions in an simplest manner.
>System Analyst Should have interpersonal skills and knowledge: That means he should relate with client idea for attracting them and solving their problem.
> System Analyst Should have Political skills and knowledge: That means he should issues of power, organizational culture, change and conflict
. > System Analyst Should have Systems development task skills: In this tasks he follow the Systems development life cycle process for acquire knowledge and skills like analyze planned, Alternative analysis, design, development like acquire needed thing for creation of system, implement new system from the old system and maintenance of system like fixing errors .
>System Analyst should have Technology skills: That means he should good knowledge and skills about identify and implement system solutions, regrading their document and review processes and procedures, ability to report on strategic direction of organization, knowledge of relation database , data warehousing, operating system. In shortly System Analyst have good knowledge and skills about the hardware, software of information systems.
> System Analyst should have Business task knowledge: That means he should well knowledge about project management and broad project practices in different functional areas in the organization.
Question2: How do you plan to develop those skills?
Ans: (a) Firstly, awarding various techniques and data sources as per requirement. Like we obtain information about exiting system and getting interview, observation, questioners to the user.
(b) We can watch users works and get interview hourly, weekly as per needed.
(c)We may also create congenital questionnaires for getting hidden information.
(d) We can planned and tracked the develop skills for process of system like,
> committing to perform
> planning performance
>Disciplined performance
> Tracking performance
> Verifying performance
(e) After well planned and tracked the skills of system, we may defining a standard process then try to control the quantitatively for establishing quality of goals, achieving goals, managing performance.
[* This whole answer I referred from Information System A Management Approach 3rd Edition by Steven R. Gordon and Judith R. Gordon From page no314-323, And *EXPLORING THE SYSTEMS ANALYST SKILL SET: Cynthia Lerouge, Sandra Newton,J Ellis Blanton. The Journal of Computer Information Systems.
Stillwater: Spring 2005 Vol.45, Iss. 3; pg. 12, 12 pgs]
Ans 3: I had developed a dummy system about ON LINE RAILWAY RESERVATION SYSTEM during my last semester of my under graduation. Before developing system I visited railway station and get day to day information about the Reservation design, Cancellation design, Security design and Train-Routing design as Railway staff requirements. After analysis information about their system, then I planning to make creation of detailed specifications for the proposed system to developed. But I had some problem to propos system that I could not find and fixing problem like it totally time consuming. If I had planned before developing system I could have simplified the possibility of error occurrences or I could have fixed those bugs in a shortly time period. So this type of problem can be avoided if you give me theoretical and practical exposure of how to develop better system and clear understanding of current market and strategies.
