Personal accountability is an important skill for every business analyst to have because it ensures that their tasks are completed on time and to the expected quality standards.
Personal accountability helps establish trustworthiness by guaranteeing that the business analysis work meet the needs of the business.
Personal accountability includes successfully planning the business analysis work to achieve the enterprise’s goals and objectives, and ensure that they deliver on the required value.
It involves following up on leads and loose ends to fully satisfy the stakeholder’s needs.
Following through on and fully completing the business analysis tasks produces complete, accurate, and relevant solutions which should fulfill the business need.
The business analysts should also take responsibility for identifying risks and issues.
They also ensure that the decision makers have the right information needed to assess the solution’s impact.
There are some measures of effective personal accountability which include the following:
- Ensure that the work effort is planned and easily communicated to the stakeholders.
- Ensure that the work is completed as planned or re-planned with logic and prior notice.
- The position of both planned and unplanned business analysis work is known.
- The stakeholders should discern that the business analyst’s work is organized.
- The risks and issues of the change is recognized and suitably acted on.
- That completely traceable requirements are delivered on time, and ensure that the stakeholder needs are met.