# Bridging the Gap between Business Stakeholders and Engineering Teams: A Business Analyst's Playbook...

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Author: Shelby Boyle

Published: 2025-05-30T06:49:43Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

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Topics: [Support](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/support.md>), [Data Science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-science.md>), [jira](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jira.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [bridging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bridging.md>), [business-analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-analytics.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [communication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communication.md>), [data-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-science.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [practical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/practical.md>), [product-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-development.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>), [ticketing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ticketing.md>)

## AI overview

A business analyst playbook explains how to translate stakeholder needs into product solutions. It covers clarifying problems and impacts, using JIRA to support engineering work, and applying data science models and dashboards to analyze variables, customer behavior, revenue, and conversions.

## Source excerpt

Bridging the Gap between Business Stakeholders and Engineering Teams: A Business Analyst's Playbook to Creating Quality Product SolutionsDoes your bridge look like this?! Tsingy Bemaraha National Park, Madagascar (my own photo August 2024) In today's evolving technology world, communication and collaboration are vital between business and engineering teams to deliver functional, scalable solutions. The Business Analyst (BA) is the problem-solver who ensures that business needs are translated into practical products to fuel powerful strategic decisions. What does this process look like? This is a detailed playbook BAs can follow to guide from stakeholder need to fully materialized product. 1. Meet with Stakeholders on Problem and the Impact The first step in solving any business problem is understanding the problem itself. What is the problem? What would be the desired outcome? What is the business impact of the problem? What would be the business impact of a possible solution? Ask these questions of your stakeholders and encourage them to distill the problem to its core. Meeting with stakeholders guarantees no details are left out: not just what may be documented, but what may not be documented as the problem. Using an engineering ticketing system like JIRA can facilitate this initial step. The better scoped the problem is, the sooner you can start working on analytic solutions. These initial conversations set the foundation for all subsequent steps. It makes your work easier too! 2. Define the Problem and Impact After initial stakeholder conversations, the BA defines the core problem, the present consequences of not having a solution, and the impact of constructing a product solution. These are some examples of this step: We need to understand variable likeness e.g. finding types of words associated with a holiday event or grouping customers based on shopping behavior. Without knowing this, we cannot derive target strategies for success or resolve weakness. Cue the