Suggest an editImprove this articleRefine the answer for “Who is responsible for requirements gathering in a project?”. Your changes go to moderation before they’re published.Approval requiredContentWhat you’re changing🇺🇸EN🇺🇦UAPreviewTitle (EN)Short answer (EN)The **Business Analyst (BA)** is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and formalizing requirements in a project - a bridge between the client and the development team. **Key point:** the main role belongs to the business analyst, who turns the client's wishes into concrete, verifiable tasks for the team.Shown above the full answer for quick recall.Answer (EN)ImageThe **Business Analyst (BA)** is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and formalizing requirements. Their task is to become a bridge between the client and the development team, so both sides speak the same language and understand what needs to be built in the same way. --- ### Role of the business analyst The business analyst finds out **what exactly the product must do**, and formulates it as clear, measurable requirements. They translate the client's business goals into technical tasks for developers. If the client says: *"Build a system so managers don't forget to call clients"*, the analyst turns this into specifics: - the system must store a list of clients, - automatically create reminders, - log calls and statuses. --- ### Main responsibilities 1. **Requirements gathering** Communicates with clients, users, and other stakeholders. Conducts interviews, workshops, analyzes current processes and documentation. The result is a list of the product's functions and constraints. 2. **Requirements analysis** Checks requirements for completeness, logical consistency, and feasibility. Sets priorities: what is needed right away, what can wait. Often uses diagrams, charts, user stories. 3. **Documentation** Creates a **BRD (Business Requirements Document)**, **SRS (Software Requirements Specification)**, or **User Stories** in Agile. These documents serve as the basis for architecture, test cases, and planning. 4. **Development support** During implementation, the analyst answers the team's questions, clarifies details, logs requirement changes. After testing, checks whether the result matches the client's expectations. --- ### Who else is involved Although the main responsibility lies with the business analyst, others take part in requirements gathering too: - **Product Owner (in Agile)** - decides which features matter more and forms the backlog. - **Project Manager** - makes sure requirements stay within budget and deadlines. - **Architect and tech lead** - assess technical feasibility. - **QA engineers** - clarify how requirements will be verified. --- ### Conclusion Requirements gathering is not just a conversation with the client, but a systematic process that the project's success depends on. The main role here belongs to the **business analyst**, who turns the client's wishes into concrete, verifiable tasks for the team.For the reviewerNote to the moderator (optional)Visible only to the moderator. Helps review go faster.