Object Oriented Analysis study guide will help you learn about a business analyst‘s role and their responsibilities. This is critical to defining the requirements of a project at its earliest stages, as well as a planning, defining and validating project scope. This study guide will prepare you for, and improve your understanding of the role of a business analyst. After studying this guide, you will be able to describe the object oriented (OO) approach to business analysis, use OO and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) early in a project Investigate and document business processes and systems behavior, use a step–by–step methodology for applying OO modeling techniques, and eliminate inconsistencies in your business requirements documentation by using OO techniques such as inheritance and encapsulation.