Hire Zafar Mahmood for discovery, requirements, process mapping, stakeholder engagement, user stories, UAT, Product Owner support, data migration and automation-readiness analysis. Suitable for contract work, defined BA work packages and short consulting assignments.
Bring in focused Business Analysis capability for a full workstream or a clearly defined piece of analysis. Engagements can be remote, hybrid or project based.
Clarify the problem, scope and user need before solution decisions are made.
Make current work visible, identify bottlenecks and design a better future state.
Translate business needs into delivery-ready backlog items and acceptance criteria.
Define what good looks like, organise validation and support users through change.
Support complex migration and integration work by mapping data, dependencies and business controls.
Assess whether a process should be automated before selecting a technology.
The following examples are taken from Zafar's professional CV. Projected figures are labelled as projected.
Re-engineered Street Cleansing and Tenancy Lifecycle processes using BPMN and As-Is/To-Be modelling, with a reported 40% reduction in processing times and projected annual savings of £1–2 million.
Delivered Business Analysis requirements for e-commerce and web projects, with the CV reporting an 18% improvement in project timelines and contribution to a £220k revenue uplift.
Identified 22,000 stuck cases through gap analysis at Principia Law / Auxillis, re-engineered workflows and supported UAT and CRM implementation.
Selected excerpts from recommendations supplied from Zafar's LinkedIn profile. Long recommendations are shortened without changing their meaning.
“Zafar has the ability to connect with stakeholders (customers) and capture their user needs/requirements and then works with the team through the following phases to ensure no rework is needed.”
“Zafar has been a great asset to our team. He has done an excellent job in a short time getting to understand our organization and our requirements. He has built strong relationships across the council and with other 3rd party consultants.”
“Zafar is a very experienced Business Analyst. He is knowledgeable in agile practices and all things digital transformation.”
“He has provided in-depth analysis of the business requirements and organized and chaired meetings with stakeholders to refine the requirements.”
“Excellent BA Consultant. He was a pivotal team member on my AZ contract, worked extremely hard and set the standard for others to aspire to. I would definitely employ Zafar again.”
“Zafar is a great mentor and always willing and ready to help other colleagues. He helps to direct people in the right path. He is approachable and always willing to share his insights.”
Recommendation wording is presented as supplied from LinkedIn screenshots. Titles are condensed for page readability.
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