Most Product Development Life Cycles tend to be either plan-based (waterfall) or iterative (agile). For the business analysis work, consider the choice of the life cycle:

• What sort of product development work are (or will) you be involved with?
• How would the choice of a development life cycle affect your business analysis process?
• What life cycle would best support your business analysis efforts?
• What differences would you expect in how requirements and solutions would be specified?

Also, share your experiences with different development life cycles.