Elevating the Role of the Business Analyst
by David Heidt
This article is the first in a series discussing how progressive organizations are moving away from today’s traditional requirements approaches to a business specification-centric approach.
Over the last several years the business analyst role has garnered increased recognition within the marketplace. The push towards business agility, increased compliance and regulatory requirements, exorbitantly high IT costs, outsourcing and new technology enablers are the drivers behind organizations taking a closer look at their business analysis competency.
This recent surge of marketplace activity around business analysis methods, techniques, training, bodies of knowledge and professional certifications are all part of this wave of interest.
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Solutions is the easy part....
May Jim and David, ... a few thoughts.
(1)Solutions are a dime a dozen, it is figuring out the problem(s) that is the hard part. It is more important for a Business Analyst to be expert in the "what", not the "how".
(2)Business Analysts, in fact, should be wary of depending on their own knowledge of a company's current systems and environment, as I have seen that overly influence the direction of a project and miss opportunities that can't be seen if you have "current environment" blinders on.
(3) Business Specifications, yes. Document the business process, and the information it uses/produces, and you can literally generate Business Requirement statements. The key thing is, then, that Business Requirements change only if the business changes its process, i.e. the way it works... looking forward to seeing what your Business Speccifications look like.
David Wright
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle