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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Keeping the Business Specification Current
If the business specification stays at the business level, the ‘what’, and IT fills in the ‘how’ which might tweak the ‘what’, the business specification may need to change. How do you ensure that the business specification is kept current through design and implementation?