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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Documentation in sync
Sorry Scott but I disagree with the basic Agile principles. The first thing you must ask you self is why should the documentation be out of sync? That indicates one thing only, and that is the specification was wrong in the first palce.
You should not be discovering problems with the design during the development phase. I've witness Agile development in action and I can report that it's just as likely to deliver redundant fucntionality as any other methodology.
The tried and tested method in my opinion is to do rigorous design up front and deliver that to the development team so they have a clear understanding of the business need and can build the right tool for the job.