Measuring a Business Analyst's productivity
I am looking for a metric(s) that has been used to measure productivity of a Business Analyst role, mainly around Requirements work. I am not sure what else to say or ask about this, as I do not want to influence any responses, but I do need one(!). So, all suggestions are welcome.
Current Need Addressed
Thanks again for all the input. It would seem that 'Increase productivity by x%' is to be met in IT as "Decrease budgeted expenses by x%'.
My first thought on learning this was that my productivity is too difficult and costly to measure, so we drop back to cost reduction; but, I am not a management accountant, so who am I to say that saving money in IT does not improve over-all productivity when measured for the whole organization?
So, this current situation did not lead to a measurement for BA productivity in my company, but it might come around again, we'll see.
In the meantime, I continue to read and re-read Paul Strassman's writing on Information Economics and the value of IT. I recommend his work to all interested in this topic; he has a regular column in Baseline magazine these days.
David Wright
Member, IIBA
"The waterfall is not too long, the river is too wide."