Of all the challenges faced by a business analyst, Poor Requirements, Changing Requirements, Scope Creep, Changing Deliverables, Changing Expectations, I believe that poor requirements are probably the most severe issue that can be faced by a project. Continue reading ‘Dealing with Poor Requirements’
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Dealing with Poor Requirements
Published February 22, 2010 02 - Analysis Phase , 04 - Testing Phase , Business Analysis , Project Lifecycle , Techniques Leave a CommentTags: Change, Project Phases, Requirements, Role, Test
What does a Business Analyst do? – by Patrick Bowe
Published October 8, 2009 Business Analysis , Project Lifecycle 5 CommentsTags: Definition, Project Phases, Role, Skills
Something that I’ve actually been asked while pitching for work is “What does a Business Analyst actually do?”. While I won the work in that instance, I was never happy with the answer that I gave at the time. I managed to babble something out about how a BA was the bridge between IT and the business and while this is true, it hardly demonstrates what I could do to impact the bottom line of a project.
Since then I’ve relayed this story many times, only to discover that it wasn’t just my erstwhile interviewer that was unsure of what a Business Analyst actually does. Very often it’s not until a BA has delivered on a piece of work that the business that they are working for appreciates exactly what it was that the BA did for them, even then I suspect they would find it difficult to define exactly what it was that the BA did. Continue reading ‘What does a Business Analyst do? – by Patrick Bowe’
