Comments on: What is Business Analysis?

By: Craig Brown

Craig Brown — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:17:02 +0000

Hi Maria

Good luck with the blog. I hope it helps you achive your goal, and heps other analysts.

I recently posted half a dozen links to various people’s answer to this question. You might be interested in some of them.

They are here.

Regards
Craig

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:16:08 +0000

Thanks for useful information about business analysis. According to me business analyst must possess people skill as well apart from business skills. Because he has to maintain good relationship with clients as well as internal team.

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Jonathan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:57:08 +0000

Looks like you’ve got a nice start to your blog, here, Maria. I certainly agree wtih your point about the BA as a facilitator and translator, but companies that truly understand the value of the BA find that it can be much more: from helping a business owner prioritize need, to helping build and proof a business case to helping a stakeholder define the problem through root cause analysis, there are many areas where a Business Analyst can add value.

Business Analysis is an exciting and satisfying profession in that it requires a mix of IT and systems knowledge with a solid business acumen and interpersonal skills.

It is really as much an art as a science.

I’ve recently begun a blog of my own on business analysis and systems development to post knowledge as I gather it, and to share some of what I’ve learned as a BA.

I’ll look forward to your future posts on the topic.

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IA Tools: Understanding your users through personas « Matt’s Musings — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:21:39 +0000

[…] been given the thumbs-up by the people they represent the next step is to show them to the Business Analysts (BAs) on the project so they can use them as actors in developing their use cases. This will give […]

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magia3e — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:27:49 +0000

As an analyst working primarily in the area of the web I find, a lot of the time, that the business process cuts against how the users want to work. This is often because The Corporate Way of doing things, Policy, etc, makes certain demands that actually impedes workers from doing things easily or effectively.

How, as a business analyst, do you reconcile these issues and what methodology can you rely upon to assess and deliver on the situation?

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rjk — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:44:24 +0000

Thanks. Keep going…