Comments on: Business Analyst Job Description

By: Bassam

Bassam — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:00:24 +0000

dear,

just to check where I can study BA as per your recommendation.

I need some trustworthy institute or online training accredited and certified.

By: gyanaknowledge

gyanaknowledge — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:20:07 +0000

@ Schaffner, It was really great work.
@Jonathan, Schaffner, Can you please let me know what is the career scope of a BA? Will a BA play long game or his career graph becomes stagnant after some time?

By: Business Presentation

Business Presentation — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:44:03 +0000

Your blog is so informative … keep up the good work!!!!

By: Job Descriptions

Job Descriptions — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:22:05 +0000

Jonathan the Job Description is very good, Though outdated. I am a BA, recently i went for an interview there i as asked to do social media service. My recent post Finance Job Descriptions

By: don

don — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:44:43 +0000

Great post Jonathan. If you read a job description today for a business analyst, there will be much more requirements then you list. In fact, many companies are now looking for BAs to be able to code. I wonder if companies will still have such high expectations when the market turns around.

By: Martin L. Shoemaker

Martin L. Shoemaker — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:52:12 +0000

Thanks, Jonathan! This helps a lot with a question I've been asking this week: what, if anything, is the difference between Business Analyst and Requirements Analyst. Your description makes them look a lot alike. I find that's one major subset of the answers I got. The other subset was that BA is whole business, while RA is software-specific. But Weigers (for one) says the terms are used synonymously most of the time.

I need to write up a job description for an analyst, and this is a huge help. Thanks!

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Job Title: Business Analyst « IT150 @ Carlow — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:38:21 +0000

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By: James

James — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:00:10 +0000

Jonathan,

Thank you for a description of what a BA role is.

Personally I can see point three taken too literally:

“Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), iii. Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs)”

with BA’s thinking it is their responsibility to create the GUI and interface designs.

What I think is lacking in the definition is the distinction between finding out what is required and designing how that is implemented and which part of that is in the role/responsibilities of the BA and which is not.

Do you think the role of the BA is to design “HOW” a system will do what it does?

I find the “HOW” creeps in whenever the requirements take the form “The System shall…” rather than “It is required that …”.

What do you think ?

Rgs,James.

BTW- I posted this comment to Mike’s site too, since Im *very* interested in resposnes.

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By: Craig Brown

Craig Brown — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:42:40 +0000

Jonathan A while ago I surveyed BA job descriptions and broke down the cmpetencies they were looking for. There is a pie graph at the other end of this link. (You'll need to scroll down)