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Personally I like developing a good UI which is clean and easy to use, I also like interfacing it with business logic and interfacing that with storage etc. I just like doing things well.

I have never met a UI designer with no technical skills who's only job is designing UI. Our BAs used to do that at a previous bank, the one I worked with was ace. He had been involved in the bank's trading sector for years and had a good feel for what the user wanted, was happy to back down to technical constraints and had no problems being corrected.

People who do nothing apart from set up a UI are largely unrequired as far I can tell. I am guessing they sense that which is probably why they make such a huge deal over every small detail.

If you're developing a public facing website then design is crucial, as well as search engine optimisation and these are specialist skills.

There is no standard project, for a little on-site .Net team of 3 or 4 then great you might not need a BA but in a multi-national organisation such as a bank merger or bank split - then I'd not let my development resource make any business calls.

I've worked with great BAs and I've worked with glorified secretaries that add no value but think that taking notes from end-users consists of being a BA.

I've worked with great PMs (although not that many) and amazing developers but also complete monkeys.

You get good people, ok people and tulipe people in all walks of life, be it IT or working in Tesco.

You generally expect people to be ok, when they're great they make life easy and surprise you, when they're tulipe you just have to accept it and be brave enough to let them fail.