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[cojak]

OR

Are they going to ask you to sit down with some users and review business processes so as to allow either new system to be built of for existing systems and processes to be tweaked??

[SeekingIT]

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[northernladuk]

Here you go, by one of the most famous business analysts in the UK.

Gillian McKeith, business analysis

It's not even complete?? Where is the Ghost Poo? The one you know you squeezed out, you heard it hit the water and when you look there is not a sign of it. Woman doesn't know what she is talkin about!

[Troll]

Here you go, by one of the most famous business analysts in the UK.

Gillian McKeith, business analysis

That's a lot of teeth

[Doggy Styles]

Does anybody have any good starting places to read up on this topic - I might have 'blagged' a role!

Here you go, by one of the most famous business analysts in the UK.

Gillian McKeith, business analysis

[suityou01]

Not sure exactly what it is they do - but I find the ones with a nice pair of jublies add value to meetings... the wimmin that is

I was going to say I fit that criteria ... oh wimmin, yer right, damn...

[Troll]

Not sure exactly what it is they do - but I find the ones with a nice pair of jublies add value to meetings... the wimmin that is

[original PM]

Are they going to give you a lot of facts and figures about their business and ask you to analyse it to tell them where their business is going?

OR

Are they going to ask you to sit down with some users and review business processes so as to allow either new system to be built of for existing systems and processes to be tweaked??

[suityou01]

A step up. Well done.

[BA to the Stars]

Oh my god!! I despise this term. It must be the most overly used title in the IT industry? Every man and dog seems to be a Business Analyst. From what I see it covers everything from the secretary to the guys in the Ferrari that re-designs you entire corporate business model.

Does my nut right in.

[NotAllThere]

I can do that....I'm a crap programmer!

You'll fit in well.

The splitting of analysis from programming was carried out by the large consultancies, who found that people who could program were too clever by half, and no manager could understand what they were doing. this inevitably lead to the large consultancies promoting offshoring and outsourcing of the technical work - the stuff that actually requires skill. This lead to an overall decrease in quality of development, hence more work for the consultancies.

[Moscow Mule]

From what I see it covers everything from the secretary to the guys in the Ferrari that re-designs you entire corporate business model.

Sorry, the secretary is "Project Office Administrator" - not BA.

[northernladuk]

Oh my god!! I despise this term. It must be the most overly used title in the IT industry? Every man and dog seems to be a Business Analyst. From what I see it covers everything from the secretary to the guys in the Ferrari that re-designs you entire corporate business model.

Does my nut right in.

[Scary]

oh and somebody who can string a sentence together and talk to someone in the business without making them look at you in a 'Whatcha you talking about Willis?' face!

You'll need to learn to use buzzword bingo terms in a non-sarcastic manner whilst keeping a straight face.

[Moscow Mule]

oh and somebody who can string a sentence together and talk to someone in the business without making them look at you in a 'Whatcha you talking about Willis?' face!

Yes, you'll need a whole new dictionary of words with less than 3 syllables, users can be a little "slow" to understand anything technical so don't bother.

Just describe everything in terms of outcomes for the business, they don't give a tulip that you're speccing a change to boost the database performance by 30% - they just need to know they get to finish work 20 minutes earlier.