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  • Mulder
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    Office Space great film.

    Business Analysis can be very misunderstood, the BA team abused, or they can be well utilised.
    You can get good BAs and bad BAs.

    Given its not an unusual occurrence when I head into a client that business have had a bad experience with projects, then I guess poor use of BAs/poor BAs/even poor project management is not unusual. Thankfully after my recent projects the end users have complimented that the project experience has been a lot better.

    BAs can be useless or useful, just like architects, PMs, etc can be useful or useless.

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  • stek
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    PC Load Letter

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by Jog On View Post
    Don't forget architects as well - brain the size of a planet and all that...

    I like being a BA - on same rate as a PM with about 25% of the workload and stress
    BA / Architect / PM? Write the theme tune, sing the theme tune.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

    FTFY

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  • Jog On
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    remember the human tower analogy, as CEO you look down and see smiling faces, the people at the bottom look up & see a-holes standing on their shoulders. Its the same with BAs & developers , its just luck who looks down or up.
    Don't forget architects as well - brain the size of a planet and all that...

    I like being a BA - on same rate as a PM with about 25% of the workload and stress

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post


    He said BA Badass not BA Lardass.

    HTH.

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    and point proven... Suity understood I was returning the compliment.

    Your BA's may well do that, ours make things work and channel the stupidity towards something useful. As my example showed, the software team have been in control up until now (for 10 years), they made a mess, we will make help them clean it up. They won't thank us for it but the VP will when everything works.

    remember the human tower analogy, as CEO you look down and see smiling faces, the people at the bottom look up & see a-holes standing on their shoulders. Its the same with BAs & developers , its just luck who looks down or up.
    WTF are you talking about?

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    Other way round

    Which part of "Takes the software requirements from the customers to the developers" was difficult to understand?
    and point proven... Suity understood I was returning the compliment.

    Your BA's may well do that, ours make things work and channel the stupidity towards something useful. As my example showed, the software team have been in control up until now (for 10 years), they made a mess, we will make help them clean it up. They won't thank us for it but the VP will when everything works.

    remember the human tower analogy, as CEO you look down and see smiling faces, the people at the bottom look up & see a-holes standing on their shoulders. Its the same with BAs & developers , its just luck who looks down or up.

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    Other way round

    Which part of "Takes the software requirements from the customers to the developers" was difficult to understand?
    What I was thinking.

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    so the Business Analysts are the two people interviewing the 'Software development manager'?
    Other way round

    Which part of "Takes the software requirements from the customers to the developers" was difficult to understand?

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    so the Business Analysts are the two people interviewing the 'Software development manager'?

    that's pretty much how it normally plays out.

    this morning on an EMEA wide tool with hundreds of users and soon to have thousands the security team have mixed up the user creation. I only requested them a few weeks ago. Apparently the security team don't know how to create users and the Team that developed the tool never told them how or documented it.

    So I find someone with access (security are still in bed in the US) but he can only fix part of it.



    Looks like BA Badass needs to sort it out. Its like peeling dog poo.


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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by garethevans1986 View Post
    lol, what film is that from?
    office space

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  • vetran
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    oh no, just read my post, I have suity - itus....

    sniffle.

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  • garethevans1986
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    lol, what film is that from?

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  • vetran
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    so the Business Analysts are the two people interviewing the 'Software development manager'?

    that's pretty much how it normally plays out.

    this morning on an EMEA wide tool with hundreds of users and soon to have thousands the security team have mixed up the user creation. I only requested them a few weeks ago. Apparently the security team don't know how to create users and the Team that developed the tool never told them how or documented it.

    So I find someone with access (security are still in bed in the US) but he can only fix part of it.



    Looks like BA Badass needs to sort it out. Its like peeling dog poo.

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