What should be the goal of a Business Analyst?
The goal of a Business Analyst:
For the scope of the business being analyzed, coming up with a comprehensive, integrated understanding of essential (i.e., technology independent) functions (processes) and - especially - their essential interrelationships. Yourdon used to say that this is 98% of an analyst's required work.
This means rigorous as-is modeling, unless, of course, you are one who belives that as-is modeling is not necessary because top management is going to give you a to-be and that your job is just to implement.
Tony
Interesting question. The BABOK talks about how to measure a BA's performance.
Do you think it should be oriented towards one or more of these following things;
Curious,
Craig
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