The hiring world of the future will rely heavily on acronym based scanning systems. The more acronyms you collect, the better chance you have of doors opening.

John Smith ITIL, CBAP, PMP will have a better chance of having his resume plucked from the pile and presented to a hiring manager, than a blankly suffixed Robert Jones. 

Tony,

Its like our profession is made overly complicated - and in the process, we forget some key inputs into the BA process. Data and its inter-relationship is one, which is SO obvious, yet its ignored in most BA deliverables. Maybe people dont like DATA, but when you draw a process you have to indicate the Data.

Just do a search of BPMN diagrams and you can count on one hand the number of diagrams that show data. The UML activity diagrams are no different, you hardly see Object Flows.

So unless the data flow is OBVIOUS in the diagrams then most process/activity  diagrams are OK then. However, in my experience not having the DATA and its interelationships is a MAJOR flaw.

But then again, its just me!

warm regards,

K

Ps. May-haps we've become a Tool-centric group that love using tools without any real thought behind whats really presented. The book Franck Frommer titled  How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid, is perhaps a consideration. ( I have not read the book but I've seen similar arguments proffered by others)