https://modernanalyst.com RSS feeds for Business Analyst Community & Resources | Modern Analyst 60 https://modernanalyst.com/Resources/Articles/tabid/115/ID/1047/How-The-Business-Analyst-Was-Born.aspx#Comments 1 https://modernanalyst.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=115&ModuleID=572&ArticleID=1047 https://modernanalyst.com:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=1047&PortalID=0&TabID=115 https://modernanalyst.com/Resources/Articles/tabid/115/ID/1047/How-The-Business-Analyst-Was-Born.aspx A long time ago, before Business Analysts existed, it was believed that people in the business would be able to define their own requirements.  When a business department wanted to have a new piece of software, they would go to the IT department and the developers would ask them what they wanted. The business people would express this as best they could by writing down lists of things and having meetings to explain them, and then the IT department would build or buy whatever they seemed to want.   gmetheringham Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:10:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:1047