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I still don't really know what a business analyst role truly entails. In my office they seem more like mini project managers w/o the management. They talk to in
by Gene_Parmesan 7y ago
I still don't really know what a business analyst role truly entails. In my office they seem more like mini project managers w/o the management. They talk to internal stakeholders a bunch, handle a lot of our UAT, and I guess do some reports stuff? One has moderate tech skills (but no programming) and the other is just really good at Excel.
I'm still not sure what their actual formal responsibilities are.
- kthejoker2 7y agoI mean, a business analyst should do just that: analyzes the business. It's usually their job to translate strategic areas of improvement in the business unit into specific outcomes. They ask questions to identify areas of improvement; translate those into functional (and sometimes technical) requirements for other areas (not just IT) to fulfill; and then coordinate the efforts to implement those requirements, potentially as PMs, product owners, Scrum masters, UAT leads, or just a SME. The best BAs (paraphrasing the data science JD) know more tech than the business and more business than the tech.