T. H. I. S. I would narrow it down to "nobody wants to design this stuff" - in most enterprise software shops (mine, for e.g..), the 'sexy' jobs are either pur

T. H. I. S. I would narrow it down to "nobody wants to design this stuff" - in most enterprise software shops (mine, for e.g..), the 'sexy' jobs are either purely on the technical side ("let's code!"), or purely on the business side (account/relationship management). Nobody wants to to the bridge stuff - the actual hard work of translating the business requirements into a half-way decent technical spec that the "let's code!" group can get cracking on. And this is true from both the buyer and seller's sides. I suppose that this is because in such places, people's contributions are 'objectively' evaluated by either revenue generated or LOC, and the poor business analyst has no such conveniently measurable metric attached to her.