I've only had the luxury of working for one company that had BAs. But it was absolutely wonderful. They would communicate with the stakeholders and users and

I've only had the luxury of working for one company that had BAs. But it was absolutely wonderful. They would communicate with the stakeholders and users and other groups to flesh out the specification. And they would bring the specification to the developers almost fully formed with what we had to do. So from there we just were able to just engineer! Which is really what our specialty is. It was heavenly to me, because I find the most painful part of this career is trying to squeeze, schmooze, and cajole a coherent specifications out of stakeholders and users. I firmly believe a good project manager can be the difference between a projects success and failure.