In Europe at least, it's still alive in government projects. Governments are often paying companies to develop large system for them, and system analysts are th

In Europe at least, it's still alive in government projects. Governments are often paying companies to develop large system for them, and system analysts are the people who describe requirements in detail so that the developer company knows what to build, and the government knows if the system delivered meets the requirements or not. System analysts are hired on both the government and the software company sides. The job is basically half creating the requirements, half quasi-lawyering in meetings on whether the system meets/doesn't meet the requirements described in documentation. Also, lots of money is at stake from the PoV of the development company, so these meetings are often quite adversarial. Overall, not the most pleasant job, unless you love to publicly prove to your opponents that they're lying scumm :)