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Subject:Re: From technical writing to business analysis? From:Martin Bosworth <martinhbosworth -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 May 2005 13:17:24 -0400
On 5/16/05, Mehta, Sona <mehtas -at- visa -dot- com> wrote:
>
> HI All,
> All this talk about developers and technical authors has made me think about my role here, in my current position I see myself slowly drifting from being a technical author (e.g. writing user manual and online help for a system) to being a business analyst (e.g. requirements gathering, gap analysis, helping with use cases etc). I was wondering if there are many of you out there who have had a similar transition. Do you think this is a natural progression? I was hoping to get some pros and cons of such a move.
> I must admit I do enjoy doing analysis stuff.
>
> Many thanks
> Sona
I'd be very interested in this as well. I've been called upon to do
the clinical business study of implementing the program I just did the
user docs for, and though I have experience in dealing with business
analyses on an individual client level, this is a whole new scale for
me. Any advice or insight from the pros would be welcome.
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