Business Analyst (Was RE: Chopped Liver?)

[Eason, David]

A real business analyst is much in demand as a project management
professional (PMP). It is much more sophisticated than requirements
engineering and documentation. BA's have special skills with project
management, workflow processes, business modeling, and software such as
UML (uniform modeling language), use cases, entity-relationship diagrams
(ERDs) and relational database concepts, object-oriented technologies
(Rational Rose, object-oriented analysis, object-oriented design,
object-oriented programming), and the systems development lifecycle
(SDLC).

Documentation and Visio expertise won't even get you in the door.
However, having BA skills, such as requirements engineering, workflow
processing, process modeling, use-case writing, and some other
documentation-related tools can augment technical writing, and you can
legitimately tilt your resume in that direction--if you can
satisfactorily substantiate your accomplishments and achievements. 

The above is based on my having worked extensively and closely with BA's
and doing documentation within their framework of tasks.  

David Eason


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From: techwr-l-bounces+david.eason=lsi.com at lists.techwr-l.com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+david.eason=lsi.com at lists.techwr-l.com] On
Behalf Of Dori Green
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:27 PM
To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
Subject: RE: Chopped Liver?

Lauren wrote:

"Should I re-work my resume as more of a Business Analysis type?"

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...and here comes the traditional TW answer:  it depends.

Have you got a solid portfolio of work in which you functioned as a BA
to
help a company solve some serious problems and increase their
profitability?
By all means, feature it!

Do you love leading the charge and saving the day?  And having your head
be
the one to roll if it doesn't all come together?

Or do you relish designing and creating good, functional documents that
actually help people who are slogging their the daily slop, out of sight
and
smell of Upper Management?  If that's the case, downplay the BA stuff
and
stick to tech writing.

Dori Green

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