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Subject:RE: What is a Business Analyst? From:Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 Nov 2012 17:28:19 -0400
Like the Project Manager/Project Owner, the Business Analyst is hard to pin down, but suddenly everyone must have one!
We had one at my current job, a contractor who had three degrees yet could not spell, had minimal technical knowledge, and asked me one day "how do you know what goes on around here?" So I am a little skeptical sometimes...like I am when programmers call themselves engineers. To me, the BA is the old Systems Analyst who does not have to be quite as technical.
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