The recent meetings held by the IIBA in London have highlighted the existance of Business Analysts with 230 attending the most recent evening event. I have attended one previously and the numbers attending are clearly growing rapidly. I was very pleased to be able to talk with other BAs to here their views.
Alex gives his opinon of the evening here. The first talk was on Requirements. Personally I am skeptical that producing a list of Requirements is the right approach. Ian’s framework was indeed interesting although rather basic I thought, especially for someone who has studied the subject for many years. His final slide seemed to be a route map of discovery approaches and althought this idea seems to have potential the actual content was not convincing.
For the second talk Chris Potts’ ideas that IT Business Analysis is, or should be, part of Business Business Analysis made a lot of sense to me and validated some of my recent work where I facilitated a business team to help them explore what would assist them to do their team job better, interestingly only half the needs were IT based.
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