{"id":619,"date":"2024-07-31T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T09:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/?p=619"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T09:56:33","slug":"business-analysts-benefit-from-domain-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/2024\/07\/31\/business-analysts-benefit-from-domain-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Business analysts benefit from domain experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Business analyst job adverts should not require domain expertise”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Really?<\/strong> Who are you, GE, or some other multinational company? First some aerospace, then a bit of healthcare, and finally some defense contracting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get real. Domain expertise does matter, a whole lot, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not that BA skills aren’t transferable, but should your new client be footing the bill for your learning curve? Maybe, but not by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learnt this the hard way\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six months after getting my business analysis qualification, I set up a landing page and bought Google ads for “business analysis services.” The first client was an events company; the next was an international aid agency. Reality hit when I was commissioned by a small firm of Chartered Surveyors to “analyse their business.” The truth was, I didn’t know their industry, the regulations and marketplace, or the business of selling surveys. I was a software engineer previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What should I do? Seriously? Compile a RACI matrix of stakeholders and commence interviews?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did a terrible job, and it was a terrible experience. IIRC, I was too embarrassed to send them a bill for my time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s humbling to encounter the limits of professional practice. My BA training largely ignored the relevance of domain expertise, and I think the training industry is failing in this area. A good “generalised BA” isn’t necessarily a good hire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My domain expertise is Software Development, and that is where I happily remain. BAs who have never developed software would do well to remember the limits of their professional practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Business analyst job adverts should not require domain expertise” Really? Who are you, GE, or some other multinational company? First some aerospace, then a bit of healthcare, and finally some defense contracting. Let’s get real. Domain expertise does matter, a whole lot, actually. It’s not that BA skills aren’t transferable, but should your new client […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-analysis","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}