Business Analyst

Hi all,
   I am doing my masters dissertation on " The impact of visual composer upon Business requirements gathering and evaluating the ability of Netweaver suite of tools will help the Business analyst role."
    Can any one help me regarding this, by giving any information or resources.
Thanks in advance
regards
prudhvi

Hi,
No-one seems to have picked this up and so I'll offer my views.
You need two attributes to be a Business Analyst.
1. Relevant experience - which you have
2. Training in the concepts and principles of Business Analysis.
I would recommend that you focus on learning the concepts and principles of Business Analysis. You can self-teach the concepts, but the learning the principles is harder and I would recommend going on a course for that. There are many around and - surprise, surprise! - my company offers an excellent one called Fundamentals of Business Analysis geared at people just like you. In four days you learn about being a Business Analysis from project inception through requirements capture, process and data models to managing your analysis products through to delivery. Its a course geared at making you an active Business Analyst rather than a specialist in any one methodology (they all cover the same ground, and are variations on the basic BA themes).
There are BA qualifications but - as a practicing BA myself - I have never needed them. This is an emerging profession and standards are not rigorously applied. Experience and an understanding of the concepts and principles should be enough to get you to your next role as a (Senior?) Business Analyst. And in my experience of recruiting BAs having the experience, theory and principles will put you in the top 5% of analysts immediately.
Please visit www.ba-solutions.co.uk for more info and/or contact me should you wish to discuss further.
Kind regards,
Guy

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