Monday, April 16, 2007

You Can't Do It Alone

What makes you a successful Business Analyst? Years of experience, education, technical background, communication skills? All of these come into play. However, we believe you are successful when the business seeks out your expertise, and the technical and quality teams look forward to working with you on their next project. In other words...it goes way beyond YOUR accomplishments.

Your #1 role is to support the members of the project team
and help them to be successful.

You organize and document what needs to be accomplished but you rely on the other members of the team to actually do the work. By chasing down answers, removing distractions, recognizing their contributions and providing the support they need, you encourage them to focus and leverage their areas of expertise. The result...less stress, more synergy and collaboration. And, you'll truly reap the benefits when it's the 11th hour and the team is struggling to make a deadline.

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