Career Path Of Business Analyst In IT Field
A Business Analyst in
the IT field has many varied directions among which to choose a career path.
The most direct would lead to a Lead Business Analyst position and then Project Manager whereby the incumbent manages projects through the entire lifecycle from inception to post-implementation including the management of business analysts’ system analysts quality assurance analysts and most likely development project managers or team leads.
That path would then lead to Program Management perhaps
PMO management or Product Manager and on to Directorship. In addition a good
Business Analyst may find they are heading toward a Customer Relationship
Manager position whereby they become the primary IT interface to a given
Business Unit (BU). This role most often leads to a position within the BU as a
Manager of Applications or a Process Management role.
Process Management opens
many jobs including process re-engineering quality program development and
large scale or enterprise process management programs such as ITIL or Six Sigma
initiatives. These roles will continue to proliferate as companies realize the
benefits of having a SME in process and quality.
And still many Business
Analysts find their understanding of business process entirely portable into
purely system related positions in the business side that are only peripherally
related to IT.
These of course may lead to quantitative roles manager roles or
operational roles such as supply chain logistics et cetera.Of central
importance to a successful Business Analyst is the interest in speaking to
people. Face to face verbal communication is paramount to support other tools
such as surveys and diagrams. Incumbents must be interested in understanding
not only the pieces that comprise a system but the people that comprise it and
the realities that embrace the system. Briefly the Business Analyst must
understand and not judge the what should be and the what is.
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