The Professionalization of Business Analysis

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As part of the annual Cutter Predicts series, a senior consultant says the role and related skill sets of business analysts will become more clearly defined, and the profession will continue to gain recognition.

This post is part of the annual "Cutter Predicts ..." series, compiled at the Cutter Consortium website.

I foresee a major push, globally, for Business Analysis to be recognized as a profession. This is an absolutely vital trend that will continue to build due to shifts in the demographics of software development.

As software development and maintenance becomes concentrated in some geographical areas and, as the Cloud and SaaS enable such software to be operated and maintained outside the business organization, there will be tremendous importance to formalizing the profession of Business Analysis.

Currently, the term Business Analysis can imply anything from requirements modeling to systems analysis to business architecture. This vagueness will be replaced by a much clearer understanding of the business analyst role and related skill sets in business and technology domains.

Standards, such as Skills Framework for Information Age (SFIA), International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) and Australian Institute of Business Analysis (AIBA) are increasingly having a positive impact on the understanding of this vital role of a BA.

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