PM and BA

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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I hear this question frequently. In fact I just watched a presentation on it last week.

The thinking goes something like this. The roles are close enough that "exceptional" people can do both roles inside the same project.

Another line of thinking goes the roles should be merged.

It makes zero sense in my humble opinion. There's simply too much work for either role to be done well as a combo. It's not that someone can't succeed in a combination role. I think they can, we've all been there once in our careers.

It's just that I don't think one could EXCEL in that type of combination role without offsetting roles or some delegation structure. What are your thoughts and ramblings about the PM and BA relationship?

Posted: Dec 30, 2015 10:20 PM

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Naomi Caietti Senior Project Manager | ePMO | Higher Education | Healthcare & IT| Linkedin.com/In/NaomiCaietti

Apr 06, 2017 11:03 AM

Replying to John Tieso

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In my view, the two roles can indeed by complementary. In small organizations, they are often combined, with the PM also serving as at least the integrator, and more usually as the BA as well. Even in a larger, more diverse project team, the PM has to know the principles of BA to evaluate the success of the effort, and the meaningful opportunities for integration.

True, it's an invaluable for PM to perform and know many of these skill sets as they move up their career ladder.

Posted: Apr 6, 2017 12:09 PM

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