The Role of the Business Analyst De-Mystified
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As a qualified certified accountant and a personal development coach, on meeting Marie-Anne Rasé, I asked her what she did for a living, to which she replied: “I am a business analyst.” After processing this in my mind, several meetings later, I sought clarification from her with regards what a business analyst does, to check whether my `educated guess' was as accurate as I presumed. It wasn't! If professionals need to regularly engage in continuing professional development (CPD) or else they hastily become obsolete in the market place, what does that say about the rest of us? De-Mystifying the Role of a Business Analyst is required reading to give us an idea and not an `educated guess' of what `business analysis' / `business analyst' is as well as what is going on in the market place. The style makes it a simple, yet informative read, whereby you are no longer the `ignoramus' that you may have been at the beginning. You owe it to yourself to enjoy the quick read given that it is better to be a fool for a minute than one for a lifetime. Kevin Lyndon SUPER YOU! Success Coach www.superyouseries.co.uk
About the Author
Marie-Anne Rasé, Bsc (Hons), MBCS, CITP, has been a senior business analyst for several years. Her expertise lies in the London Market Insurance arena. She has worked in IT for over fifteen years, having held several IT and business roles throughout a typical project life cycle. Her greatest interest remains in business analysis where she is able to manifest clarity and structure from problems and chaos. As a mother of three, she has juggled life and work balance after completing a 4 year degree course in Business Information Systems. This course was one of the first introduced in universities in the early 1990s as a result of many IT project failures. It was felt that one of the main factors for this was a disjoint between the business and IT. Each area was lacking an appreciation and understanding of the other. A business analyst was seen as a hybrid role that would understand the language, strategy, needs and issues of both the business and IT. Marie-Anne has published several Internet articles. She has recently been a participant as a panellist member in the 2009 `Women in Technology' event sponsored by the British Computer Society (BCS) and Women In Technology (W-Tech). Her journey into a successful career in IT via her studies as a mature student was used as the case study. The event brought the spotlight on the various challenges and rewards of women in technology and mainly in terms of the lack of interest from our young girls to becoming the future female technologists that are so much in need. Her passion is to motivate young girls and women alike into becoming high achievers and reaching their potential. Her motto is, “If you believe in yourself, you can achieve anything.”