Friday, November 26, 2004

Top 10 skills of a business analyst

by Kathleen Barret, a senior business consultant at BMO Financial Group.

1. Analytical or systems thinking - being able to see how things work together.

2. Client relationship management

3. Coaching and mentoring - driving out shared skills and learning from peers

4. Consensus and agreement building

5. Change leadership

6. Modeling - including data and process modeling and functional design

7. Facilitation or requirements solicitation - the ability to pull together experts to get the right information from them.

8. Professional knowledge - an understanding of the business

9. Requirements planning and management

10. Verbal and written communications

If you want to be a business analyst, take a look at yourself and where you stand on these things and address any gaps and figure out what you have to do to fill in your experience.

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