[Sigia-l] Bridging the gap

[Chris Chandler]

Listera wrote:

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> "David Bishop" wrote:

> Consider a bank...

Incidentally, Wall Street's preferred title for what you describe is not
an
IA but often a Business Analyst. They are preferred because BAs come from
the business/project management or programming/application architecture
realms, that are historically more familiar in that environment.

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The key being "historically" -- there are now a lot of IAs with heavy financial services experience.

What BA's lack, and where I've been able to pick up jobs that may have been advertised for BA's is the design component inherent in public facing web applications. Even functionality heavy intranet interfaces benefit tremendously from decent graphic design. And that's not even getting into the benefits of creating applications that don't require a week of training to use.

Of course, I also happen to come from a technical and project management type background, so your mileage may vary.

-cc