[Sigia-l] Frustrated Mid-Level IA job seeker

[andrew at friendlymanual.com]

Quoting Malahat Hosseini <mhosseini at sfu.ca>:

> pardon my ignorance, I don't see what the relationship between bussiness
> analyst and IA job is. Would anyone have the time for a little explanation?
> Is the bussiness analyst actually the user researcher?
>
> Just shows how much I have stayed too long in academia , I guess! :)

Hi Malahat,

I know that others will disagree, but most IA projects have an
immersion/analysis phase (or many of them) where BA skills are a plus.

BA methodologies may or may not be appropriate to this work.

It makes sense that the BA-analogue in the IA process may well be called a user
researcher in some places.

So to sum up my scatterisms: BAs are not IAs, but there are some BA skills that
may be applicable in IA work.

Cheers, Andrew

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