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

[Jonathan Baker-bates]

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> andrew at friendlymanual.com
> Sent: 28 February 2006 05:58
> To: Malahat Hosseini
> Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Frustrated Mid-Level IA job seeker
> 
> 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?
> >
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> 
> So to sum up my scatterisms: BAs are not IAs, but there are 
> some BA skills that may be applicable in IA work.

I can agree with this, mainly because I too came into IA from what was
essentially three years of BA experience.

The way I see it, the business analyst is exploring and designing
processes which are in the end the user experience. I would not say that
the skill sets overlap so much as that they are portable from one to the
other.

Jonathan