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

[Donna]

Business analysts around here collect user requirements, determine 
functionality, design interfaces, document requirements and create 
functional specifications.

More usually they do it on interactive systems than informational 
systems like websites.

Frequently, there are many relatively entry-level BA jobs. Most 
BAs I have worked with have no qualifications or training in 
requirements gathering and interface design. They just make it up 
as they go along (yes, my opinion, but one based on observation 
;)

Donna


On Mon Feb 27 20:46:44 PST 2006, Malahat Hosseini 
<mhosseini at sfu.ca> wrote:

> 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! :)
> 
> 
> malahat
> 
>