[Sigia-l] IAs vs BAs

[Juan Ruiz]

Mathew, your blog regarding IAs and BAs is good. It does clarify some of
the differences between IAs and BAs, especially when you say that BAs
concentrate on business needs, and IAs concentrate on information needs.


The concept though, bottoms down to what the organization is expecting
from the employee (either BA or IA). An organization would like to have
a BA that can do IA. I assume they will have more preference for a BA
role because this role has existed longer than the IAs, more
documentation exists on their deliverables, and their business knowledge
helps them to be closer to PM methodologies. I see a lot of job postings
for WEB BAs or BAs who have experience with Wireframes and UCD. Isn't
that what the IA should do?

As Andrew said, as an IA we have to wear many hats (perform different
duties such as IA/BA/PM/UCD...), but is there a way that I can
differentiate my documentation from a Web BA? 

I found that in order to get the 'buy-in' from my stakeholders, I have
to convert my IA research and documents into BA document types, which
they are familiar with.

Thanks for your responses, I feel like soon I should be able to defend
my case between IAs and BAs.


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Boyd [mailto:facibus at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 3:44 PM
To: Juan Ruiz
Cc: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] IAs vs BAs

On 6/19/07, Juan Ruiz <juan.ruiz at ceo.syd.catholic.edu.au> wrote:
> Where do we draw the line? I find that because BAs look more into the
> business side of things and their work is more aligned to Project
> Management methodologies, their opinions weight more than from an IA.

Juan,

the other threads on this topic (and similar) usually ended, after
much bloodshed, with the following conclusions:
1. It all depends - there is no one set of rules for what constitutes
IA/BA/PM/CM/Designer/designer/UCD/UXD.
2. The labels are arbitrary: I have myself performed what others might
term IA tasks today, as well as BA/PM/BPM/BPI/UXD/Big D Designer ones
- happy to discuss specific instances. And it's not even 4PM here yet
:)

Cheers, Andrew
---
Andrew Boyd
http://facibusreviews.com


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