How to Foster Business Analyst Mindset in Your Organization

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Any organization that changes and evolves performs business analysis. How do you develop your business analysis function? How do you support the professional growth of practitioners who play a vital role in enabling successful change?

Here are a few questions you can start with to assess the business analysis maturity in your company:

• Do you have a high staff turnover among business analysts?
• Do your major projects start and finish with the same lead business analyst, or is it typical to have a few people take over from each other before the project is completed?
• Is there a perception among business stakeholders that technology groups do not understand them?
• Is there a perception among technology groups that business does not articulate their requirements well, and that there are too many ambiguities?
• Is there a general feeling of frustration that requirements workshops are ineffective and do not progress fast enough?
• Is requirements quality often cited as a reason for project failure?