What Does an Expert Business Analyst Look Like?
What does it mean to be an expert business analyst? An expert business analyst is one who can easily handle 80% of the tasks and situations that arise on the job, and whose depth of knowledge will effectively find a manageable solution for the other 20% of tasks and situations that arise on the job. Your answer to issues on the job should be “Not a problem. I will implement it right away, 80% of the time, and Give me a couple of hours, and I will have an answer for you, the other 20% of the time”. Do you fit in with this description? If your current daily tasks and challenges in business analysis do not lie comfortably within your circle of business and technical competence, you should focus on increasing your ability to solve those problems until it becomes as easy as pie. Then, ask for more money and more responsibility. Ask yourself, if something suddenly went horribly wrong on your current project, would you have enough depth and breadth of knowledge to quickly find the solution to
