Comments on Better Projects: The Dirty Harry Approach to Requirements

PMs and BAs can sit in both business and IT.

2008-04-28T22:22:00.000+10:00
PMs and BAs can sit in both business and IT.

Some are palced in a third place; internal consulting departments.

Whereever we are placed in an organisation it influences our view of the work and what "done" looks like.

Wherever you are you face different political challenges to delivering true value.

That's a big challenge for many of us and one we try to address here in sharing our writings.

Thanks for the contribution Shoe!

Until IT views BA’s as more then over glorified Te...

2008-04-17T00:43:00.000+10:00

Until IT views BA’s as more then over glorified Tech Writers or PR firm there will always be a separation.

In IT, a BA grows up and become a PM or a Developer, they do not even see a lead BA Role as equal to a Tech Lead, Nor do they think there should be a Manager of BA’s.

IT has a myopic view of the BA because most of them use to develop software just fine without a BA “x” number of years ago so now BA’s are a necessary evil (that is not understood).

Most IT organization I have dealt with has been hostile to the BA and the Business has been apathetic. In most of my past I had to fight Developers, Tech leads and Project Managers and even Business, just to do the basics of my job.

Most IT group suffer from what I call is the Doctor Ego but with more deaths than saved life’s. The Statement is a cry for respect not separation. Join the BA Rights Movement and Fight :) I think we are to start singing “we are not going to take it...”

The story told in the Dirty Harry article is famil...

2008-04-13T09:12:00.000+10:00

The story told in the Dirty Harry article is familiar to me as I am certain it is to many. I did take note of one thing in the article:

"By the way, I really do like IT folks. It's just that sometimes I don't like the way they do things."

To me, The fact that BAs and PMs see themselves as separate from IT is the biggest problem we have with projects. I'm sure this is not uncommon in the industry but it really does seem to be a key issue to be aware of.

Janet