TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY
As someone who may be non-technical and have the role of a business analyst you may find yourself working outside of the information technology and engineering department and be more involved in business departments and responsible for identifying areas of improvement in process, organizational, people or informational related issues.
You may feel excited regarding the opportunities of being a non technical business analyst – but at the same time feel a little bit overwhelmed. After all, you don’t have a technical background like most of the other business analysts at your company. But don’t worry, you’re not alone. Many business analysts start out in non technical business analyst job roles and go on to be extremely successful.
Technical Business Analyst
I was reflecting on how impenetrable the role of the non technical business analyst can be to a newbie.
A non technical business analyst may find themselves working outside of the IT department and working closely or within business departments. The non technical business analyst may find themselves involved in process improvement projects looking to understand, refine and improve on the business operations.
A non technical business analyst may also over time find themselves working on strategy type projects or on projects that are doing business transformation or developing target operating models (TOM).
So skills required by a non technical business analyst tend to be more business focused, having skills and techniques in organizational design and process modelling.
There are plenty of roles and opportunities for a non technical business analyst and plenty of areas and tools and techniques to develop and work on to broaden the business analyst career path.
When you consider the wider the elements of non technical business analyst can work work various non technology related projects or change.
We used to have no single definition for a business analyst so it was open season for anyone to decide what the BA should do (and that hasn’t gone away completely!).