tutudesz:

Meaning a project manager can also be employed in place of a business analyst
Like I said must companies want someone that can take on multiple roles, instead of employing more workers

BeboNGN:


If you're a business analyst, you can Transition into PM.

BeboNGN:


If you're a business analyst, you can Transition into PM.

PM doing BA works needs to know BA processes, and it seems like a downgrade to me.

tutudesz:

Just employ both PM and BA

Tats:


Yes. a company needs both.

One cannot fully do the job of the other but if you have both skills and holding one of either roles, you will do well.

tutudesz:

Both skills with little pay Nigeria companies will love to employ such individual

Tats:


Not so here in the UK. They have to employ both and pay them well.

Vipro:
Is Business Analysis proffesional and relevant?
Is it a good career to start with?

blank:


Get a professional designation like Cbab. You can add PMP and Agile/Scrum. Find your way out of Nigeria and earn good money.

Any degree you have will be good as a start.

BeboNGN:


Pestel or whatever you mention are just basics, and it shows you don't understand what you're dabbling into. Seems you're mixing business analysis with business administration. For me to straighten the road for you; the least qualifications for a business analyst is Bsc in computer science, not any form of business administration.

Nigeria HR have distorted everything! Most MNCs in Nigeria and anywhere in the World require you to have a degree in computer science for you to be considered.

Business analyst is just a gateway between technology and business. Not necessarily what you're insinuating.


Business analyst that undergo an MBA program may be trying to move into the business field/managerial role fully and jettison the tag business analyst.

If you want to understand what most role are and the qualifications required for it. You've to look beyond the job description being peddled around in the Nigeria job market, because most HR are not well trained to understand the differences in those roles.

This should not even be a subject of discuss if you're working with an MNCs or Tech company because you will understand better.

Tats:
Absolutely. Nearly all mid to large scale IT projects need BAs. who else will gather and document Business requirements for the IT team to deliver? Your communication skills must be top notch and you should be able to conduct workshops for Stakeholders.

If you have functional knowledge of a particular area, then it helps a lot. Like if you are an accountant and then work as a BA on a finance project. Ensure that you do CBAP and add agile to it. Highly sought-after BAs doing contracting earn up to £750 per day here in the UK and Average is about £400 to £550 per day. For Permanent positions, average is about £50k. Loads of Nigerians in the UK and US are Business Analysts earning such amounts.

TheGift:
The world is moving from Business Analysis to Business Analytics due to the infiuence of Big Data, AI & Machine Learning. That would be
more relevant in the coming years.

Better to do an MBA with a specialization as business analysis is a very small part of that.

Avoid picking courses because they sound nice. See if they fit with your innate talent , passion and what the market is demanding.

I wish you all the best

LegitBoyy:


I have been looking to switch to a BA role. Where do you think i can start from given that my background is law ? i really want to acquire a Business Analyst skill before i complete my Masters degree so i can look for practical experience during my 2years post study work visa. Is business analysis entirely different from business analytics? I know the switch is really not going to be easy but i am ready to make the sacrifice.

Acidosis:


The question you should be asking is who is a business analyst? The man who studied business analysis or the one who studied business analytics? Ignore the professional jargon and focus on the rudiments of the programme. I can hire anybody and call it whatever.

I'm not mixing business analysis with business administration by the way. But to set the record straight, to work in the business analysis field, you do not need a degree in computer science. That's where business analytics come in. The analytics is about the application of tools, data, programming language. The analysis is self-explanatory.

I don't think we should be debating this.

TheGift:
The world is moving from Business Analysis to Business Analytics due to the infiuence of Big Data, AI & Machine Learning. That would be
more relevant in the coming years.

Better to do an MBA with a specialization as business analysis is a very small part of that.

Avoid picking courses because they sound nice. See if they fit with your innate talent , passion and what the market is demanding.

I wish you all the best

Tats:


While it is correct that the world is moving to data analytics due to Big data, AI. etc, BA work does not have a direct comparison with Business Analytics. As long as we continue to build systems or apps, BA work will still be relevant. It is from systems and apps that you get the data which needs to be analysed. Even data analytics projects have BAs.

TheGift:
You are right. However I am talking about the value one can get from the chosen role.

Even before analytics became a thing, the analysts role is a lower level role, especially within the consulting structure. And their value is being eroded by the capacity of AI to perform some of the routine and repetitive tasks they were previously needed to do.

“Analyst” sounds nice to the inexperienced (<3 years) but in a world where analytical skills are becoming a minimum requirement and to those with deep and wide work experience, “analysts” are seen as junior positions performing routine tasks like imputing data into a spreadsheet.

Even a very smart graduate or undergraduate should be able to perform the tasks of an analyst. So how much value do you think an analyst will be able to command in a few years as compared to someone who uses analytics to add value to business decisions ?

Please read up on the roles, responsibilities , remuneration and career prospects of business analysts, then make up your own mind.

BeboNGN:


Okay. In essence you can hire anyone and call him a data scientist while he's doing data entry work.

Good, let's ignore the professional jargons.

TheLionofLasigi:
Not sure, but Data Analysis or Data Science is better especially if you have background in CS or finance.

GboyegaD:
Business Analysis isn't technically same as Business Analytics. Analysis is simply analyzing past data to understand pattern while Analytics involves being able to use the data and past trends to make more accurate predictions of the future.

Most Business Analytics program covers more of the Data Analytics side of things as such prepares you for roles in the Businesses Analytics, Data Analytics, and Data Science fields.

Lastly, the difference between Business Analytics and Data Analytics is how both utilizes data. The former gathers data mainly for end to end process improvements while the latter is to understand, draw insights, and make predictions.

Omega48:

Why do you guys just come up with rubbish, how can business analytics prepare you for data science now... How? Do u even know what data science is?

Tats:


The best way for now is to enrol in a BA course and do a certification in it. When you finish, you can search for BA jobs that do not need a lot of experience but require certification for instance. I don't think that there are many IT projects in Law, but what your background in Law brings are communication skills and the ability to ask people questions when you are trying to get information out of them. In a BA role, you have to ask the business and system Users lots of questions and document them and sometimes, it is more like probing people to get the right information on what their user needs are or what they do in their jobs which need to be computerised.

Every IT project is related to a certain area such as building systems/Apps/Websites for banking, Oil & Gas, mobile telecoms, mining, technology, pharmaceutical, health, transport companies etc. So think of what systems do in companies or what the public do with different Apps and websites. If you are a BA on a project for one of these companies, you may be involved in building internal systems that they use or building their Apps and Websites for the public.

tutudesz:

Meaning a project manager can also be employed in place of a business analyst
Like I said must companies want someone that can take on multiple roles, instead of employing more workers

blank:


Get a professional designation like Cbab. You can add PMP and Agile/Scrum. Find your way out of Nigeria and earn good money.

Any degree you have will be good as a start.