Business Analysis and Leadership

16

Operating effectively as a business analyst inside an organization

SIMON EDWARDS

Twenty years ago, my first meeting with my new project team didn’t go as expected. As a new graduate, I’d been looking forward to the day’s break from the graduate training programme to learn more about the project to which I’d been assigned. However, when I pitched up I was greeted by two analysts playing chess. They told me that the project was inevitably going to be cancelled, after a year spent on analysis, because it had lost the support of its sponsors. A few weeks later I got the call to confirm that the organizationally aware analysts had been right.

As this book’s Introduction sets out, the role of business analysis is to turn strategic goals and visions ...