Comments on The Business Analysis Blog: Multicultured Business Analyst

Ronald the idea is to get the work done efficientl...

2008-07-21T00:14:00.000+05:30

Ronald the idea is to get the work done efficiently and correctly. If we happen to work with a client with different set of beliefs than our own we should not let it be a blocker for our work. We need to understand his business and that's what we should always focus on. Yet time and again it happens that these differences do impede the work and that's the challenge.

Most of the work that I do as a Business Analyst is about applying a lot of common sense and keep digging deeper into my client's business. I am sure it's the same with you :)

I think the first sentence that made me wonder was...

2008-07-20T19:11:00.000+05:30

I think the first sentence that made me wonder was "In a way a BA needs to replicate a lot of things that he does in real life to the work environment."

Do you want to imply that people see work environment as unreal life? Not part of real life? - what's worst I can see that a lot of people think that work and life are absolutely different stuff.

But it's a pretty good sum up some of the things you need to work with people. The really fun thing is that most of it is simple common sense, and being polite.