Domain Expertise and the Business Analyst: How Vital Is It?

Sep 15, 2019

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The question of how essential domain expertise is to a business analyst is a recurring debate in the BA community. One school of thought maintains that domain knowledge is not critical. A skilled BA, the thinking goes, can walk into nearly any project situation and do an effective job of exploring r...

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