The Access Problem for Business Analysts
ArchBA is elevating the role of traditional Business Analysts.
By the time you were engaged, the important decisions were already made.
The scope was set. The solution was assumed. The budget was committed. Your job was to document requirements for a direction someone else had already chosen, often badly.
Every experienced Business Analyst knows this feeling. You weren’t in the room when the real work should have happened. You were brought in after.
That is not an inherent limitation of the BA role. It is an organizational habit. One that treats Business Analysts as downstream order-takers rather than the strategic thinkers most experienced BAs actually are.
The ArchBA is what changes that. (https://www.archba.org/)
It formalizes the engagement model that should have always existed: a Business Analyst operating in the Strategic Assessment phase, before any project is approved, with direct access to transformation sponsors and senior stakeholders, and a methodology for the work that determines whether a project should exist at all.
The access was always the barrier. The ArchBA removes it.
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