The Disruptive Business Analyst

To throw into confusion, throw into disorder, throw into disarray, cause confusion/turmoil in, play havoc with.”

From a technology perspective, it refers to “any enhanced or completely new technology that replaces and disrupts an existing technology, rendering it obsolete. It is designed to succeed similar technology that is already in use. Disruptive technology applies to hardware, software, networks and combined technologies.”

So, what about the disruptive business analyst? I work mostly with tech projects so for me the disruptive business analyst is working with what we used to call bleeding edge technology on new projects for anxiously awaiting project clients leading tech teams on exciting and sometimes dangerous new project adventures. End users and subject matter experts are awaiting a nearly ready solution during user acceptance testing (UAT) and at implementation rollout to the end user community with this creative solution. Hopefully the tech team... and the business analyst... along with the project manager have provided a workable solution that meets their requirements dead on. This can be difficult, of course, anytime you're moving to a new technology that you've not worked with before, the project team hasn't worked with before, the client has never likely seen or used it before, and that may not have been implemented in the client's type of industry before. You're on the edge... you're going where no one has gone before (well, with that customer in that industry anyway...)...

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