After recently conversing with my favourite recruiter and determining that I was suitably qualified/experienced to work as a Business Analyst, I set about tailoring my resume this week.
One key component to easily updating one's resume is understanding what details/skills are relevant. In short, what buzzwords are relevant and what experience should you keep versus toss? For my purposes, I needed to grasp the difference between tech writing and business analysis.
While most of you probably know the difference already, I was surprised to find that I hadn't really given much thought to what business analysis is. Here's what I discovered.
Like tech writing, business analysis involves the entire product lifecycle. However, whereas tech writing focuses on documenting the product from the perspective of how users will perform a given task, business analysis focuses on how the product's functionality fits into the company's business model. To put it differently, tech writing focuses on documenting how a user performs a process/task; it's user-centric. Business analysis, on the other hand, focuses on corporate strategy; it's all about helping the business determine the best strategy for addressing the given business need(s).
Both roles require similar skills: interviewing, documenting, liaising, etc. The end product and objective though are different.
In any event, I hope this little definition of mine helps some of you understand both roles better.
Happy job hunting!
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