The Question the Bard Never Asked

To be the BA, or to buy the BA: that is the question:

Whether ’tis more profitable for the project to suffer

The lack of analysis expertise of the SME,

Or to take arms across seas of troubles,

And by buying the Analyst skill, develop requirements? To hope: to wish;

No more; and by hope alone to say we end

The project and accept thousands lost forever.

That price is expected in IT, ’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be strived. To go on, to continue;

To continue: perchance to succeed: ay, there’s the rub;

For in that depth of effort what functions may come

When we have sloughed off this uncertainty,

Must give us pause: there’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long a project;

For who would bear the cries and moans of our customers,

The developers wronged, the testers scorned

The pangs of decreased functionality, the law’s delay,

The insolence of the PMO and the spurns

That analyst merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his questions make

With a bare minimum of knowledge? Who would answers find,

To grunt and sweat under a weary project,

But that the dread of something after implementation,

The known unknown from whose deployment

No analyst returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than try for others that we know not of?

Thus fear does make analysts of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is slicked o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action. – Soft you now!

Thee fair business analyst! Developer, in thy project

Be all my requirements fulfilled.

So What Do You Do Now?

- See more at: http://bizlinks.nl/business-analysis-a-la-shakespeare-to-be-a-ba-or-to-b...

The Question the Bard Never Asked

To be the BA, or to buy the BA: that is the question:

Whether ’tis more profitable for the project to suffer

The lack of analysis expertise of the SME,

Or to take arms across seas of troubles,

And by buying the Analyst skill, develop requirements? To hope: to wish;

No more; and by hope alone to say we end

The project and accept thousands lost forever.

That price is expected in IT, ’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be strived. To go on, to continue;

To continue: perchance to succeed: ay, there’s the rub;

For in that depth of effort what functions may come

When we have sloughed off this uncertainty,

Must give us pause: there’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long a project;

For who would bear the cries and moans of our customers,

The developers wronged, the testers scorned

The pangs of decreased functionality, the law’s delay,

The insolence of the PMO and the spurns

That analyst merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his questions make

With a bare minimum of knowledge? Who would answers find,

To grunt and sweat under a weary project,

But that the dread of something after implementation,

The known unknown from whose deployment

No analyst returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than try for others that we know not of?

Thus fear does make analysts of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is slicked o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action. – Soft you now!

Thee fair business analyst! Developer, in thy project

Be all my requirements fulfilled.

So What Do You Do Now?

- See more at: http://bizlinks.nl/business-analysis-a-la-shakespeare-to-be-a-ba-or-to-b...

The Question the Bard Never Asked

To be the BA, or to buy the BA: that is the question:

Whether ’tis more profitable for the project to suffer

The lack of analysis expertise of the SME,

Or to take arms across seas of troubles,

And by buying the Analyst skill, develop requirements? To hope: to wish;

No more; and by hope alone to say we end

The project and accept thousands lost forever.

That price is expected in IT, ’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be strived. To go on, to continue;

To continue: perchance to succeed: ay, there’s the rub;

For in that depth of effort what functions may come

When we have sloughed off this uncertainty,

Must give us pause: there’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long a project;

For who would bear the cries and moans of our customers,

The developers wronged, the testers scorned

The pangs of decreased functionality, the law’s delay,

The insolence of the PMO and the spurns

That analyst merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his questions make

With a bare minimum of knowledge? Who would answers find,

To grunt and sweat under a weary project,

But that the dread of something after implementation,

The known unknown from whose deployment

No analyst returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than try for others that we know not of?

Thus fear does make analysts of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is slicked o’er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action. – Soft you now!

Thee fair business analyst! Developer, in thy project

Be all my requirements fulfilled.

So What Do You Do Now?

- See more at: http://bizlinks.nl/business-analysis-a-la-shakespeare-to-be-a-ba-or-to-b...