Siebel Business Analyst (BA) is quite an interesting and lucrative job . Lucrative because most of the opportunities for a Siebel BA are Abroad.
Yes, the ones who’s dream is to go abroad this is the choice for you. But beware not everybody can be a BA. One of the most important pre-requisite to be a BA is to have good communication skills. You, are at the client end representing your company so you have to good in communication skills.
Business Analyst job can be broadly divided into two streams.
- Technical Business Analyst.
- Functional Business Analyst.
Technical Business Analyst : They are also known as Technical Solution Architects [Sound's impressive isn't it. Well I have worked as one 
]. Their main responsibility is to talk to client, understand the requirement and then design it. The most interesting and challenging part of Technical BA is to design the requirement.
How many times while working as developer we have scolded the person who had created the design. Well, the only way to change it is to be the one to design :). You, need to have strong technical skills if you want to be a Technical BA.
Functional Business Analyst : Their main Responsibility is to understand the requirement functionally. The line between the Technical and Functional BA is really thin and most of the time both duties are performed by one person. Functional BA’s can afford to be technically weak :).
Siebel BA role can be summarized as below
- Talk to client, gather requirements and design it.
- Should have functional and Technical knowledge of product.
- It is Step Forward towards Management Role
Pro’s of BA Role
- You earn in a foreign currency
- Challenging and Interesting Job.
- You get to travel to various places.
- Tremendous contribution towards your Personality growth.
Con’s of BA
- Being on client side you are constantly under lot of pressure.
- You have to be away from you family and country most of the times.
- You have to perpare Technical and Functional Documents [I hate that ]
My Advice : If you don’t mind being away from family and you don’t want to be a techie then this is job you want, provided you have good communication skills. But, If you like India and family like me then may be you might like to stay away from it. But still a good domain option in Siebel and contributes a lot in your personal development and your experience.
PS : The views expressed in above post are my personal. If you think differently feel free to post comments or write to me. I will be more than happy to include them in this post.
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Exactly the way I feel
well, being a BA doesn’t mean a lot of travel.
I’m a technical BA and I almost never travel.
I live in the Netherlands and there are enough projects to keep consultants busy for many years.
writing documentation is the most important part of a BA role. So it doesn’t make sense to say “You have to perpare Technical and Functional Documents” is a Con for a BA.
Would say that writing code is one of a developer drawbacks?
BA is not always more lucrative: in Southern europe, developpers make more money than BA. but in Northen Europe, it’s the other way around.
as for the management role, I can only witness my own experience and that is that all project manager I had in the past & years all came from a technical background (developper => team => lead => architect => project manager)
Generally speaking, all these terms mean nothing (you could have added “solution architect”, solution designer, functional Analyst, it’s all the same crap at the end.
I only see 2 roles:
a BA and a developper. That’s enough to deliver a project.
Hi Matthieu, please can you help me more in starting to be BA especially in documentation and if you can t provide me with good materials or websites that can help me
my email is: ahmad.seddeh[at]gmail.com
Hi BA’s…
I am searching for materials related to Siebel Business Analyst. I am basically a technical person having 4 years of experience in siebel configuration / scripting / wf. And i think the role of BA will have much more challenging type of work and will keep us engaged always. Can you please help me how to become a BA and what are all the ways to achieve my goal. If you have any good documents for that, please kindly share that with me. My mail id is “venguly (at) gmail (dot) com”. Thanks a lot.
Venkat.
One of the biggest problems I noticed when I see BA’s who used to be developers is their lack of written and oral communication skills.
These skills have nothing to do with Siebel or IT in general. Those are normally learnt at school. But I understand most students would rather spend more time studying math and physics than literature.
But it’s never too late, there are institutes which specialized in communications skills and techniques.
I would also consider going back to school, many business schools propose programmes (from a week to several weeks or even months) dedicated to management and communications.
But on the specific role of a BA and the techniques of gathering/analysing/design requirements and solution, I would suggest the following:
You can read all the books that are recommended in this thread:
http://research.it.uts.edu.au/re/re-archive/0540.html
Books again:
http://www.systemsguild.com/GuildSite/Guild/Books.html
A blog on the subject of Requirements Analysis and more stuff:
http://www.incose.org/
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