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Vaibhav Behere, India
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Project Manager versus Business Analyst
How is the role of a project manager different from business analyst? Is a project manager required to know the business process?
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Luis, China
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Project Manager versus Business Analyst
In principle, a PM does not need to know the business process. But in a real project, no matter how big the project is, it's helpful for the PM if he knows the business processes so that he can ensure the project is under control.
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Vaibhav Behere, India
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How is Project Manager Different from a Business Analyst?
Thank you for the clarification, it's a good first answer.
Who can throw more light on what are the main overlaps and what are the main differences between a project manager and a business analist?
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Luis, China
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Difference Between Project Manager and Business Analyst
- A qualified business analist should contribute in requirements collection, clarification, documentation, and translate these to function specification. Also she/he needs to verify the result and support uat.
- A project manager will be responsible for the delivery of this project. In the area of reporting and mornitoring, the project manager also needs knowledge of the business requirements.
Hope the above analysis can help to answer your questions.
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PG van Bladel, Sweden
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Analists Analyze, and PM's Manage :-)
A PM is managing a project. That means organizing a temporary organisational structure (people and means) in order to achieve a certain goal.
A business analyst looks at a business matter, in order to provide an analysis for it.
There can be much overlap:
* The whole goal of a PM's project can be to provide an analysis. Then an analyst can be the project manager. But as a PM one always has to look for the aspects that go into running the project. e.g. can my project members do their work? What are risks threatening my project outcome? Am I running late or out of funding?
* A project should have a business case at its core (among other things stating what the benefit of the project is). A business analyst can provide such a business case.
* A project often delivers a product that has to be inserted in a business process. A business analyst can draw such a business processes, and see that the project deliverable fits in.
* Etc.
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Natarajan Ramanathan, India
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Project Manager and Business Analyst
In general, the project manager is responsible for the successful execution of a project; whereas the business analyst is responsible for the realms of the business processes.
Having said that, when the project manager does not have any domain knowledge and does not have any understanding of the business processes, there are likely going to be issues in planning, developing and executing a project.
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Esta Lessing
Analyst, Australia
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Responsibility Differences Between a Project Manager and a Business Analyst
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K.Narayana Moorthy
HR Consultant, India
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Responsibility Differences Between a PM and a BA
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Paul D Giammalvo
Management Consultant, Indonesia
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Synonyms for Business Analyst
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K.Narayana Moorthy
HR Consultant, India
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Business Analyst versus Project Manager
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James07, India
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The Project Manager versus the Business Analyst
The core of the difference is in the title:
The PROJECT MANAGER manages the project – "The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to provide activities to meet the project requiremen (...)
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