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In my experience, most of these aspects – requirements gathering, wireframing, test case specification, even bug logging – have a business side and a technical side.

I think Product Managers often take on a lot of these BA responsibilities, they've got the domain knowledge, but there's another step of translation from "build an X that does Y" to "build an X, in A, that does Y, but not Z, in B time, integrating with systems I, J, K". I think that takes an engineering perspective.

I've not worked with anyone titled Business Analyst that does the role you've described, but working with PMs, BI people, and others, there's a large gulf between requirements and tests that they would specify at their level, and requirements and tests that a programmer could work from.




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