I’ve been following your posts for a couple of weeks now and I find your real-life contributions extremely useful & often thought provoking. Many thanks and keep up the good work!

All the best, Mark

The discussion took place last July/Auguest was quite interesting.

In my experience as a BA and an employee, the performance measures for individuald are aligned with organizational goals, objectives, and values. I have been measured for more than what I do as a BA. The direct measure of me as a BA is often client satisfaction, which seemed soft and not hard numbers or metrics like some have suggested.

With that in mind, I wanted to learn from the experiences from BAs in organizations where such measures are in place.

Upon more reflection, however, I agree with your assessment that micro-level measures for BAs become meaningless if a client preceives that a project did not deliver any value.

Those questions that you suggested are good ones. Give me more to think about before my next performance review meeting.

Thanks,

There are definitely varying perspectives on this. The LinkedIn discussion you reference brings some different ideas to light.

I think for any given role, I you measure your performance needs to start with a discussion with your manager. How do they perceive your value? What is important to them? What is important to the organization and how does your work contribute to those larger objectives? These can be tough questions for some managers to answer, but starting the discussion is the first step.

Laura

I couldn’t agree with you more about “Your Career is in Your Own Hands”.

On the topic of career development and performance review, I wonder how many BAs have the experience where their performance is measured directly by the work that they do. Some recent posting suggested using metrics to measure the effectivenss and performance of a BA.
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/software-development/TCH_SFT/594110-6050183?searchIdx=13&sik=1264462108734&goback=%2Easr_2_1264462108734

It would be wonderful to be able to show the metrics on one’s resume or perfornace evaluation. I would like to hear real time experience or stories on using them.