by Kathleen Barret, a senior business consultant at BMO Financial Group.
1. Analytical or systems thinking - being able to see how things work together.
2. Client relationship management
3. Coaching and mentoring - driving out shared skills and learning from peers
4. Consensus and agreement building
5. Change leadership
6. Modeling - including data and process modeling and functional design
7. Facilitation or requirements solicitation - the ability to pull together experts to get the right information from them.
8. Professional knowledge - an understanding of the business
9. Requirements planning and management
10. Verbal and written communications
If you want to be a business analyst, take a look at yourself and where you stand on these things and address any gaps and figure out what you have to do to fill in your experience.