Are developers expected to have skills of business analysts?

Posted by T. Webster on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by T. Webster
Published on 2012-03-24T06:05:51Z Indexed on 2012/03/24 11:38 UTC
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Our business analyst has left the team. We are now expected to do the work which was previously done by the business analyst, and the management thinks that a task which is done in three months by a business analyst can be done in one month by a developer.

My experience is in programming only, and I'm not familiar to the business intelligence tools. To me this seems like maybe an unfair comparison or expectation, and might even trivialize the role of a business analyst.

Has anyone else encountered this situation? How to deal with it?

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