Business analysis in the context of a specific job title and larger industry is still in it’s infancy. Originating in the 90’s and 2000’s as technology became less an less dependent on hardware and practitioners could start design solutions in a more open way. Business Analysis began as a technical domain of understanding what technology could do and weeding out how that relates to a business need.

This immaturity is evident in the the fact the [Business analysis is poorly defined]

In comparison to construction or accounting for instance business analysis is very new and burgeoning.

Today Business analysis is far more general and [Business Analysis Operates Between Business and Development Teams]; needing a good deal of knowledge from both.

As technology has continued to become more complicated the role of the BA has continued to expand and as such created a need for industry, industry bodies and industry standards