Career Overlap Transition record
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ICT project manager to ICT business analyst

An ICT project manager already meets 29% of what the ICT business analyst role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From ICT project manager
29 % overlap
Distant match
To ICT business analyst
9 You already bring
12 Still to learn
37 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Substantial retraining

70.8/ 100

1 How much of what an ICT business analyst is expected to do is already part of an ICT project manager’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the ICT business analyst role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

An ICT business analyst role treats 6 of its required skills as things an ICT project manager already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • apply change management
  • define technical requirements
  • digital systems
  • identify legal requirements
  • legal requirements of ICT products
  • provide cost benefit analysis reports

What stands in the way is 12 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. An ICT business analyst role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an ICT project manager background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held manage ICT project management skills
  • already held identify legal requirements information skills
  • already held internal risk management policy business, administration and law
  • already held legal requirements of ICT products business, administration and law
  • already held apply change management management skills
  • already held digital systems information and communication technologies (icts)

All 9 carried skills, including the 6 the ICT business analyst role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 28 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 required, 2 supplementary
  • still to learn interact with users to gather requirements required
  • still to learn implement strategic planning required
  • still to learn propose ICT solutions to business problems required
  • still to learn translate requirements into visual design required
  • optional, not held design process optional
  • optional, not held provide user documentation optional
02 information skills 4 required, 1 supplementary
  • still to learn analyse business processes required
  • still to learn analyse business requirements required
  • still to learn analyse the context of an organisation required
  • still to learn identify customer requirements required
  • optional, not held execute analytical mathematical calculations optional
03 business, administration and law 2 required, 5 supplementary
  • still to learn business process modelling required
  • still to learn business requirements techniques required
  • optional, not held ICT market optional
  • optional, not held innovation processes optional
  • optional, not held organisational resilience optional
  • optional, not held business intelligence optional
  • optional, not held business strategy concepts optional
04 management skills 1 required
  • still to learn create business process models required
05 services 1 required
  • still to learn product usage risks analysis required
06 information and communication technologies (icts) 6 supplementary
  • optional, not held business ICT systems optional
  • optional, not held cloud technologies optional
  • optional, not held decision support systems optional
  • optional, not held information architecture optional
  • optional, not held information extraction optional
  • optional, not held unstructured data optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries an ICT business analyst role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 9 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply change management skill
  • already held define technical requirements skill
  • already held digital systems knowledge
  • already held identify legal requirements skill
  • already held legal requirements of ICT products knowledge
  • already held provide cost benefit analysis reports skill
  • already held internal risk management policy knowledge
  • already held manage ICT project skill
  • already held systems development life-cycle knowledge
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to pick up Tier
07 arts and humanities 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
08 social sciences, journalism and information 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held information categorisation optional
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held ICT market optional
  • optional, not held business ICT systems optional
  • optional, not held cloud technologies optional
  • optional, not held decision support systems optional
  • optional, not held information architecture optional
  • optional, not held information categorisation optional
  • optional, not held information extraction optional
  • optional, not held innovation processes optional
  • optional, not held organisational resilience optional
  • optional, not held unstructured data optional
  • optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
  • optional, not held business intelligence optional
  • optional, not held business strategy concepts optional
  • optional, not held design process optional
  • optional, not held execute analytical mathematical calculations optional
  • optional, not held provide user documentation optional
62 held skills the ICT business analyst role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role Agile development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Agile project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role DevOps knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT process quality models knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT project management methodologies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT system user requirements knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Open source model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Outsourcing model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Process-based management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Prototyping development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Rapid application development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Spiral development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Waterfall development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analyse business plans skill
  • not needed by the target role apply conflict management skill
  • not needed by the target role apply organisational techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role blockchain mining principles knowledge
  • not needed by the target role build business relationships skill
  • not needed by the target role carry out project activities skill
  • not needed by the target role coach employees skill
  • not needed by the target role create project specifications skill
  • not needed by the target role create solutions to problems skill
  • not needed by the target role crowdsourcing strategy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role define roadmap for blockchain in applications skill
  • not needed by the target role define technology strategy skill
  • not needed by the target role develop blockchain technology skill
  • not needed by the target role develop information standards skill
  • not needed by the target role document management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role draft project documentation skill
  • not needed by the target role estimate duration of work skill
  • not needed by the target role execute ICT audits skill
  • not needed by the target role hybrid model knowledge
  • not needed by the target role implement ICT risk management skill
  • not needed by the target role incremental development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role insourcing strategy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role iterative development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role lean project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain a central project repository skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain relationship with suppliers skill

22 further entries not listed here

16 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier
  • still to learn business process modelling required
  • still to learn business requirements techniques required
  • still to learn product usage risks analysis required
  • optional, not held ICT market optional
  • optional, not held business ICT systems optional
  • optional, not held cloud technologies optional
  • optional, not held decision support systems optional
  • optional, not held information architecture optional
  • optional, not held information categorisation optional
  • optional, not held information extraction optional
  • optional, not held innovation processes optional
  • optional, not held organisational resilience optional
  • optional, not held unstructured data optional
  • optional, not held visual presentation techniques optional
  • optional, not held business intelligence optional
  • optional, not held business strategy concepts optional
Index

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FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can an ICT project manager become an ICT business analyst?

Yes, and it is a substantial move. An ICT project manager already covers 29% of what an ICT business analyst is expected to do: 9 skills carry over, 6 of which the ICT business analyst role treats as required.

What skills does an ICT project manager need to become an ICT business analyst?

12 required skills are missing, plus 16 optional ones. They fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is business process modelling.

How hard is the move from ICT project manager to ICT business analyst?

Its learning distance is 70.8 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.