BA & PM Personalities

Bear with me on this one...It occurred recently to me (and it jives with personal experience) that:

• A PM should be pushy in order to get things moving and done
• A BA should be inquisitive and customer-focused

If you have the personalities reversed:

• A PM who is not so aggressive and who wants to gain consensus and make things right before commencing on a project, you might wait a loooong time before a project gets done.
• A BA who is pushy & aggressive is the most dangerous; they can really throw your project off because the BA may not gather all the details necessary to do a thorough analysis, does not listen to all the nuances and communications a stakeholder emits; s/he may not communicate all the details to the development team because they're off to the next project, etc.