Education and career for systems and business analysts

What is the most trending vector of development that can be recommended now? Who should I learn from in order to be in the know?

Egor: If we talk about individual areas, topics, disciplines, then integration is the trend. It is gaining more and more momentum. Over the past three years, analysts have begun to ask much more about various types of integration. Five years ago you didn’t have to know integration at all, and you were accepted into almost any company. One might not even know the word “integration”. Now if you can’t explain how the REST API is different and what a message broker is, at least in your fingers, then most likely you will be sent to the second round. This is if we talk about highly specialized knowledge, and if we talk about a broader aspect, about areas, then these are “business analysis”, “system analysis”, “full stack analysis”, “data analysis”, “project management”, for those who, in principle, wants to work in IT. Such a paradoxical situation has arisen that over the past two years we have experienced an outflow of audience (due to the departure of foreign companies), but at the same time, at the same time, the number of domestic Russian projects aimed at import substitution has greatly increased. And all these projects require resources, personnel, and there is a shortage of personnel in the market. That is, you can enter any IT profession that is closer to you.

Innocent: If you want to rock in Russia, then, of course, there is nothing to do here without technical skills. This is integration, I would also look at working with brokers, because lately people have been asking a lot about a broker, especially when it is a middle-senior, and if you have not worked with brokers, then this is sad. Plus, an important point is immersion in databases, at least from the point of view of some Polyglot Persistence and an understanding of which databases can be used for which tasks. If we talk about trends outside of system analysis, then I would try to focus on things related to big business, that is, goal setting, perhaps towards product analysis, product management, because many products continue to develop, agile transformations are underway in banks , and still people are gradually moving towards this product approach, people are starting to think a little “product-wise”.

And – surprise – the coolest investment I've made recently is diving into mindful communication. I can say that this gave me the opportunity to understand very well, firstly, when I am being manipulated, because customers and developers constantly try to manipulate analysts. And you need to be able to handle this and clearly build your boundaries. And here's how to be more effective, you should learn this.

Egor: I will develop this topic. In general, psychology for an analyst – the psychology of communication, the psychology of learning, influence – is very important. You can start with “Thinking Slow, Decide Fast” by Daniel Kahneman, or “How to Win Friends” by Dale Carnegie, “Never Eat Alone” by Kate Ferrazzi. When you understand how to convince a person of something, or when they try to “bend” you very subtly, and you monitor this, it becomes much easier for you to live in principle, and work in general becomes “easy.” Psychology is a very important soft skill, in terms of theory and understanding of how you and the people around you function.

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Thanks everyone and good luck!