EPMO Team Needs More Senior Business Performance Analyst to be successful!

I would like to point out that the emerging Business Analyst (BA) skill and competency profile in the Business Process Management (BPM) field and effective PM are blurring the lines more each day in support of successful business performance. I argue that today’s Business Analysts have a sophisticated role that includes (and is not limited to) enterprise business architecture and modeling, defining agile enterprise business requirements, facilitating lean/agile process improvement efforts, applying process frameworks (e.g., CMMI), understanding both the emerging BABoK and existing PMBoK and where they collaborate, and enterprise and/or program performance technology support (e.g., IT dashboards, portfolios). This new role will combine the competency of both BPM and PM fields as time goes by and BPM becomes more developed as part of enterprise strategies to increase and balance business performance.
We need to stress the importance of looking at situations from a broad enterprise and program business perspective rather than a narrower IT viewpoint.

Any high-performing EPMO team would not be complete or competent without having a few great business performance analysts in play!