Who is more creative minded....a business analyst or a developer....??

Agree with Vishal...

I think both BA and Developer are creative in their own field. BA role is to see client's requirement and after going through the requirment he suggests client on the basis of his experience and creativity to alter certain things that will provide certian benefits to client in terms of operational efficieny or better utilization of resources etc. Here BA is creative because he sees a bigger picture and suggests accordingly.

One the other hand developers job is to build software for client's requirement. Here developers can use his experience and creativity to develop robust and easy to use software which can be easily upgraded and modified in future. Developing a software and developing software with an easily accessible option to upgrade or modified in future are two different thing. Developers uses his creativity here.  

So, we can't underestimate anyone's creativity. One is creative in functional field and other one in technical.

I beleive both work in diffrent profile to complete same task.... And task is to complete as per project  signed off.BA takes input from client and create a pitch for designer,devloper etc. The handling the client is a major task which require great management skill which can't think by developer. I know some cases developer speak to client but topic and reason of discuss would be different. Developer has diffrenet skill set .... language,coding  knowledge is a main skil set of developer. That's why developer can develop what client what..... However devlopercan't create pitch. It is created by BA only. So Both are pillar of any organisation an we can't evaluate who have enough talent? Because are very taleneted and having creative mind. It never easy to code without creative nor easy for BA to create pitch for developers without creative and imaginative thinking.

Vijay & radhakrishnan, first of all thanks for ur vies..

Now i would like to say, in reply to Vijay, that when u r saying that picture is very clear to BAs & Developrs use their imagination power to develop an application....but dont u think that the mock ups or kind of demo screens or such material that BAs provide to Dev team help them a lot to get the picture of the application...

& the big thing is that the BAs have to dig the requirements that a customer has in his mind but who is not clear what exactly it should look like...

thats why i said...BAs have a li'l upper hand...

I found earlier a BA's work is boring and involves lots of trivial stuff, but it usually gets better chances to be promoted to a management role. Typical career path is BA to PM and then to Portfolio Manager. So there is lot of chance to be more creative, but then it limits our role only in some specific fields like Finance, Telcom,IT....but then i don't think only BA's are creative minded, its just among both of them BA has an edge, but everybody else can be creative where they go for new approach for their work, by which it gives in which way one can ensure there is more productivity, so creativeness is not limited to few, all can be creative and do good...