Thanks for the lovely comments, I enjoyed getting all my thoughts down on 'paper'.
The move from a central function to embedding Analysts in teams is really tricky. It's so easy to feel silo'd and miss out on all the things you pick up just by 'hanging around'. I certainly agree it needs to be handled carefully. I prefer the model where Analysts still report in to a central function for the same reasons you've described. It's too easy for Functional leads to treat the Analyst as a vending machine.
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Thanks for the lovely comments, I enjoyed getting all my thoughts down on 'paper'.
The move from a central function to embedding Analysts in teams is really tricky. It's so easy to feel silo'd and miss out on all the things you pick up just by 'hanging around'. I certainly agree it needs to be handled carefully. I prefer the model where Analysts still report in to a central function for the same reasons you've described. It's too easy for Functional leads to treat the Analyst as a vending machine.