Where do analytics come from?

Question

Project management

Not abstract analysts, but requirements analysts or system analysts.

Those who collect customer requirements, analyze and systematize requirements, offer their own options for optimal processes, prepare technical specifications for programmers.

From whom to select them?
What are the requirements for them?
How and what to teach?
What books do they need to study?
Are there interesting/useful communities of analysts in the network?

Answer 1

As for the community, there is uml2.ru. There is also a more or less active seminar and training party. There you can also read multi-volume discussions about analysts and the requirements for them and read all that.
From books. Coburn has already been advised above, an excellent book.
Vigers is considered to be a classic in requirements management: Development of software requirements.

Answer 2

Decide what analytics you need.
Business analytics - which describe processes. Or system analysts who act as an intermediary between the customer and the programmers.

Answer 3

System analysts are taught with varying degrees of success at Moscow State University PS, economic informatics. In terms of working with TK and other things, they teach themselves quite well. + some are sent to Deutschland to study.