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I wanted to share a personal story with each of you. Some of you already know it; some of you will be told anew. The reason I’m sharing it is that I am aware that many of you struggle to figure out what to do to get ahead in your careers as aspiring or experienced [...]
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One of our older posts to Help a BA!! had our reader asking the following… I started off as an IT BA putting together functional specifications and detailing user-interface screens. Later, moving companies, I worked as a Business BA undertaking requirements facilitation, BPMN process mapping as-is, to-be, covering Lean/Six Sigma practice. I then moved into [...]
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Greetings fellow BAs. As you know, I’ve written before about how you are in control of your own career, progress, destiny, whether you wear matching shoes to work, etc. I’ve been thinking for a while about a new blog post and keep coming back to this topic, but don’t want to rehash the same ole’ [...]
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We ask the questions that people having been avoiding for years while they were trying to look smart. I read an article today from our respected colleague, Yaaqub Mohamed about the importance of data analysis as part of a good analyst’s tool belt. Well that is not exactly how he put it, but you get [...]
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Reader question: My past 25 years of work experience has been in the not-for-profit sector, in both program work as well as various IT roles. A part of this work that I have enjoyed very much is when I have had the opportunity to help the organization I was working for to improve its processes [...]
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Reader Question: I was a project manager for 25 years, but for the past 4 years I have been involved in software QA and Process Improvement as a consultant for CMMI and other standards. I’ve been giving serious thought to moving towards a BA emphasis in my career, returning to earlier roots as a systems [...]
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Reader question: I work for a software firm similar to Bloomberg that develops and sells financial analysis software. I am product specialist and consultant hybrid. I do several tasks similar to that of a Business Analyst (BA) but we are not BAs since we only support the product and not help build the product. After [...]
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To set the stage for this post, I want to say that I volunteer on the Board of Directors for the Dallas IIBA Local Chapter. As the new year has started, I find myself wondering what I can do to better reach out to get members excited enough about their profession to enjoy coming to [...]
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A reader writes in…. I am a software designer with 2 yrs experience in developing web based applications for a large software house. I am looking to further my career in Business Analysis. I have a keen interest in print media as well. Business Analyst have a very important part to play in IT but [...]
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Reader question: A co-worker (BA) and I (another BA) have been asked by our CIO to provide a ‘best practice’ or recommended ratio of Business Analysts to Project Managers. We currently have 7 BAs and 17 PMs which seems skewed, but none of us know what a better ratio should be. Have you done any [...]
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