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Laura Brandenburg

Just a quick update on our goal for 50 BAs in 2012. While we’re still waiting for our very first entrant for the 2012 Registry, we’ve added 2 BAs to the 2011 Registry, helped many rethink their transition plans in last week’s webinar, and are taking registrations for our next Launch Your Business Analysis Career course. Who [...]

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A reader asks: What is the best way to/how to tackle behavioral interview questions? Laura’s answer: Honestly. I thought about ending the post with this one-word answer. But then I just couldn’t do it. So let’s take a step back and address the underlying components of this question. What is a behavioral interview question? Behavioral [...]

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Verification ensures the intrinsic quality of the requirements. Although it would be a significant waste of time outside academic circles, I could verify requirements for a solution that had zero business value and that my organization had no intention of funding. They’d be verified but not validated (and we’ll get to validated next). The purpose [...]

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Looking to find your first business analyst job in 2012? Not sure how to overcome your experience gap or what training or certifications will help you break into our profession? If so, this complimentary webinar is for you! Join us for a Complimentary Webinar After attending this complimentary webinar you will be able to: Decide [...]

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While we’ve already talked about the importance of Preparing for Elicitation and Conducting Elicitation Activities, it’s not enough to stop there. The next two (and IMHO, critical) tasks in the Elicitation Knowledge area are Document Elicitation Results and Confirm Elicitation Results. The purpose of Document Elicitation Results is to: Record the information provided by stakeholders for [...]

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Just a quick update on our goal for 50 BAs in 2012. This past week, we’ve added 2 BAs to the Registry, one to 2010 and one to 2011. New BAs! Evan Wise had a varied career as an implementation manager, systems analyst and developer before applying for his first contract BA position. He leveraged our [...]

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One day last fall I had a typical BA moment. I received a call, before I’d even had a sip of my morning coffee or opened my email, that came in with a sense of urgency. I was helping an organization interview BAs for a job opening. There was a job interview scheduled for about [...]

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When I first started my consulting business just over 3 years ago, I intended to focus solely on understanding the capabilities of legacy systems. Unearthing requirements had become a bit of a pet passion of mine and I realized that in every BA role I’d had in years prior, I was always trying to find [...]

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Real goals have numbers. I’ve been talking about helping BAs advance their careers for a long time. Now I’m ready to do something measurable to make a contribution to our profession. As you may have read in Monday’s post about my BHAG (that’s Big Hairy Audacious Goal – thanks JL for the correction!), I’m set on helping [...]

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Happy New Year! Let me be among the first to say Happy New Year! I hope you and your loved ones had safe and happy celebrations.  We had a quiet new years with our 2 month little girl and some close friends. To be honest, it was tempting to call it a night 2 hours [...]

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