Advance Your Business Analysis Career
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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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The purposeful development of relevant skills doesn’t stop when you’re hired as a Business Analyst – it’s really just the beginning. The competencies you develop on the job teach you how to assess a situation, evaluate the benefit and risk of various options, and make recommendations that, if implemented, will bring the highest value. And [...]
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As Business Analysts we work in an environment of constant change. In economic downturns some organizations choose to cut change budgets, and this can affect job security for all change practitioners. Whilst some would argue that there is little job security in Business Analysis, I believe that there is a huge amount of career security. [...]
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When you are ‘dropped in’ as a consultant into a company that you have never worked for, the most important first step is to begin to build the relationships with your stakeholders. Not only do you want them to trust you, you want to them to know that you can follow through on any deliverable [...]
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Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of my interview with Ellen Gottesdiener of EBG Consulting. In our first interview, I shared Ellen’s insights on BA learning and professional development. Today we focus on what BAs can learn from consulting about becoming a great BA. We also learn Ellen’s answer to my favorite question: “How do [...]
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Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes here at Bridging the Gap? I typically obscure most of the murky details, not feeling it’s relevant to our mission here of becoming better business analysts. If you are interested, I recently was a featured soloist on a great blog by Larry Keltto titled “The Solopreneur’s Life”. [...]
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Reader question: I find it frustrating that recruiters take such a huge mark-up on my salary. It seems that I am doing most of the work and responsible for delivering value to my employer. Why do they get paid so much? Steve’s answer: Recruiters have to make money somehow. They provide a service ‘adding value’ [...]
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A reader writes in with the following question: I work with a new consulting firm and at the moment I have to visit different offices (hospitals, banks, software houses etc) to introduce my company and discuss how we can be of help to them. The problem I am having is how to best present our [...]
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This week we have the opportunity to meet with Aaron Whittenberger, a Certified Business Analysis Professional(R) with over 20 years in the IT industry and 12 years as a consultant. Aaron currently consults with STAR BASE Consulting and blogs about IT Consulting and Business Analysis. Aaron discovered the business analysis profession just a few years [...]
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about being a contractor lately. In these challenging economic times, it seems a lot of people are looking for creative ways to make ends meet. There are also signs that people are a bit fed up with some of the structure and relative insecurity of “full-time” employment and [...]
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