Advance Your Business Analysis Career
From the category archives:
Reader’s Question: I have been working in the medical and spa industry for over 10 years. It seems every position I have involves some BA type duties from rewriting policy and procedure manuals to doing efficiency studies. I need to find a mentor to assist me in turning all this random experience into a BA [...]
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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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Imagine the scene. It’s 22:30, and an aircraft is preparing to take off for a long haul flight. In the cockpit, the captain and first officer are busy carrying out their final pre-flight checks. They check the weather, the fuel levels and a whole range of technical dials and indicators. They start to map out [...]
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Let’s face it, who has time for traditional face-to-face study groups anymore? Being a mother of two while running a small company and trying to keep up with friends, family, and managing a household, there is no way you can pencil me in for anything face to face these days. That’s why I love the concept [...]
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Reader’s Question: “I’m wondering about the CBAP® certification. Is the work experience component to be 7500 hours with the title of “Business Analyst”, or do all activities that a business analyst would perform count towards these hours? For example, if you have been a BA for 2 years (4000 hours), and QA for 3 years [...]
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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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However much you enjoy your job, chances are that you have some days where you start to wonder exactly why you chose business analysis as a career. As BAs, there is no doubt that we feel the pressure now and again – whether it’s from a screaming programme manager, or perhaps just the pressure we put [...]
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As I prepared for my CBAP exam, one of the big areas of contention was the use of exam simulators. At first, around week 3, I found them to be very helpful in gauging whether my review of the BABOK material was adequately in-depth to sit for the exam. But as time wore on, I [...]
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I started this series on “Building BA Maturity” back in January of this year and I’ve really enjoyed all the interviews and conversations with so much of the talent and insight in our community. From Bob Prentiss to Ellen Gottesdiener. From Peter Johnson to Thea Turray and James Taylor. I’ve had a blast and learned [...]
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Sergey Korban has been in the IT industry for over 25 years and has hands on experience in business analysis, project management and software development management. He is passionate about making businesses more effective and enjoys presenting complex information visually to make it more accessible. I recently had the chance to ask him a few [...]
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