Advance Your Business Analysis Career
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The start of a new year provides a psychological “fresh start” and an opportunity to reflect on past successes and future challenges. In particular, I always find January a great time to take stock of the areas where I’d like to develop my career over the coming year. However, when it comes to personal development [...]
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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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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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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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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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There have been a range of reactions to the passing of Steve Jobs. Many people, myself included, have been surprised at the depth of feelings brought up by the loss. Of course, I’m sad for his family and all those who were close to him, and all his colleagues at Apple. But I’m feeling something [...]
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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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While we might all agree that a great business analyst does not need to have technical skills, in the sense that they don’t need to write code or create software programs, in today’s world an awareness of emerging technologies and the capabilities they enable for our organizations is increasing in importance, even if our roles [...]
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It has become a good habit for me to review the projects completed over the last financial year. The company I’m at has recognized my contribution over the finished year in a very positive way. The business stakeholders expressed their positive feedback and intention to engage me in the new projects in the coming year. [...]
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