Between You and Your Business Analysis Career
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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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It’s been a while since we checked in on how everyone was progressing in their business analysis careers. I see evidence, big and small, of members of the Bridging the Gap community taking meaningful forward steps every week. We have Eve’s recent story of stepping outside of her area of expertise (a big example). Then we [...]
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Every once in awhile, I receive a reader comment that just makes my heart swell with pride. Last week Even McGivern gave me such a gift. Here’s her comment on a post from June 2009 titled “Is your strength grounded in system knowledge or business analyst competencies?” Laura, I wanted to let you know that [...]
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Reader’s Question: Thanks a lot……I personally find your site and portal of very good help and purpose to serious business analysts. It is not only reiterating facts that we may know to ourselves but to read similar opinions just reinforces the business analysis practice that we might each follow or may have comfortably settled into [...]
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These past few months have been busy ones for me. I’ve finished building the Launching Your BA Career course content and launched enrollment for two new courses. The last two weeks in particular were quite intense — we closed on a house, attended two prenatal appointments, I finished enrollment on Launching Your BA Career, finished [...]
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