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Our business analyst community needs your help! We receive questions from new, potential, and experienced business analysts nearly every day. People have questions about skills, jobs, responsibilities, and next steps to advance their career. This series opens up Bridging the Gap as a forum to help other business analysts and a platform for you to share your expertise.
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A participant of the course, Crafting Better Requirements, that I’m teaching at the My Business Analysis Career platform asks: We run into situations where the business users want provide the design of the solution besides the business requirements. The technical team is against it — they would prefer to be responsible for the design phase. [...]
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Reader’s question: I need some help in documenting my BA experience for the CBAP requirements, i.e. total 7500 hrs exp, 900 hrs exp. in any 4 knowledge areas of the BABOK, the 21 PD hours and 2 references…how do I prepare this document for applying for the exam? Aaron’s response: Fortunately for those interested in [...]
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A reader asks: Recently, I attended an interview where the interviewer asked me the questions below… Could you throw some light on how to handle these kinds of questions? Why do you want to become a BA ? If given an opportunity, what is the one aspect you wish to change in BA ? What [...]
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Reader question: My past 25 years of work experience has been in the not-for-profit sector, in both program work as well as various IT roles. A part of this work that I have enjoyed very much is when I have had the opportunity to help the organization I was working for to improve its processes [...]
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Reader’s question: Can you share your list of free webinars that offer PDs? Aaron’s reply: As any good Business Analyst would do, let’s make sure we are talking about the same thing. PDs is the abbreviation for Professional Development hours, of which you need 21 to qualify to sit for the CCBATM or CBAP® exam. [...]
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I often have readers write in and ask me about potential job opportunities. They might ask any of the following questions: Should I stay on at my current company and try to fit in to a new role vs. finding that role elsewhere? I have a job offer on the table but a job that’s [...]
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Reader Question: I was a project manager for 25 years, but for the past 4 years I have been involved in software QA and Process Improvement as a consultant for CMMI and other standards. I’ve been giving serious thought to moving towards a BA emphasis in my career, returning to earlier roots as a systems [...]
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Reader’s question: “Are the two certifications (CABA and CSBA) administrated by QAI Global Institute comparable to the two certifications (CCBATM and CBAP®) administrated by the IIBA®?” Aaron’s reply: I was actually asked about these QAI certifications a couple months ago in LinkedIn. Prior to that, I had never heard of the QAI, CABA or CSBA. [...]
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Reader Question: Some BA jobs require SAP experience, but how do you get it if you don’t have it? Eric’s Response: Many BA job posts require applicants to have some kind of experience about specific business software, such as ERPs, CRMs or other specialized software. Although it can be a questionable requirement for a job [...]
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Reader question: Is it a trend that BAs see the project manager role as a natural progression of the BA career path? I have recently took on a role of a BA Lead and held career development sessions with my team. Often most of them cited becoming project managers as their long term goal. I [...]
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