Between You and Your Business Analysis Career
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Editor’s Note: Bridging the Gap is piloting a new content feature today — BA Success Stories are designed to highlight business analysts across the globe who are making things happen and taking forward steps in their careers. Interested in sharing your story? Contact me with your idea! This week we meet Kimberley Heath. Kimberley has [...]
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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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Editor’s Note: I’m excited to bring you a summary of a recent conversation I had with Ellen Gottesdiener, someone I personally respect greatly, both in what she has achieved in her career and what she has given to the business analyst community, including the wealth of free requirements resources on EBG Consulting’s website. Ellen had [...]
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I became a business analyst when I no longer saw technology as the only solution. It seems that every week I learn something new about our profession and business change in general. When speaking with Steve Blais, author of a forthcoming book series that centers around the essence of business analysis, I felt privy to [...]
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Dave Schrenk, CBAP has been a business analyst for over 10 years and currently holds the amazing title of Business Analyst Competency Development Consultant for Erie Insurance Group. Dave was kind enough to share his story about what he does, how he landed in such a unique position, and how the CBAP has played a [...]
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Jonathan Kupersmith (aka “Kupe) is the Director of Client Solutions at B2T Training and is a prolific writer within the business analysis profession, hosting a blog and frequent webinars at BATimes. Recent topics include: You Need Desire to Be a Desired BA and Will the Real BA Foundational Skills Please Stand-up. Kupe provides an undercurrent [...]
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Rick Clare, OCP, CBAP, PMP is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA with over 20 years of experience as a developer, business analyst, trainer, and project manager. Rick is actively involved with IIBA, chairing the Chapter Growth Committee and leading the effort to product a book concerned with management of [...]
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Check your ego at the door. Editor’s Note: I consider myself lucky that I’ve chosen a path where I have the opportunity to meet new business analysts every week. Cecilie and I chatted over the phone one early evening. To be honest, my mind was pulled elsewhere…I had had one of the toughest days of [...]
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Mark Jenkins and I had the opportunity to chat a few months back while he was Manager, Business Analysis at Websense. He has since taken on a new role on the other side of the country as Associate Director, Business Analysis at KPMG. We initiated a conversation as the result of a Twitter stream [follow [...]
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The best business analysts are open-minded. They let you help them get better. Editor’s Note: Before the holidays I had the opportunity to sit down with fellow-IIBA-Denver board member, Kym Byron and talk about her role and her career advice for other BAs. It’s always amazing to me how you can collaborate with someone and [...]
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