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Top Bridging the Gap Posts of 2009

December 28, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

I will be taking a vacation for the holiday season. But knowing that some of you are spending this time pursuing your professional development, I’ve decided to pull out the top posts of 2009, ranked by overall traffic. Of the 185 posts on this blog, these 10 posts generated the most overall page views.
Maybe these [...]

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IIBA Interactive Webinar: The BA Career Path – Becoming, Being and Building

December 4, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Editor’s Note: This IIBA(R) panel and webinar is open to the public. Please join us! Find more information on IIBA Webinars.
Panel discussion with Laura Brandenburg, Rick Clare and Dr. Laura Kesner
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
This month’s webinar is a listener call-in show about starting, [...]

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The Software Requirements Memory Jogger gets even better — now in larger print!

November 27, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Looking for a Black Friday deal or a Christmas wish list item for that special business analyst in your life? Ellen Gottesdiener recently republished the Software Requirements Memory Jogger in a larger print edition. I have the smaller, spiral bound edition (what my husband likes to call my “little book” as I curl up on [...]

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Starting work on “How to Advance Your Business Analyst Career” – your input requested!

November 10, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

So I’ve officially caught the author-bug. Since publishing How to Start a Business Analyst Career I’ve received a lot of feedback that a similar resource is needed for active business analysts looking to advance their career. After some initial planning and research, I’ve officially started work on a new book, tentatively titled How to Advance [...]

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Managing Complex Projects: new book given PMI top honors

October 11, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

Kathleen B. Hass, author Managing Complex Projects: A New Model has been awarded the Project Management Institute (PMI®) David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award for her progression of international project management practices.
As needs change and challenges grow, project management continues to evolve to meet 21st century demands. In Managing Complex Projects: [...]

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Use Case training option — live and remote!

September 8, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

I’m excited to share this training opportunity with you. IconATG is offering a 2-day use case training seminar next Monday and Tuesday (September 14 and 15). The training session is hosted via a live, interactive webinar.
Check out the video below to get a preview of their use case course. This presentation is designed to give [...]

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My experience with IdeaOffer to gather ideas for a blog

September 2, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

I recently posted a project to a site called “IdeaOffer” to receive some ideas about Bridging the Gap. It was an insightful experience. I learned a bit about using online tools and services to engage with other people’s ideas and received some insightful feedback on the site.
To frame the idea, I provided the following short-term [...]

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Looking for your ideas to improve Bridging the Gap

August 18, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

I recently stumbled across a new website called Idea Offer. The way Idea Offer works is that you can post a “project” (or problem) and solicit input from their membership base for ideas to solve that problem. The person submitting the winning idea gets the full prize. But everyone who submitted an idea gets a [...]

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Laura Brandau interviewed by Tom Cagley on SPamCAST

August 11, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

I recently had the opportunity to participate in Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement Cast as an interviewee about business analysis. Tom puts together an excellent podcast with news from across the information technology industry. In this episode, recent Bridging the Gap interviewee Pat Ferdinandi shares an essay about morphing our careers when we can [...]

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How to Start a Business Analyst Career — eBook published

July 7, 2009 by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

I’m excited to announce that without further ado, I’ve published How to Start a Business Analyst Career, an eBook to help professionals become business analysts.
If you’ve been following my posts on the eBook, you know that the idea for the book crystallized after I received several email and LinkedIn requests looking for information and advice [...]

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