Just a quick update on our goal for 50 BAs in 2012. While we’re still waiting for our very first entrant for the 2012 Registry, we’ve added 2 BAs to the 2011 Registry, helped many rethink their transition plans in last week’s webinar, and are taking registrations for our next Launch Your Business Analysis Career course. Who [...]
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Just a quick update on our goal for 50 BAs in 2012. This past week, we’ve added 2 BAs to the Registry, one to 2010 and one to 2011. New BAs! Evan Wise had a varied career as an implementation manager, systems analyst and developer before applying for his first contract BA position. He leveraged our [...]
Real goals have numbers. I’ve been talking about helping BAs advance their careers for a long time. Now I’m ready to do something measurable to make a contribution to our profession. As you may have read in Monday’s post about my BHAG (that’s Big Hairy Audacious Goal – thanks JL for the correction!), I’m set on helping [...]
2011 was an amazing year for Bridging the Gap. According to Google Analytics, we had just over 200,000 unique visitors and over 550,000 page views. More importantly, we had more comments than ever (we’re averaging over 300/month now) and posts by more authors than ever before (23 total). It has been my privilege to be part of [...]
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The Bridging the Gap community has a brand new addition! I’m so excited to announce that Laura Brandenburg and her husband David welcomed a beautiful baby girl last week. Mom and baby are doing just fine. Amelia Rose Thursday, November 3, 2011 7 lbs, 7 oz, 20 1/2 inches long Laura will be on maternity [...]
It’s no secret that I’m headed out on maternity leave any day now. And, let me level with you; I’m relying on some course sales to maintain a positive cash flow that will sustain My BA Career and Bridging the Gap while I’m on leave. So I’ve decided to sweeten the deal for the recently [...]
You may not have noticed it. Or, then again, maybe you have. Over the last couple of months I have been slowly weaning myself from several day-to-day responsibilities here at Bridging the Gap to make room for Marci Dahms and several others to step in and fill my shoes during my upcoming maternity leave. I [...]
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 [...]