Advance Your Business Analysis Career
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Today I’d like to introduce you to someone super special here at Bridging the Gap. Her name is Marci Dahms and she underpins so much of what we do here. She’s been involved with Bridging the Gap for two years, but you may have never come in touch with her yet! But if you’ve ever [...]
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Monday evening I met with 3 great business analysts – Ivy Nichols, Kimberley Heath, and Eric Shayne Elliot – to talk about their involvement in Launching Your Business Analysis Career. I’m going to share with you a bit of what I shared with them…because it’s really relevant to the entire Bridging the Gap community. I [...]
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Adriana Beal is offering Crafting Better Requirements to help junior, intermediate, and senior BAs kick their requirements specifications up a notch. After completing this course, you’ll be able to: Document better requirements—with more clarity and precision, and less ambiguity. Identify what details are missing from your requirements and must be specified to make them more complete. [...]
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Ever wished there was just a roadmap you could follow to start a business analyst career? We write incessantly about this topic here at Bridging the Gap, yet the most frequently asked question via the Ask a BA form is, “How do I become a business analyst?” For the last two years, I’ve tried everything [...]
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Looking for a way to brush up on your management and leadership skills with a limited training budget? Want to hear some fresh ideas about dealing with conflict, creating project success, and working on agile teams? This new teleseminar might be a great opportunity for you. Even though the summit is aimed at project management [...]
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Earlier this week, we ran a survey for Bridging the Gap newsletter subscribers, asking them for feedback on the new, weekly format with a BA Career Stepping Stone. Thank you to everyone who participated…your input will help us shape the direction of Bridging the Gap in 2011. I’ll be sharing the results with our regular [...]
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It might seem like we can’t stop talking about what it takes to become a business analyst here at Bridging the Gap. What started as a small side project about two years ago, when I started writing How to Start a Business Analyst Career, has transformed into a mission. There is so much talent knocking [...]
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It’s new years’ eve (well, it still is here in Denver, Colorado). And I’m reflecting on what a wonderful year it has been. Thanks to your support, inspiration, and encouragement Bridging the Gap has grown into a community of business analysts — each helping each other. This year saw more comments, more subscribers, more contributors, [...]
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We’ve now posted over 350 posts here at Bridging the Gap, about a third of them by columnists and guest authors. Stats are always a fun thing for me. It’s interesting to see what people click on and try to figure out why those choices are made. (Much easier said than done!) When it comes [...]
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As many of you already know, this last month has left me unexpectedly without contract work. Instead of trying to find a new contract toward year-end, when I know it will be difficult if not plain impossible, I am postponing my own next-contract-search and investing this time to build some great new products for Bridging [...]
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Recently posted: How to Start a Business Analyst Career eBook – now available on Kindle and Nook!
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