Between You and Your Business Analysis Career
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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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I often get questions about business analysis training and how to select the right training course. Here are some of the recommendations I often give: Have a clear goal about what you are trying to learn and why you want to learn it. Seek out opportunities where you can build knowledge and experience together. Find [...]
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