Oliver Harper, one of the members of the Business Analyst Mentor community, has volunteered to manage a twitter feed to spread the word on valuable BA content across the web. This would cover approaches to business analysis, guidance on techniques, case studies and anything that would help you with your professional development. There’s lots of [...] Read more »
What will Business Analyst Mentor deliver in 2012?
In 2012, I’m going to provide the community with a platform where you can really share your expertise and develop your skills. You could be doing one or both of these things, depending on the area and your experience. For example, if you have pursued certification you will be able to share your ‘journey’ and [...] Read more »
Reflections on 2011 for Business Analyst Mentor
In the next two posts, I will reflect briefly on what Business Analyst Mentor has achieved this year and the plans for next year. More importantly, I will check progress against Business Analyst Mentor’s original mission. The mission (which I haven’t always defined too clearly) is to leverage the knowledge and experience of the whole [...] Read more »
Look out for the new mentors ‘top tips’ on LinkedIn
I’ve been looking for ways for the new mentors to start sharing their expertise other than through one to one mentoring. When Joan Davis suggested that we send out a weekly, bite size piece of advice on LinkedIn, I loved the idea. If you look at the Business Analyst Mentor company page, you’ll see the [...] Read more »
How can the new mentors help with CBAP or ISEB certification?
The new 'Founder' Business Analyst Mentors met for the first time last Sunday (13/11/2011). There's a couple more people who may be joining but this is the main group who will be working with me to help the BA community with their professional development. It's an exciting time for me as this will enable me [...] Read more »
Building Business Capability Conference 2011 – my report
I spoke on use cases at the Building Business Capability Conference 2011 in Florida in the US which ran from 1st to 3rd November, 2011. I want to share my impressions from the Conference in this post. This should help those of you who didn’t attend know what they missed out on and whether you [...] Read more »
The problem with BA Tools Part 1
The failure of MS Word as a BA tool As BAs, one of our primary goals is to improve the productivity and effectiveness of the businesses we work in, yet many of us are using tools that are detrimental to our productivity and restrict our ability for effective information management, communication and stakeholder engagement. This [...] Read more »
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Interview from a mentee’s perspective
Have you ever wanted to know what BPMN is all about? Pete Cohen certainly did and, fortunately, one of the mentors, Mike Eckersley as been experimenting with BPMN ever since it first appeared in 2005. That’s one of the benefits of having access to a pool of expert BA’s – if you want to know [...] Read more »
Introducing the first new mentor
It’s a Sunday morning and I shouldn’t be working but I couldn’t help myself sharing the good news. I’m very pleased to announce that Nick De Voil has been successful in his application to join the group of new BA Mentors. Doug Goldberg will be introducing you to Nick very soon. There’s too much to [...] Read more »
How Business Analyst Mentor can become an expert in all aspects of BA – Part 2
Part 2 – the secret ingredients How can we achieve the vision I shared with you a few weeks back (read more about the vision here)? You need many BA’s. In fact, a network of BA’s with a broad range of experience and skills exposed to different organisations from different countries. (You also need BA’s [...] Read more »
