Tweet Each time a mentor engages with a mentee, there exists a delicate balance between several factors that occur in the mentoring relationship. It’s important for the health of the parties involved that the mentor find and adjust to these balances as the situation dictates at any given time. Let’s take a look at a [...] Read more »
How Business Analyst Mentor can become an expert in all aspects of BA – Part 1
Tweet Part 1 – the vision I want Business Analyst mentor to be much, much smarter. I want it to help more people in achieving their professional development goals as business analysts. Business analysis is a broad skill set with many different niches and specialties. The expectations and scope of the role varies by company, [...] Read more »
What’s in a name? Is it essential to have the Business Analyst job title?
Tweet Recently, I met the attendees of an ISEB training course (ISEB is an international BA certification for BA’s – http://www.bcs.org/category/109115) to talk about the Professional Development Mentoring programme (read about the programme here – http://businessanalystmentor.com/professional-development-mentoring-programme/) and get some market feedback. (they were attending a course run by Metadata Training – they are a training [...] Read more »
It Didn’t Start Out This Way. One minute I was…..
Tweet ….minding my own business and the next I had become a mentor. Hello, my name is Doug Goldberg and Alex has asked that I start blogging on his site about something I’m passionate about – preferably revolving around business analysis. He didn’t exactly say what I should be passionate about though. Fortunately for him, [...] Read more »
FREE eBook on becoming a business analyst is here
Tweet This is just a quick post to let you know that I have finished (at last) the first version of my eBook. As you’ll see here I see this very much as my first version – please download the book and get stuck in. Let friends and colleagues who would be interested know about [...] Read more »
Why should you become a business analyst?
Tweet The following is taken from the eBook for Becoming a New Business Analyst. Have a read of this and let me know your thoughts… Why should you become a business analyst? This is a good question as you need to know your motivations are right before you invest time and money in becoming a [...] Read more »
Becoming a Business Analyst Tales – Moving to the dark side!
Tweet I met Pinal Patel last year when we worked together in a startup. For three months or so we had some fun with our first experience of Agile methods and a wide variety of working hours. Since then, we have gone our separate ways but have kept in touch. Pinal was originally a developer [...] Read more »
Becoming a business analyst – assessing your competence gap
Tweet I have recently been in discussion with Adriana Beal, an experienced business analyst, based in New York. She has contributed a stimulating and important article to the IIBA blog on ComputerWorldUK hosted by yours truly. I asked Adriana if she would be able to provide a similar article to help BA’s (or wannabe BA’s) [...] Read more »