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 provider [...] Read more »
Professional Development
If you want to progress your career as a business analyst, there are many paths to choose from. Finding out your strengths and weaknesses is where you should start. Once you know the gaps in your knowledge and experience you must also decide your direction. This is where an experienced mentor can accelerate your career progress (read more here). Read these articles for more help..
Insiders Guide to Core Techniques is now available for FREE!
I promised I was going to make it available for NOTHING and now here it is. Before you click the link and sign up, make me one promise: You will get the full benefit by contributing to the course community. If you would like to ask a question; share an experience or answer a question [...] Read more »
Why everyone should have a mentor
I’ve written the following article for BA Connections, the IIBA newsletter. It’s coming out in June but I wanted to give you a sneak preview: In this article, I’d like to explain why I think mentoring can be so valuable in helping you through the professional development minefield. I will share a story to illustrate [...] Read more »
It Didn’t Start Out This Way. One minute I was…..
….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, I [...] Read more »
Accelerate past your professional development obstacles
There are many obstacles that get in your way in trying to achieve your goals as a business analyst. Your goal could simply be getting the best out of your stakeholders in tomorrow’s workshop. You might be thinking longer term about using a new technique you’ve read about such as a swimlane diagram for modeling [...] Read more »
Four tips your mentor WILL share with you
This post is by way of an introduction to the potential of mentoring and also to one of my online ‘colleagues’ in the virtual BA Community, Doug Goldberg. Doug and I have been providing a mentoring service independently on a fairly informal basis over the last year or so. It’s been an interesting and beneficial [...] Read more »
Becoming a Business Analyst Tales – Moving to the dark side!
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 but [...] Read more »
Becoming a business analyst – assessing your competence gap
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) to [...] Read more »
How to Choose the Best E-Learning Vendor
As I stated on my last post, I’ve been researching various eLearning vendors. Scott Punk who is the Global Brands Director at ESI International was good enough to offer the following article to explain how to assess high quality eLearning. I think it’s a concise, clear article that I will be using as a checklist [...] Read more »
