The insider’s guide… to business analysis free eLearning – some lessons learnt

The Insider’s Guide to Core techniques for successful business analysis was a great success. However, it was an experiment and there are a number of lessons that I have learnt that I want to fix before I make it available again. The number one lesson was that it should be an on demand, self study [...] Read more »

Three free courses sell out in days – almost 180 students signed up!

  Update: This course is still free but you have to sign up here.   I wrote back in October about a free course I was developing from the lessons I had learnt from my survey. I’ve now finished and launched this course just before Christmas. You will have already heard about it if you [...] Read more »

How I am using your survey results to design a free course

I’ve been very quiet of late which is mainly due to the IIBA UK Business Analysis Conference last week. I’ll give you a very brief update on the conference and explain my plans for my next training course including a free condensed course available soon. BA Conference Europe 2010 I have been very busy ensuring [...] Read more »

Announcing new products (one free!) to support professional development

In my post two days ago, I told you about the graduation of my first Mastering Use Cases class.   I also gave you the opportunity to register your interest in new products I’ll be announcing to support your professional development in the next few weeks as well as the dates for the next Mastering Use [...] Read more »

Free training to celebrate the first class of Mastering Use Cases graduating

Several weeks ago, the first intake of students finished my course – Mastering Use Cases. It was a fascinating journey for me as well as them with a few bumps along the way. I’d like to share the students’ feedback on the course followed by the improvements I will be making for the next intake. [...] Read more »

Webinar was ‘more like a best practice approach to business analysis’

Thanks to those of you who attended Tuesday night’s webinar (it was night for me anyway!) on The six essential steps to delivering your first use case model. The technology worked well and, judging by the positive reactions, everyone benefited from the webinar. There were a number of questions and I was able to respond [...] Read more »

Feedback from my test students

As the date for the course (Mastering Use Cases) approaches, I thought you would find it useful to hear from my test students. I’d like to introduce Rebecca Nord who works at University of California, Davis. Rebecca has provided me with considered and insightful feedback which has really helped me lift the quality of the [...] Read more »

Mastering Use Cases course is open for business!

The first class of my new course – Mastering Use Cases –  is open for students to enroll. There are only twenty places so, if you’re interested, read the course description now! Read more »

How to make eLearning that captivates

How to make eLearning that captivates?! That’s certainly an ambitious goal! But I need to make this my aim for the most successful eLearning. I will describe the pros and cons of eLearning when compared with classroom learning. I will also discuss what I see as the characteristics of good eLearning. Finally, if you like [...] Read more »

How Business Analyst Mentor will help your professional development in 2010

After considering all the valuable input from Business Analyst Mentor readers I described in last week’s post, I had to decide how to support the readers. It wasn’t straightforward as I have to balance the investment of my time and money, especially when you consider that I work full time and have a family! Once I had the [...] Read more »