IIBA

I’m writing this post to share my recent good news.
I’ve recently accepted the post of president of the UK Chapter of the IIBA.
If I’m honest, I was reluctant as I am feeling stretched rather thin whilst I hold down a job, deliver online training and try to squeeze in time with my wife and daughter.
However, [...]

The launch event of the IIBA Midlands chapter was held on Monday, 10th May.
It was a great success with a big turnout from the local BA community, an impressive venue (provided by Capital One) with excellent food kindly supplied by Capital One.
Penny Pullan facilitated a lively discussion on career development for BA’s and has captured [...]

I’ve been working on making IIBA (UK chapter) events available across the UK.
There are well established and very successful events being run in London so, in response to demand from the community,  we have been piloting setting up events and a real presence across the UK.
We have started with the Midlands and would like to [...]

The line up for the Business Analysis Conference has been announced and is available here.
I’m not sure lineup is the correct word but I’ve just returned from Glastonbury Festival so it feels right somehow!
 It is a landmark for both the IIBA in the UK and the role of business analyst and shows the importance of [...]

I thought it might be time to blow my own trumpet again
Some of you will be new visitors to the site as you will have seen my Tip on Requirements Attributes that was submitted to the IIBA. Thanks for visiting, please have a look around and let me know what you like and [...]

You may be aware that I was applying for a position on the board in the UK IIBA chapter.
This brief post is to let you know that I won!!
I put myself forward for two posts:
Marketing & Sponsorship - I won by two votes so it was close run thing
Knowledge Management - I lost by two [...]

The IIBA UK chapter has been busy organising a BA conference in the UK for September 2009. I believe this is the first of it’s kind in the UK - if I am wrong, please let me know.
I’ve been contacted by the organisers (IRM UK) who have offered a discount of 10% to the members [...]

The 2.0 version of BABOK is due to be released by the end of the month and the senior leadership team have posted aslideshow on their blog.
It can be found here - http://blog.theiiba.org/2009/03/babok-overview.html
Immediate thoughts are that I like the fact they’ve consolidated 77 activities into 32. It was starting to look unwieldy and I find [...]

John Zachman provided an extremely entertaining introduction to the Zachman framework followed by an update on forthcoming IIBA activities from Martyn Wilson, chairman of the IIBA.
John Zachman
Many of you will have heard of John Zachman as his framework has been around for thirty five years or so. It is used for that much discussed, little [...]

I attended the November meeting of the IIBA on Wednesday of this week (26th). I have to admit that I was a little dubious as I have been to Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings of the British Computer Society (BCS) before and hadn’t found them very relevant or useful for business analysts. Apologies for the [...]