I’ve been busy recently with marketing and preparing for the IIBA UK conference. I’ve also been invited to be part of a ‘mentor committee’ along with Doug Goldberg, Linda Erzah and Laura Brandau to support an online Study Group. This initiative is being steered by David Maynard who has invested a lot of time in [...] Read more »
Free video walkthrough of Foundations for Requirements Development and Management
EBG Consulting, whose eLearning course I have recommended for those new to business analysis (read more), have recently released a video introduction to their course. It gives you an idea of who the course is for, the type of content and a preview of the course ‘look and feel’ (which I think you should find [...] Read more »
Free Foundations of Business Analysis ‘taster’ webinar
ESI International, whose eLearning course I have recommended for those new to business analysis (read more), have recently announced a free webinar that provides a ‘taste’ of their classroom equivalent course. If you’re interested in the course then I recommend you sign up to the webinar. If you decide to sign up for the course, [...] Read more »
FREE eBook on becoming a business analyst is here
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 it [...] Read more »
Business Process Modelling – the basics
This article explains why you should produce a business process model, what they are and how we can produce them. Business process models are important for a number of reasons: provides a business context for the project assists in identifying requirements establishes a shared understanding of end to end process(es) between all stakeholders across business [...] Read more »
Why should you become a business analyst?
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 successful [...] 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 »
Become a successful business analyst eBook
The last couple of months have been interesting for me on various fronts: My ‘trial’ mentoring programme with Ify (see Ify’s blog) has continued. It’s not been as rapid as I or probably he would like. However, our expectations were perhaps a little unrealistic based on spending no more than a couple of hours mentoring [...] Read more »
