August 18, 2010 – 4:47 pm –
Every day more and more BA’s I speak with are faced with the challenge of working with team members and business stakeholders that are geographically dispersed. For today’s post I wanted to share an excerpt from Barbara Carkenord’s book, Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis. Below are two topics, time zone differences and nationality and cultural [...]
June 2, 2010 – 2:42 pm –
B2T Trainining’s South African partner, IndigoCube, has become the first business in the country to be accredited for the new South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) National Certificate in Business Analysis. The full press release can be read here.
April 13, 2010 – 9:01 am –
Barbara Carkenord, Co-founder and Chief Curriculum Strategist, was interviewed for an episode of the Requirements Unplugged Podcast to share her thoughts on how requirements definition is crucial to the success of any application modernization initiative.
Kupe Kupersmith, Director of Client Solutions, was interviewed by Laura Brandenburg, Bridging the Gap, to discuss his views on the challenges [...]
April 2, 2010 – 9:50 am –
The Business Analysis Forum (BAF) is the official conference of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) .
BAF 2010 is the first inclusive, cross-specialty conference for all aspects of Business Analysis. Ensure you see the big picture: How Enterprise Analysis, Business Rules and Business Process are all related to BA and each other. Designed to help [...]
March 31, 2010 – 9:15 am –
Tom Davenport (”Make Better Decisions,” Harvard Business Review, Nov. 2009) states, “In recent years decision makers in both the public and private sectors have made an astounding number of poor calls.” I don’t think you can disagree with that. In her paper, “Senior Business Analysts are Strategic Decision Makers”, Barbara Carkenord makes the case that [...]
March 8, 2010 – 10:48 am –
Start with the art of the one-on-one encounter; add in strategies for interviewing, maximizing meetings and presentations; then finish off with making the most of social interactions. All together you get How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Presenting Your Ideas, Persuading Your Audience, and Perfecting Your Image, a resource to help you succeed in any [...]
January 5, 2010 – 9:28 am –
2009 was a tough year in many ways. If you were not personally impacted by losing your job or being furloughed, you most likely knew one or more close family and friends that were impacted.
September 22, 2009 – 8:02 pm –
Most of us out there today are up against tight deadlines. I usually sit in my office on Friday singing the line from a Beatles song…”8 days a week.” I wish I had 8 days some weeks. Yes, it can be frustrating trying to fit it all in. We have to be thinking of better ways to approach [...]
May 13, 2009 – 7:59 am –
When writing the title of this post I started to sing “How low can you go…How low can you go?” I told you that so I am not the only one with that song stuck in my head.
On to the blog post. Yesterday, I had a meeting with the technical lead for the project [...]
April 27, 2009 – 7:46 am –
When I first started attending concerts lighters were all the rage. The lights went down and on certain songs everyone would bust out their Bic lighter to illuminated the room to set a mood. Well, for a number of reasons lighters are not in everyone’s pocket at concerts these days. Do you think that stopped concert [...]
Jonathan Kupersmith, CBAP, 