January 31, 2008 – 9:58 am –
We, B2T, often get career advice questions coming in to our blog. They mostly relate specifically on how to enter the BA profession and advance once in it. I thought you all would be interested in an article I just read, "It Worked For Me: Career Advice from Top CIOs" by Martha Heller on CIO.com.
CIOs from [...]
December 10, 2007 – 9:00 am –
Over the last few months I have been in more discussions than I can count about the role of the business analyst, project manager vs. business analyst, where the business analyst fits in on an agile team, and which roles are needed to make a successful team. They have been wonderful passionate conversations. With each discussion I kept coming [...]
November 12, 2007 – 7:30 am –
Even though development tools and techniques have improved drastically I still hear from corporate application users that the systems their IT department built or purchased for them lack usability. We all know that projects are still failing or challenged based on the triple constraint (Time, Budget, Scope). I wonder if the addition of a fourth [...]
September 24, 2007 – 1:41 pm –
As Business Analysts we rarely have formal authority over anyone we work with on our projects. To give our teams the best chance for success we have to work collaboratively with all of our stakeholders.
I just read an article on CIO.com that I think you will enjoy. In their article, "How Good Are You At [...]
September 17, 2007 – 9:00 am –
I attended a Certified ScrumMaster training class this year delivered by Lithespeed. The class was very valuable, and I want to share a tool, trade-off matrix, to help set customer and team expectations. In my opinion this is a tool that should be used on all projects early in the planning stage. Here is an example [...]
August 6, 2007 – 9:00 am –
The international BA is not as glamorous as the International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers, but it is exciting. For a number of reasons, many BAs are interacting with customers and team members across the globe. One of the keys to success is to understand and sometimes embrace the culture of the people with whom you are interacting. [...]
July 23, 2007 – 2:09 pm –
The main program at July's Greater Atlanta IIBA chapter meeting was about User Flow Diagrams. The presenter was Carol Kilpatrick, modeling and design specialist, from Delta Technology. She gave a great presentation on how she documents work flow diagrams to focus on user actions. There were two points Carol made that apply to all documents we produce as Business Analysts.
1) [...]
July 2, 2007 – 9:00 am –
For years developers have had online communities where they can keep up with the thoughts and insights from the gurus of their discipline. This has been a phenomenal resource for developers giving them access to unlimited knowledge helping them build better applications. Now Business Analysts have an online community called Catalyze.
I'd like to invite you to check [...]
June 11, 2007 – 9:00 am –
In May 2007 I attended the Project Summit/BusinessAnalystWorld conference in Washington, DC. I sat in on a presentation called “Can the BA Save the World?”, presented by a fellow CBAP, Marcos Ferrer. Marcos is a facilitator, planner & system implementer with over 30 years experience in computing and over 22 years experience in business analysis.
When I saw [...]
May 3, 2007 – 4:11 pm –
B2T Training Tip
If you made it through the application process then you are half way home. There is no need to get overly anxious about the exam. But, since you are probably like me, you are still very anxious. I hope the Q & A below helps relieve some of that anxiety.
Q & A
Question: How many [...]
Jonathan Kupersmith, CBAP®, 