April 2, 2007 – 9:00 am –
The Atlanta IIBA Chapter meeting this week focused on Enterprise Analysis, specifically business cases. Pamela Robinson of Financial Voyages (http://www.teamfv.com/), gave a great presentation on business case development. Her organization has developed a Business Case Development Framework to help organizations improve their business case development process. It was great to hear another successful professional talk [...]
February 19, 2007 – 9:00 am –
The January meeting of the Atlanta IIBA was excellent. We had about 40 attendees and a great presentation. The presenter was Ryan English from SpiDynamics http://www.spidynamics.com/
Ryan spoke about web application security vulnerabilities and pointed out that requirements documents should always include security requirements. These requirements are part of the category called Quality of Service requirements [...]
December 19, 2006 – 10:46 pm –
Be sure to check the IIBA web site, for the dates and locations of the 2007 IIBA Certification exams. With locations in four countries on three continents in 12 different cities many BAs will have the opportunity to certify in the coming year.
http://www.theiiba.org/content.asp?ContentId=558
If you are interested in taking the exam, I recommend that you start working on your application [...]
December 15, 2006 – 2:05 pm –
Well, the results are in and 15 of us can now refer to ourselves as CBAPs!! Certified Business Analysis Professionals through the IIBA. I am proud to say that three of us here at B2T are in this first group: Jonathan "Kupe" Kupersmith, Kevin Quilliams, and myself, Barbara Carkenord. We are also proud to have [...]
November 15, 2006 – 11:02 am –
I am just getting back to work after sitting for the first IIBA Certification Exam! I wanted to share my experience with those of you who may be considering applying for this certification. The exam was given in Orlando, Florida to coincide with the World Congress for Business Analysis conference. 16 BAs were accepted to [...]
October 30, 2006 – 9:00 am –
One of the knowledge areas included in the IIBA BABOK is Enterprise Analysis. I have noticed that when BAs review this knowledge area for the first time, many exclaim "BAs don't do this!". Honestly I must say that I had the same reaction the first time that I looked at the detailed tasks outlined. The knowledge area includes things like [...]
September 18, 2006 – 9:13 am –
The first opportunity to take the new IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) exam is November 10, 2006, in Orlando, Florida. The announcement was made on the new IIBA web site on Friday, September 15, 2006. The eagerly awaited exam will not be a pilot. It will be the first opportunity to obtain a CBAP award from the [...]
August 21, 2006 – 9:25 am –
The International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA) has released a new version of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge - referred to as version 1.6. It is the result of many hours of our core team and sub-committees’ time.
This book (about 300 pages) contains significant content in most of the knowledge areas and incorporates some of the [...]
May 15, 2006 – 9:18 am –
As the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge core team debates requirements categories, a lot of interesting questions are coming up about what is a requirement. Our definition, which is derived from the IEEE definition is "A requirement is a condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective." Does a [...]
May 8, 2006 – 10:05 am –
This question recently came up in an IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge core team meeting. Everyone's first reaction was no, or of course not. It is an AS IS. I think that most people would say no because an "AS IS" is a currently implemented process or procedure. This brings up an interesting question: are requirements [...]
