DAY ONE is The First Day of our Free 7-Day Learning Event Open to All Business Analysts We’ll teach you core BA skills and everything else you need to know to build your own personal BA career roadmap. You do not require any previous knowledge
Updated: See our latest video: Creating a Requirements Document Using ChatGPT ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize how we do our jobs as business analysts completely. There will be profound changes in our profession in the next few years
Business analysts can find themselves on projects that deliver many different types of solutions. Most business analysis training programs do not address this aspect of our jobs, yet, it makes such a big difference in the way we do our analysi
Have you ever been on a project where you felt that you didn t have the knowledge or experience you needed to execute your analysis work properly? If you have, then there is a good chance that the BA process you ve learned in the past has broke
Interviewing for a new role can be a stressful experience for many of us, but there are things you can do to improve your chances of passing the interview with flying colors. Rishi and I recently sat down for a mock interview where Rishi talked
Agile software development is one of the most widely misunderstood concepts in the IT industry. This episode contains my discussion with Dean Kulaweera during his #TechTalks interview on LinkedIn live. We start the discussion off with some basi
Watch this episode on YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1CKGjzPJDMA big part of the learning you do comes from the questions that other students in your class will ask. This is a critical element we’ve included in BA Fundamenta
Watch this episode on YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/HxCEckdIT3E We’ve had an overwhelming response to the BA Fundamentals course that we recently opened for free.Hundreds of our members are now taking the course and asking very good follo
Watch this episode on YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/LM-LZaH5ngkI’ve decided to release our BA Fundamentals course for FREE on March 23rd. This course was originally scheduled for release on March 31st and was planned to be a paid course.W
The first element of your career strategy is yourself. What do you bring to the table for your current and future potential employer(s), and what is it that you want for your own career? In this episode, we dive into the questions that you shou
Without a solid career strategy, you’re putting yourself at risk of wasting the time, energy, and money that you put into your career-related actions. The purpose of a career strategy is to give you a clear path to your goal and to help you m
In the last episode, you learned about the top 3 sources of stress that BAs face. In this episode, I focus on the top three sources skills that you should be pursuing to kick your BA career into the fast lane. My goal for this episode is to hel
When you first start your BA career, your stress levels are naturally going to be higher because you’re less experienced. Reducing your stress levels should be a key goal you work towards to help you achieve career fulfillment. In this episod
You’re going to spend the majority of your waking hours working at your job. It only makes sense to spend that time doing work that improves the overall quality of your life. Career fulfillment is perhaps the most important subject to consider
Depending on your BA career strategy, you will need to specialize in either a domain, or a technology, or both. In this lesson you will learn how to decide which is best for you.Visit LEARN.BA and sign up for free to watch the video lesson acc
You should follow the career development plan based on the type of BA you want to be. In this lesson I introduce you to the categories of BA skills.Visit LEARN.BA and sign up for free to watch the video lesson accompanying this audio lesson.V
There are there general BA archetypes: BPA, BA, and BSA. This lesson introduces you to these three archetypes, and provides you with some guidance on how to choose the best archetype for you.Visit LEARN.BA and sign up for free to watch the vid
Employers typically hire junior business analysts into a role where they are supporting existing solutions (category 3), and expect them to work their way into solution delivery (category 2), and eventually into project funding (category 1). Th
Now that you’ve understood the 3 main sets of activities that the BA profession is centered around, you can dive a bit deeper to gain an understanding of the things you will be expected to do, and the deliverables you will be expected to produc
The IIBA and the PMI have their own definitions of business analysis. In this lesson you will learn a very simple and easy-to-understand definition of business analysis that makes it more clear what a business analyst does in their day-to-day