Category: Business Analyst Career

My Start to Become a Business Analyst Many, many years ago, while working on an application for a French insurance company, I read a business rule that stated: “We charge a $2.00 fee for each new policy, extension, amendment, or cancellation unless the agent reduced...

This week's Business Insider features an article by Mara Leighton with the good-news title, “15 skills LinkedIn says are most likely to get you hired in 2020 — plus the affordable online courses you can take to build them”.  The article, published April 13, 2020 is...

In 2013, Kupe Kupersmith wrote an article in the BA Times Business Analysis Is Dead, Long Live Business Analysis. He comes to the conclusion that “… it (business analysis) is dead as we knew it.” In another, more recent article in the Modern Analyst (Top 10 Trends in...

We often receive requests from people seeking advice on how to become a business analyst. As you will see, breaking into business analysis — like any other profession — is a non-trivial undertaking. Learning How to Learn Better For starters, I suggest...

We unabashedly admit that we developed BASE (Business Analyst’s Skills Evaluation) to sell training. However, visitors to the website found several additional uses for this versatile tool that we wanted to share. Who knows, you might come up with the next great...

Test Your Business Analysis Skills Our Business Analysis Skills Evaluation (BASE) is a...

Studying versus Learning Business Analysis There are two fundamental ways to learn how to do anything: the academic (theoretical) path and the apprenticeship (mentoring/coaching) path. Whether you choose the academic or apprenticeship route, acquiring any ability...

Operational Business Analysis is heavily used at the application level by Agile teams, by developers performing business analysis activities, and by administrators of packaged soctware.

Strategic Business Analysis (aka “Enterprise Analysis”) applies the tools of techniques germane to business analysis to an entire organization or any subset thereof. It is an essential step in intiating positive change within an organization.

Tactical Business Analysis is applied within a project to ensure that the product is well defined and understood both by those who need the produce and by those who build/buy the product. In an Agile environment, it is used primarily during release, iteration, and sprint planning sessions.

Growing Business Analysts What seeds do you as an organization have to plant to grow strong business analysts? Or, if you are an aspiring business analyst, what soil is best suited for feeding you the nutrients you need to grow? When should you be planted and how...

Whereas both project managers (PM) and business analysts (BA) need negotiation, planning, and people skills, the PM role delegates and empowers the people while the BA has to interview and understand them.