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» A Guide to the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE)

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A Guide to the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE)

Since its inception, the CPRE Foundation Level certification has evolved to become the most achieved certificate in Requirements Engineering (RE) worldwide. Right now, over 10,000 people have been certified worldwide in more than 35 countries. So what is it all about, how is it set up, what are the contents of the CPRE syllabi and how does the CPRE...

» Product owner and business analyst - how to make it fit

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Product owner and business analyst - how to make it fit

The product owner is an ideal. I have experienced this myself as product owner and business analyst in a scrum team. How many organizations have a job title that can cover the role completely? If not, is your organization ready to change in order to fit the scrum method? The organization I work in is not but it is still possible for the scrum team ...

» FEATURED: 3 Ways to Conduct Elicitation Even If You Aren’t in a Business Analyst Role

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3 Ways to Conduct Elicitation Even If You Aren’t in a Business Analyst Role

In this article, I’ll show you how you can apply three specific business analysis elicitation or requirements gathering techniques as part of facilitating all or part of a meeting even if you aren’t in a business analysis role.

» FEATURED: How to Analyze a Business Process and Close Your BA Experience Gap

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How to Analyze a Business Process and Close Your BA Experience Gap

What comes first, the business analyst or the business analyst experience? If you’ve looked at BA job postings lately, you’d probably say the experience, as most BA jobs require experience. From one perspective, you’d be correct. But from another perspective, you’d be wrong. For if every BA role requires experience, how is it that there are h...

» Tech hotshots: The rise of the IT Business Analyst

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Tech hotshots: The rise of the IT Business Analyst

The once lowly business analyst is suddenly in high demand. Here's how to work well with the ones you've got. The hottest job in IT right now might be the least "T" of them all: business analyst.

» FEATURED: The 21st Century BA: How proficient do Business Analysts need to be?

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The 21st Century BA: How proficient do Business Analysts need to be?

As businesses acknowledge the value of business analysis – the result of the absolute necessity to drive innovation through projects – they are struggling to figure out three things: (1) What are the characteristics of their current BA workforce, and how capable does their BA team need to be? (2) What is needed to build a mature BA Pract...

» Difference Between Systems Analyst and Business Analyst

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Many run into the problem of differentiating between a systems analyst and a business analyst. The differences in some organizations do not exist. In other companies, the comparison is almost an insult. Depending on the business or corporation, there are many differences. The job title is not the only thing with which to compare these two separate ...

» FEATURED: How to Mentor an Aspiring Business Analyst

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How to Mentor an Aspiring Business Analyst

You walk into your local IIBA meeting and introduce yourself to a new attendee. They ask you what seems to be one of the toughest questions in the world: “How do I become a business analyst?” Hmm… How do you become a business analyst?

» FEATURED: Using the Business Architecture in Business Analysis

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Using the Business Architecture in Business Analysis

“…The Analyst will [...] facilitate the identification, design and implementation of business and systems solutions in a rapidly growing and evolving business…” What strategic initiatives might a business analyst as described above discover, and how will they deliver the “business and systems solutions” in today’s 21st Century...

» FEATURED: 21st Century BA as Creative Leader: What’s All the Fuss About?

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21st Century BA as Creative Leader: What’s All the Fuss About?

Leadership is like genius, it is one of those concepts that is recognizable when you observe it in action, but is otherwise somewhat difficult to define. And creative leadership is even harder to define because we haven’t been focusing on it in the context of business, unless we are talking about new product development. But creativity and innovati...

» FEATURED: Business Analysts: Choosing Sides

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... it became clear to me that it was time to revisit the core role a business analyst fulfills in an organization. In my experience thus far, well over 75% of the business analysts I know report through the IT side of their organization. Of the 25% that report through the business side, most have a primary responsibility that is outside of the typ...

» FEATURED: The 21st Century BA: The Adaptive Business Analyst

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The 21st Century BA: The Adaptive Business Analyst

Employers are looking for critical thinking and an ability to adapt, invent, and reinvent; collaborate, create, and innovate; and an ability to leverage complexity to compete. Standout companies are using projects as the hotbed of creativity – so that means BAs and PMs have to step up their game. According to the 2011 CHAOS Report from The Standish...

» When Not Knowing The Answer is OK - Especially for the Business Analyst

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When Not Knowing The Answer is OK - Especially for the Business Analyst

Your meeting is underway and while you’re attentively listening to the business SME explain the detailed process for transferring a policy from one agency to another, you find yourself feverishly jotting down notes as the nuggets of information being thrown out are too juicy not to capture. Then it hits you: you have no idea what the business SME i...

» FEATURED: It’s a New World for the Business Analyst: We need to Grow up Fast!

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It’s a New World for the Business Analyst: We need to Grow up Fast!

In many organizations, culture and conventional wisdom make it difficult for the BA to break out of mostly tactical roles within projects. However, in many ways, the future competitiveness of your organization (and consequently of your future employment) depends on it! So don’t blink or you will miss out on the best BA opportunity of your career.

» FEATURED: The 21st Century BA: From Tactical Requirements Manager to Creative Leader of Innovative Change

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The 21st Century BA: From Tactical Requirements Manager to Creative Leader of Innovative Change

Welcome to the new series of articles on the BA as the 21st Century Creative Leader. It was a perfect storm. As we entered the second decade of the 21st century, we found ourselves struggling to adapt. ... It is no coincidence that the business analysis profession is taking hold to address many of the 21st century business challenges.

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