Entries for the 'Career as a Business Systems Analyst' Category

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You can’t work in IT and not have watched “Office Space.” I mean, it’s a prerequisite, isn’t it? It’s like being a developer and never having heard “Code Monkey.” It’s the type of movie where you sit and nod as you laugh, recognizing it is funny because it is true. My favorite dialogue in the film is between Bob Slydell (one of the Bobs tasked w...

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» The Role of the Requirements Analyst in Driving Specialized Development Teams to Success

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I am working on a project where Development teams are divided into specialized areas called Centers of Competence. For example, one team works on Customer data, another team on Product data and validation, another works with the Shopping Cart, another with Checkout and so on. Requirements are gathered within each of these Centers of Competence and ...

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» Five New Year’s Resolutions for Requirements

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It’s that time of year, where our thoughts turn to the holidays…the holiday parties, the shopping, the lights, visiting with family! For many organizations, the end of the year tends to be quiet on the IT front, for no organization wants to risk introducing problems into their production environment at year end. So as I look back at th...

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» Coaching Football and Agile Applications: It’s Game Time

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Many business analysts and heads of industry find themselves in compromising situations. Their team is down and they can’t seem to move the business properly towards the goal. It seems your competitor across the field is always one step ahead, providing results and fan [customer] satisfaction. But how did they do it and why can’t you come back? Ga...

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» BA Careers - Is industry experience more important than Analytical skill?

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Business Analysts often delve into business requirements, gathering, understanding and documenting business processes and functions. An analytical mind and detailed information gathering are considered to be essential; one wonders though, if industry experience is a must for good business analysis skills. After all, if you knew well the ins...

Posted by: HSantanam

» Capacity review - assets planning

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Capacity review Why should Business Analysts be concerned about IT Asset Capacity planning / review - because business analysts, in my opinion, are all about optimizing business processes - in many cases, closely linked to IT. With that said, here is some food for thought: IT Asset management - One of the core principles for Infor...

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» Career Possibilities for Business Analysts-expanding your horizons

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You have achieved your short term BA goals. You want to expand your horizons and see what else is out there and how you can progress in your career and gain knowledge and keep your career up-to-date as well. What are some of the possibilities out there that won't force you to re-learn something new from scratch? Some possibilities for career and kn...

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» Learned Processes

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I know you are going to call me crazy, but I just have to let everyone know. Machines are controlling us. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. You don’t believe me? Okay, I’ll explain. People come and go in organizations. Systems tend to stay much longer. Simple enough right? Here is the kicker. When that sy...

Posted by: Seilevel

» Enter the Business Engineer

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At Mendix, we find that our customers appoint a particular kind of person to work with our products. Sometimes they’re from IT, sometimes they’re a business analyst or project manager – in any case, they practice the skills of both fields. Times are changing, departmental lines are blurring, and a new breed of business superhero has risen: the BE. ...

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» Why Should We Hire You?, Part I

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We look for the best and brightest when hiring for Requirements Analysts and Product Managers. It’s a long and difficult process with many people applying; only a fraction get through the first interview and even less are able to hang in the process as it continues. This has brought great strain to our company: as we expand we simply aren’t able to...

Posted by: Seilevel

» Mendioms for Business Analysts

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A Mendiom is an idiom with a Mendix twist. This is the first of a series of posts with Mendioms for different types of people. This week, we have chosen a few of our favorite Mendioms for business analysts. Business analysts are an important part of an organization’s business agility. By having the responsibility of communicating between b...

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» Being New 101

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Being a relatively new Requirements Analyst/ Business Analyst ( BA) and being new to the industry, I have been blessed with the opportunity to have mentors. Receiving direction from more experienced BA’s has definitely helped me find areas that I can improve on, while at the same time, finding my strengths and improving those too. Yet there stil...

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» 5 Steps to Improving your Career as a BA

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The community of business analysts in the United States and abroad is taking notice of their impact on the world economy. Not long ago, the idea of a business analyst was new – sitting on the border of technology and business, sharing lunch with both ‘geeks’ and ‘suits,’ and creating value with only the uncanny ability to collaborate between these ...

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» How many Business Analysts do I need on my project?

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At the beginning of almost every project (and even sometimes midway through them) we are asked to create a requirements plan and estimate the time required on tasks and the number of BAs necessary to execute it. In a later post I’ll talk about the actual plan items, but we do have a rule of thumb for how many BAs you need on a project. We have a s...

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» BA World Sydney - A review

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I went to the Business Analyst World Conference in Melbourne on the 19th and 20th of July. Like last year it was a great event. On day 1 I spent the whole day in one room (introducing speakers.) and got to listen to three very different stories. Matthew Coppola from Perth training outfit Paramount Training gave a talk on Und...

Posted by: Craig Brown

» Is Your Product Knowldege an Asset or Liability?

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There was recently an interesting post by John Mansour on the Austin PMM Forum (registration required) discussing whether Product Knowledge was an Asset or Liability to product managers. The author makes several claims about how product knowledge is a liability: “In a nutshell, the more product knowledge you have, the less product management yo...

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» “So, what do you do for a living?”: A BA/Product Manager’s guide to surviving cocktail parties

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By Jhulgan I used to dread hearing the question, “So what do you do for a living?” This was often usually asked by a family member or other acquaintances not familiar with the software development lifecycle, IT, or business processes in general. For business analysts, product managers, and other software requirements types, it’s diffic...

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» BA Careers - Domain knowledge versus analysis skills

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I've been thinking a lot recently about the value of the BA, and BA recruitment - at all levels. A common question that comes up is "Do I need to have experience in Industry X/Domain Y to work as a BA in that industry/domain?" In a nutshell: Is it like that now? Yes. Should it be like that? Probably no...

Posted by: Miles Barker

» Blurring the Lines between Business and IT

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A “What If” question for business analysts and IT professionals… What if it suddenly became very easy for someone to do both your job and their own, at the same time? If history provides any forecast for the future of IT, we are likely to see some interesting changes in the way human capital is managed – especially for those of us involved in the...

Posted by: Derek Roos

» How effective (or necessary) is a CBAP certificate for job searching?

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Hello Everyone! I am new to this community blog, and I am interested in learning more about CBAP certification as it relates to my job search. In brief, I was employed with a company for 14 years before being downsized in a mass complany layoff last year. Before the layoff, my title over my last 5 years was a Business Systems Analyst.&...

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