BA BLOCKS for Business Analysis Professionals

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 about the BA profession to join. Just register, and we’ll [...]

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, and this episode is our first step towards embracing the new world that is coming to […]

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 analysis work to produce business requirements and specifications. In this episode, I define COTS and […]

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 broken down because it s not comprehensive enough to prepare you [...]

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 to us about his experiences and skills. In this interview, […]

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 basic definitions and then we move quickly into answering the following questions. • 03:16 – Can you explain […]

Watch this episode on YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1CKGjzPJDM A 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 Fundamentals learning model. We’ve now re-opened enrollment for the course and are relying on the honor system to make our [...]

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 follow-up questions about the course materials and getting the answers they need to get a solid understanding of the BA [...]

Watch this episode on YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/LM-LZaH5ngk I’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. Why? Self-isolation is the best thing you can do to protect yourself right now, and I want you [...]

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 should be considering about the value that you bring to your […]