Being a Biz Analyst

Biz Analyst Moments Retrospective: #BusinessAnalyst #lifestyle can determine ability to deliver #business #value. We all want to think we can go hardcore for ever, but as I discuss in this episode we learned this month that it is not sustainable. Also, we looked at how do we become more valuable as a BA by recapping the chicken and the egg problem, and how the BABOK teaches us how to deliver value as a BA. For the conclusion listen in, this is more important than learning any #technique!

Biz Analyst Moments Mindset: Impact analysis for your career, and why/why not would you want to change? The interesting thing about career changes, small or large, is that they WILL have an impact on the rest of your life. Impacts on your life can be big, medium, or small, but one thing is for sure they are inescapable. Even if you are not willing to look at the impact of a career change does not mean you will not experience it. How do you do the impact analysis, and how do you determine whether you should allow it to happen? Listen in!

Biz Analyst Moments lead with soft skills not the 9 to 5: scope of our careers, what does it include? We often consider the 9 to 5 and the string of positions we have held over the years to be what defines our careers. Today we explore the reality of defining scope for our career, I think what you hear will surprise and enlighten you to what it means to make a career change on your whole life! Free training: http://bit.ly/BPfreetraining. The Business Analyst Blueprint: http://bit.ly/BAblueprint

Biz Analyst Moments Case Study: How to choose the techniques to learn first in your career! No one has time, money or any other resource to spend on learning and getting good at every #BusinessAnalyst #technique. There are 48 techniques that #IIBA Global believes you need to have an understanding of, but even they do not expect you to be perfect in your execution of all of them. How do you decide then on which ones to learn and get really good at? How do you know what techniques you need education on? How do you know what techniques to get practical experience actually using? These are the questions to be answered in this episode. Press play now to get the answers. Free training: http://bit.ly/BPfreetraining. The Business Analyst Blueprint: http://bit.ly/BAblueprint

Biz Analyst Moments Mindset: Conceptual thinking as part of a solution to the chicken and the egg problem! We are all familiar with the two frustrations of making a career change. The first is the actual chicken and the egg problem which is do I do experience first or get a position first. The other related issue is do I get experience or education first, obviously experience is a direct route to a position--hard to get without at least some education on the topic. Both are issues that new BAs struggle with a lot, as it feels like everything needs to happen all at once, but how does everything fit together? why is each part important? who can help me with each part? These are the questions we will be answering with the use of conceptual thinking as the underlying competency for this week's mindset episode. Answering these questions will then open the doors to rationalize doing one over the other. Learn to assess your own situation by pressing play! Free training:http://bit.ly/BPfreetraining. The Business Analyst Blueprint: http://bit.ly/BAblueprint

How to move your career forward: How to get out of the chicken and the egg problem in a BA career. The issue for many new Business Analysts is how do I get experience without a position? Or how do I get a position without experience? A very common and frustrating problem for which there are 3 major solutions I have heard to be successful. The last one I have a solution you can start implementing September 18, 2019. Free training:http://bit.ly/BPfreetraining. The Business Analyst Blueprint: http://bit.ly/BAblueprint

Biz Analyst Moments BABOK Talk: The BABOK details how a Business Analyst delivers value for an initiative. I find when I am talking to people studying the BABOK they sometimes get confused once they see the table on predictive vs. adaptive approaches for the task Plan Business Analysis Approach, in the knowledge area Planning and Monitoring. They begin talking about Project Management, and the different approaches to managing tasks and resources. Although, that is not the purpose of that table...so today we dive into the purpose of that table and how to really see how a BA plans for delivering value to the team so they can execute on their deliverables.

Biz Analyst Moments Retrospective: Realities of being a business analyst. I was looking at the 2 episodes I did for the final episode of each week this month and I noticed a theme of reality. I believe that with any career change reality is the hardest part to deal with. As many of you know I started my own career change, and the road has been long. And reality is like a poor friendship that keeps coming back and slapping you silly, career change will do the same. Unfortunately, you cannot escape it. Listen now for how I have worked through many ups and downs, and kept my head high. Free training: http://bit.ly/BAblueprint

Biz Analyst Moments Mindset Retrospective: Agile mindset is a combination of many skills and mindsets. We bring together many skills or mindsets to have an Agile mindset, and two of those skills are problem solving and systems thinking that we also covered this month. I find it so interesting how to be effective in Agile requires the skills and mindsets from many different areas, and the more we unpack what is Agile the more we recognize what we see as skills or mindsets we started learning in kindergarten. During this episode I give my opinion on why I believe all 3 mindsets are important to your success as a Business Analyst. Listen to the end of the episode where I explore this idea of mindsets and skills being interconnected, and why this is so important to your success as a BA regardless of whether you are in an Agile environment right now or not. Free training link: http://bit.ly/BAblueprint