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 take you on your learning journey. Summarized Outline of the 7 days: Day 1: The Agile Business Analysis Process Day 2: People, Processes, and Digital Products Day 3: Use Cases, User Stories, Wireframes Day 4: Business Rules, Scenarios, State Models Day 5: Databases, Entity Models, SQL Day 6: Adva ..read more

ChatGPT has the potential to completely revolutionize how we do our jobs as business analysts.  There will be profound changes coming to our profession in the next few years, and this episode is our first step towards embracing the new world that is coming to us. Join our Community (BA Spaces) https://bablocks.com/membership Become a High Performing BA (BAPC) https://bablocks.com/courses/ Podcast https://bablocks.com/podcast/ Watch our exploration of ChatGPT on our YouTube Channel: Gaining Domain Knowlege Using OpenAI ChatGPT User Stories Using OpenAi ChatGPT The post 9: The 4 Ways Chat ..read more

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 custom build solutions, and provide you with a few good examples of how delivering each type of solution affects the way you do business analysis for your clients/employers. This episode is just a small part of the conversation that we had in a 1-hour liv ..read more

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 for the wide variety of projects & situations that we face in our profession. Book in your free 30-minute one-on-one tutorial with me and I ll walk you through the 6 business analysis processes that you can rely on to execute almost any type of work you re assigned to. Book Your Session Her ..read more

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, I played the role of the hiring manager and asked the types of questions that interviewers would normally ask of a senior business analyst. INTERVIEW QUESTIONS WE COVERED Tell us a little about your self. Can you talk a little about a project where things have not gone so well? What is your ap ..read more

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 what a business analyst is? 04:28 What is agile? 06:13 Most organizations are not a good fit for pure agile. 09:51 Less than 5% of business analyst roles are pure agile. 11:48 What is hybrid-agile and is it effective? 14:19 Why do companies claim to be p ..read more

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 employer in the short-run and the direction that you may want your career to take in the medium to long term. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY If you’re an aspiring or practicing business analyst, you should consider joining the BA BLOCKS community. This is the place where you can get your questions answered an ..read more

Without a solid career strategy, you’re putting yourself at risk of wasting the time, energy, and money that you put into your career-related actions.   The purpose of a career strategy is to give you a clear path to your goal and to help you make sure that you are achieving your goal faster. In this episode, I lay out the three major elements you need to think about when formulating your BA career strategy. The goal of this episode is to get you in the right frame of mind for the next set of episodes where we’ll dive into the details of each element. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY If you’re an ..read more

In the last episode, you learned about the top 3 sources of stress that BAs face. In this episode, I focus on the top three sources skills that you should be pursuing to kick your BA career into the fast lane. My goal for this episode is to help you focus all of your time and attention on the things that will help you accelerate your career development. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY If you re an aspiring or practicing business analyst, you should consider joining the BA BLOCKS community. This is the place where you can get your questions answered and to get the support that you need to build a mean ..read more

When you first start your BA career, your stress levels are naturally going to be higher because you’re less experienced.  Reducing your stress levels should be a key goal you work towards to help you achieve career fulfillment.  In this episode, you will learn about the top 3 stressors that most business analysts experience, and gain a clear insight on how to start reducing the stress that comes from these three sources. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY If you’re an aspiring or practicing business analyst, you should consider joining the BA BLOCKS community and start connecting with ot ..read more