Most of you probably don’t know (or necessarily care) that I live and work in the panhandle of Texas. However, the panhandle area just got hit with a pretty good blizzard requiring me to shovel my driveway. I say “pretty good blizzard” because I grew up in North Dakota, and what passes for a blizzard [...]
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The Race to Nowhere? The question mark was on purpose. I’m wondering what all the effort is for. You know what I’m talking about: all the training, writing, conferences, blogging, mentoring……………………. Why are we doing it? It really feels like a race to nowhere. We spend an inordinate amount of time educating ourselves to improve [...]
Certificates Are For Children What is a certification really worth? Children get them for good school attendance or winning a race. Yet, numerous college institutions, and other organizations, are passing Business Analyst Certifications off as though they are equal, in some way, to the degrees they confer upon graduates. When asked whether someone should complete [...]
Should a company hire only Business Analysts? Of course not. Can a company be comprised, almost completely, of BAs? Absolutely, and it should. Nearly all of the companies I have worked for have had Business Analysts. Very few of the BAs had formal training. In fact, most were Domain Experts that naturally fell into the [...]
I need to start by saying that the BABOK® Guide v2.0 is a step in the right direction towards making the Business Analyst role as powerful and prevalent as the Project Manager role. With that disclaimer out of the way, there are 4 things you should know about the BABOK® v2.0 before purchasing it: Cost [...]