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It’s a New World for the BA: We Need to Grow up Fast!

It’s a New World for the BA: We Need to Grow up Fast!

In many organizations, culture and conventional wisdom make it difficult for the BA to break out of mostly tactical roles within projects.  However, in many ways, the future competitiveness of your organization (and consequently of your future employment) depends on it! So don’t blink or you will miss out on the best BA opportunity of your career.

The Gale-Like Market Forces

In the first decade of the 21 st century, as the profession of business analysis was just coming of age, the global econo...

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Why Good Isn’t Good Enough: The Global State of Business Analysis, Part 2

Part 1 of “Why Good Isn’t Good Enough: The Global State of Business Analysis” provided the key highlights and conclusions of a survey of more than 1,600 business analysts and others involved in business analysis activities in both public and private organizations around the world.  This second installment takes an in-depth look at study survey recipients’ responses to questions about business...

Facilitation Top 5

As any instructor will tell you, one of the best things about teaching is learning from your students.  It happens in some way, big or small, every time you get in front of people who are expecting to hear how to do it “right.” 

Of course, there is no “right” a lot of the time.  In my classes, for example, I instruct and inform, but I also facilitate discussions about ...