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How do you achieve your BA professional development goals?

Here are the questions we looked at in this video:
– Why do we need professional development?
– What are some examples of professional goals for BA?
– How do you set/come up with the objectives. Alone, together senior colleague/mentor, manager…
– How do you achieve your goals?
– What do you do when you are stopped?
– What are some ways to overcome the barriers in achieving goals?

What if the Business Analyst is not a Techie?

This is what we tackled in this video:

• What is the problem if I am not a techie?
•  Ideas on how do deal with different situations in which the “techie” part may come up

Is the Business Analyst a Techie?

There are different perspectives that we tackled into this video:

• Who is the end user and why the Business Analyst needs to match their knowledge areas
• Why do we need to have technical knowledge and how much? When is it enough?

Is the Business Analyst a Leader?

There are different perspectives that we tackled into this video:

• The BA in a formal leadership position
• Informal BA leader – servant leader
• Manage your own self as a BA in a leading position
• Every person in the team can be in a leading position

What is Analysis Paralysis?

Today we focused on Analysis Paralysis

• What is Analysis Paralysis?
• What is actually behind it?
• Examples of BA situations in which this may appear
• What to do before starting working on something
• Accept a decision vs keep coming back to the reasons you made that decision

Do BAs and QAs work together?

Today we focused on the relationship between BAs and QAs.

• How much do they work together?
• How do they help each other?
• How much do they challenge each other?
• Where do conflicts appear?
• The BA, QA and Dev “love triangle”

How to make the BA needs heard

These are the topics we tackled today:

• Be aware of your need and then state it as a request
• Be responsible of the follow up
• How to deal with a No
• Ask other BAs if they share the need
• Make presentations
• Establish processes

How do we define effectiveness in writing specifications?

Are you a BA? Here are a few questions to ask yourself:

• How do you know that the specification you wrote was effective?
• Do you measure that somehow?
• Are you interested in knowing how effective your specifications are?

When is the communication between Business Analyst and Developers successful?

You don’t want to miss this one! A topic always alive.

How do you deal with conflicting stakeholders expectations?

How to successfully close a meeting

How to successfully run a meeting

How do we prepare for a successful meeting?