Being A Biz Analyst

The BABOK talk: Roles, titles, and positions What is a role? How do the tasks in the BABOK relate to your position as a Business Analyst? These are the questions we will be discussing in this episode. We will also give a way to assess, regardless of your title, just how much analysis are you actually doing, and does it truly help move your career forward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

Biz Analyst Moments: Retrospective We dive into the highlights of what happened this month! Lots of exciting learning and successes for the business! Listen in to find out more! Got ideas for the podcast? Or want to know more about the course Potential to 1st Steps? Please email me at beingabizanalyst@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

This month we dove into the value of learning from others; meaning being vulnerable enough to put ourselves out there, and say I need help on steps to take to be successful. Listen to my journey, and consider what you did you learn, and how you too can work with others to move your career forward! Listen in to find out more! Got ideas for the podcast? Or want to know more about the course Potential to 1st Steps? Please email me at beingabizanalyst@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

Biz Analyst Moments: Dos and don'ts of the soft skills resume section. The value of soft skills may already be multiple times greater than hard skills. Although, some, I am not naming names, are still listing them as a single word without any description. Let's take a look at the do's and don'ts of the soft skills section. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

Lead with soft skills not hard skills: making your soft skills section pop off your resume or standout in the interview We have all been there, we listed a bunch of soft skills found on the job description so that they passed the ATS check, but what about when the recruiter reads your resume; or worse yet what about when during an interview talking about your soft skills puts the interviewer to sleep. Let's put an end to boring soft skills sections and inspire the reader or interviewer to be excited to learn more about you from the work history/experience section. Biz Analyst Potential to Biz Analyst Career Being a Biz Analyst!

Biz Analyst moments: Business Analysis core concept model in action. In this episode we dive into using the BA core concept model as a checklist for all business analysis that we might do on a day to day basis, to be sure we fully understand the situation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

The BABOK talk: The Core Concept Model why is it used? What the heck is the core concept model? Why did they include it in version 3 as the basis for all BA tasks. The core concept model is the way to look at all BA work, and all knowledge areas and tasks in the BABOK. It is the simplest way to think about everything we do and how we do it, in order to frame how to think about our work and how to think about what tasks or knowledge areas we need to use in a given context. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

Biz Analyst Moments: Being a mentee How to truly take advantage of mentoring as the mentee. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

How to move your career forward: mentors and mentorship What does it mean to have a mentor? What are the benefits of having a mentor? The mentor, mentee relationship is a very unique one, and in this episode we will explore that relationship and how your career can benefit from being in a mentorship relationship. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

Biz Analyst Planning Moment: A networking contact does not reply ...what do you do? Why did they not reply? Did I misunderstand the agreement? They must be the most inconsiderate person in the World. Let's look at the real possibilities and consider a stakeholder engagement approach!

The BABOK talk: Are the tasks and knowledge areas in order? The answer is no! The knowledge areas are intended to be a collection of tasks that are related. It is my experience that related for the BABOK means they have similar inputs, outputs, or the tasks of a knowledge area might be related in that they could be done in sequence, but do not need to be done in sequence. In this episode we dive into the confusion people often experience about the organization of the BABOK. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

The BABOK Talk: The first episode, what is a Business Analyst???

How to move your career forward: communication We dive into the three types of communication, which are the verbal, nonverbal, and the written word. Also, you will get next steps on how to implement my suggestions moving forward. A friend of mine is offering a free training to improve elicitation of requirements at the following link: http://bit.ly/btgfreetraining Lastly, I am looking for aspiring BAs who want to participate in a course for exchange of testimonials and feedback. I am only looking for people who are willing to be fully committed without excuses as I am doing this for free. The training would be in a group of 3 to 5 people. Email me at beingabizanalyst@gmail.com for a consultation to find out if you will be a good fit for the course. Please note fit has to do with commitment and few other factors, and almost no criteria of education or experience. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

Lead with soft skills not hard skills: Lead with value not technology. In this episode we dive into how to use technology to provide more value to the customer, rather than creating more waste or more tasks for the customer to do that they do not want to pay for. Want to know more about Being a Biz Analyst check out my YouTube channel with the same name. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

  In this episode I talk about the importance of teaching what you learn, as soon as possible.  What I find with most things I learn is I will not use the information for maybe even a year, even if I have made a very targeted choice about what to learn.   Although, what I find is if I teach first, so I learn something and then teach what I understand about the topic right away I not only retain more of the information, but I also find out what I enjoy about the topic more deeply.   If you would like to find out more about Being a Biz Analyst, hop on over to my YouTube channel Being a Biz Analyst --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

Lead with soft skills not hard skills: Lead with value not your title focuses on what I see a lot, which is people placing a great deal of emphasis on their titles; sometimes it becomes their identity. Let us breakdown position titles, roles, and skills. Let us find out where our value to a project or organization comes from and what the value, if any, their is in having position titles, and roles. I close with how does this affect your career change to Biz Analyst!!! Biz Analyst potential to Biz Analyst career!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

12 days of Professional Development Day 2019, which details 12 key points of value about the upcoming IIBA Vancouver's first ever professional development day. Go to bit.ly/vanpdd19 for more information! Happy Holidays

The retrospective: Live a life of no regrets --- The hardest aspect of wanting to pursue your potential is the cost, and potential of resulting in a lot of regrets.--- It is not the intention of Being a Biz Analyst to advocate for pursuing your potential at the cost of regrets, so I wanted to take this episode to breakdown this delicate balance that we must walk as being that type of person who is going to always pursuing their potential, or even doing so for a short period of time.---- Listen for all the details, have an amazing day, Biz Analyst Potential to Biz Analyst Career!

Hey Hey to all you aspiring Business Analysts out there!!! So we are now starting the make-over of this podcast channel with two new shows that will provide more value, in a more condensed format with 2 shows. This will be the first, and include a retrospective of what is working, what was not working, what needs to be improved, and most importantly lessons learned. For now the focus will be lessons learned, and then we shall see how best to move forward. Today we are covering the following topics: 1.Always be pursuing your potential 2.Raising your expectations 3.All nighters are not worth it 4.Make sure the MVP actually fills the need --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message

How to become a Business Analyst requires an understanding of what you are looking for. Perfect fit for your first position as a Business Analyst is the intersection of three different elements, that works on both sides, the company and you! Find out what gives rise to the perfect fit, and always keep laser focused on this fit. If you achieve even most of a perfect fit, you are likely looking for a fantastic opportunity!!! Being a Biz Analyst Biz Analyst Potential to Biz Analyst Career! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/being-a-biz-analyst/message