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Core Business Analyst Capabilities

Learning the 4 key capabilities can put you in the league of high-performing business analysts and push your BA career to the next level.

How To Negotiate Your Business Analysis Salary

Salary negotiation is the 2nd most important determining factor in the salary that you receive for your BA work. n this video, I provide you with a few pointers to help you understand how/when to start the negotiation process.

How To Increase Your Business Analysis Salary

You may be happy with the salary you’re making as a business analyst. If you’re not, this video will provide you with the top 3 actions you should be taking right now to increase your business analysis salary.

How To Stand Out In Your Interviews

When the job market gets competitive, you have to find ways to stand out from the competition. In this video, I share three things you can do to give memorable interviews to increase your chances of being successful with your job interviews.

Business Analyst Interview Question

Why do interviewers always ask you to tell them about yourself if they already have your resume? In this video, we’ll talk about why this question gets asked, and more importantly, how to answer it.

RPA Business Analyst (an interview with Vijay Nair)

RPA is a type of project that requires the involvement of a business analyst. There are some analysts who specialize specifically in executing only RPA projects.

Business Analysis Consulting (an interview with Faheem Moosa)

You can be a business analyst who works a full-time permanent job, or you can choose to take your BA career in an entirely different direction.

The Fastest Way To Become A Business Analyst

How you get into the BA profession depends on where you’re starting from. In this video, I walk you through the most common ways that professionals enter the BA profession.

Job Interview Questions: Change Transformation & Process Design

Change management is an aspect of project execution that is often neglected during agile transformations. This video provides guidance to business analysts for handling these situations in their own organizations.

A Real Business Analyst Resume

In this video, you get a walkthrough of a resume that has landed countless interviews and multiple business analysis jobs.

Agile BA Problems: The Point Of No Return

The BABOK And It’s Relationship To The Industry

The IIBA has brought the BA profession to the forefront in the minds of many IT organizations. This video talks about the relationship between the BABOK and the industry terminology.

Change Management For Business Analysts

Resistance to change can hamper projects and solution delivery.

Your BA Certification Strategy (Should You Get Certified?)

We’ve recently received many questions about BA certifications. This video provides some guidance on the BA certifications so that you’re spending your time as effectively as possible.

The Trouble With The Agile Development Philosophy

With all the buzz around the agile development philosophy, it can be easy to get the wrong impression of how agile affects business analysts. In this video, we clear that up.

A Business Analytics Role Mistitled As A Business Analyst Role

In our last video on business analytics, we saw a clear example of how an education provider had mislabeled their courses. In this video, you can see that employers are also not immune from making this mistake.

Process Mapping Demo

Process mapping is one of the best ways to discover business/user requirements. This demo shows you the swiftness of MS visio in producing process maps both inside and outside a workshop environment.

Business Analytics Is Not Business Analysis

There has been a lot of discussion in our community about the relationship between business analysis and the profession of business analytics. This video helps you understand why there is so much confusion between these two professions.

Working With Your Software Development Team

Software developers are one of the most important stakeholders that business analysts have. In this video, we take some feedback from real developers on how we, as business analysts, can help make their jobs easier.

The Role Of The Business Analyst

If you want to become a business analyst, then you should be learning the profession with the big picture in mind. This video walks you through the elemental concepts that all business analysts need to understand.

How To Run Your Requirements & Validation Workshops

What should you include in the handouts that you provide to your workshop participants? We answer this and other important requirements workshop related questions.