Joy Beatty, VP of Research at Seilevel, recently presented to the vibrant business analyst community in Central Iowa at IBADD 2012. CBAPs, CCBAs, and new business analysts learned about: Models for Data Requirements: Many analysts think that “data modeling” means designing databases and technical data models. Business users have no capability of creating and consuming [...]

Joy Beatty, VP of Research at Seilevel, participated in a panel discussion on software requirements on Information Management Magazine’s “DMRadio.” If you’d like to listen to the archived discussion, you can find it here: http://bit.ly/zCznao The hour-long interview and discussion was hosted by Eric Kavanagh, CEO at The Bloor Group, and Jim Ericson, editorial director [...]

Joy Beatty, VP Research & Development at Seilevel, presented a requirements webinar September 21 hosted by eDev Technologies. The webinar is part of their Requirements Leadership Forum lecture series; you can see it archived here. Joy spoke to more than 220 people, comparing the reasons to start with the requirements process with why you might [...]

Holly asks: What are the professional skills you look for in a Business Analyst out of college who has no real-world experience? Answer: Holly, even without real-world experience, college students definitely have the opportunity to practice some mature professional skills. So in our interview process, I’d look for simple things at first – did they [...]

Jim asks: “I’m going to do some training of my Business Analyst team, how can I simulate the stakeholder role in my training when I can’t get real ones?” Answer: Thanks for the question Jim. I think there are two approaches that would work well here. The first thing is to have your students do role playing [...]