I recently had the pleasure of leading business analyst training in Des Moines, Iowa.  While Des Moines is a bit colder than Austin was, I had a terrific time working with a terrific group of business analyst! Seilevel offered three different classes, each focusing on a different aspect of necessary business analyst skills: Requirements 101:  [...]

Seilevel is kicking off 2013 with two training opportunities, one in New York and another in Iowa. We’ll be in each location for three days, and students can select from three classes (but we hope you’ll take all three). Locations/Dates: Des Moines: February 4-6 New York City: February 11-13 Los Angeles: March 19-21 The classes we’re [...]

I was listening to some colleagues the other day, talking about a new technique that there were trying out on their current project.  As I listened to them, I thought that the technique sounded interesting, however, it also sounded like it took a lot of work and time.  I’ve got my set of techniques that [...]

When considering establishing a Business Analyst Center of Excellence (COE), there are many components to consider. Be sure to include the “people” component. In other words, what can the COE do to help Business Analysts (BAs) grow and progress in their roles? When I mention the people component to our customers, the first thing that many [...]

Business Analyst Training (IIBA and PMI certified) in Requirements Visualization will be held in NYC November 14. You can register here: http://batraining_nyc_visualization.eventbrite.com/ The course offers immediately useable and useful approaches to using visual models in software requirements. Need more details? You can find them here: http://www.seilevel.com/training/requirements-visualization/ You can also email us at training@seilevel.com. This course [...]

Seilevel has increased the number of its public training for business analysts, which got me thinking: what other sorts of training do business analysts need? Having knowledge of how to write requirements, elicitation skills, tool skills, knowledge of models, etc. is definitely fundamental to what a business analyst does on a day-to-day basis. Additionally, the business analyst [...]

It was a full house for Seilevel Business Analyst Training last week, and it was so great to meet people from Frontier, USAA, Lincoln Financial Group, and First Command! Going into last week’s training courses, we made changes to the Requirements Visualization course (see this recent post for details) to align the course to our [...]

In the spirit of the football season, I wanted to begin this blog post with a quote from famed Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi: “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is [...]

Whether you’re looking for training to help improve your BA skills, to advance towards a promotion, or to help with IIBA certification, here are 6 questions that will help you determine if a particular program or course is best for you. What are your business objectives? Are you taking BA training just to “check the [...]

Now that Visual Models for Software Requirements is done, I have some more time to put into improving our business analysis training courses. In particular, we are going to revamp the models (requirements visualization) course to match the book. Some of our models have evolved, we definitely have better examples now, and we even have some [...]