10 Business Analyst’s Resolutions For 2016

10 Business Analyst’s Resolutions For 2016

Yeah, it’s that time of the year again. Taking stock of the year gone by and making plans for the coming year. I also have this habit of making new year resolutions and one of the permanent resolution is that I will follow my resolutions However, irrespective of the success rate, I make resolutions every year without fail.

This year though, I thought I will do a little different exercise. Since my BA coaching profession allows me to meet varied kind of Business Analysts at various levels and all are seeking career guidance, I thought I will create a common list of resolutions which any BA anywhere across the world can adopt.

1.Add one or more certifications to your kitty:

If you have been thinking of doing CCBA or CBAP certification, then there is no better time than first half of 2016. IIBA will start the exams on BABOK v3.0 starting Sep 2016. The new BABOK v3.0 is double the size of existing one and the exam is expected to get more difficult due to the complexity introduced by the 5 perspectives apart from 6 knowledge areas. Other certifications that can be targeted in 2016 include agile / scrum, domain related, enterprise architecture, etc.

2.Learn an additional Business domain knowledge:

While having deep knowledge about a particular business domain is useful, the rapidly changing market dynamics demands that a BA should have the capability to analyze problems in different domains and propose appropriate solutions for them. To build this "learning" capability, we should try to learn another domain this year. This will also help us to creatively evaluate how solutions from different domains can be utilized a completely different business domain.

3.Build cross-functional skill-set:

As more and more teams adopt Agile / Scrum, BAs will have to share more and more work with other team members. This means that if we have some more useful skills like pre-sales, project management, manual testing. automated testing, documentation, etc. then we will be able to add more value to the team and to the customer.

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