Course details
Excellence in business analysis requires the mastery of a diverse set of skills. In addition to possessing a variety of analysis skills, business analysts must be great creative thinkers, facilitators of decisions, conflict managers, relationship builders, communicators and facilitators, process and data analysts, and more. If you’re currently a business analyst, interested in taking on a business analyst position—or just curious about what the job entails—this course can help you understand the competencies that modern business analysts need to be successful in their role. As instructor Angela Wick dives into each of these competencies, she offers practical examples that illustrate why the highlighted skills are so crucial.
Instructor
Angela Wick is a trainer, consultant, agile coach, author, blogger, and speaker.
Angela has over 20 years of experience in business analysis and is a recognized global expert in business analysis practices. She helps organizations bring agility and a value mindset to the products and solutions they develop. As the founder of BA-Squared, LLC, a training and consulting organization, she focuses on modernizing requirements and agile practices, and teaches business analysis, agile product ownership, agile business analysis, and project management.
Angela is passionate about bringing innovation, creativity, and leadership to requirements and agile practices. She contributes to industry thought leadership in the following ways: as a member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) v3 committee; lead author and committee chair of the IIBA Business Analysis Competency Model; author of the “Career Models” chapter in Managing Business Analysts; expert reviewer of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide; and author of the ebook Agile Product Ownership: Maximizing the Role and Accelerating Success. Angela has earned the Project Management Professional (PMP®), Professional in Business Analysis (PBA®), Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®), ICAgile Certified Professional Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), and ICAgile Certified Professional Business Value Analysis (ICP-BVA) certifications.
Welcome to Business Analysis Competencies
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Business analysis competencies are a mix of creative, analytical, relationship, communication, facilitation and leadership skills. Now that’s a lot for one person to master, but that’s exactly why you’re here. Business analysis is absolutely critical in today’s organizations. These skills business analysts need to be successful can be developed in a lot of various roles and taken to another level as a BA. Great BAs with advanced competencies provide tremendous value to projects, teams and the organization, and there is always room to grow more, whether you hold the BA title or not. Hi, I’m Angela Wick, and welcome to this course which focuses on the competencies and skills needed for powerful business analysis. I’ve been consulting and training in business analysis and requirements practices for many years and have contributed to the global industry standards in requirements and business analysis. This course guides BAs through the competencies needed to bring better requirements and…