Bridging the Gap

MAY 11, 2023

Hi, I’m Laura Brandenburg from Bridging The Gap where we help you start, succeed, and excel in your business analyst’s career with weekly videos on business analysis, tips and techniques. I’m always the first to say that with job titles within the entire business analysis profession are deceiving.

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Bridging the Gap

MARCH 16, 2023

Hi, I’m Laura Brandenburg with Bridging the Gap, where we help you start, succeed, and excel in your business analyst career with weekly videos on business analysis tips and techniques. This means they help ensure that the software solutions actually do what the business needs them to do and solve real business problems.

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Argon Digital

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The processes that describe how the business currently works are called the as-is or current-state processes. Those that describe the envisioned future state of how the business will operate are called the to-be processes. What about the Process Analysis Space? Business process acronyms galore.

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Bridging the Gap

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I’ll be sharing specific techniques for business process analysis , use cases , and data modeling , as well as success stories from ACBAs. That’s what happens if you just put a tool in place and don’t actually understand what your business process is or how to use that tool successfully within your organization.

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Bridging the Gap

MAY 25, 2023

In this video, you’ll discover: How to define the roles of business analyst and project manager, and the skills required for each role. How business analysis and project management roles differ and overlap. The questions YOU bring to this live event about project management and business analysis.

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Bridging the Gap

AUGUST 10, 2022

Don’t business analysts slow things down, add more costs, and create unnecessary documentation? Business analysts add a tremendous amount of value to projects. This video takes a look at the specific ways business analysis increases the return on investment. (If Of course not! Let’s dive right in.

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Bridging the Gap

JUNE 21, 2022

And today I am very happy to be here with Michelle Bosomworth, from Southwestern Ontario, who is currently working as a senior business process analyst in the cybersecurity industry. I sort of landed into business analysis six or seven years ago, just sort of by the organizational change and this role being available.

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Bridging the Gap

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re learning about business architecture for the first time or dreaming of ways to grow your BA career into a business architecture role, my conversation with Whynde Kuehn will help you discover the value of this role in an organization and what you can do to bridge that gap in your career. WHYNDE KUEHN: Oh, you bet.

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Bridging the Gap

APRIL 27, 2022

We have a whole video that I talk about different ways of cultivating a 1:1 relationship with the stakeholder and helping them understand business analysis. Starting by analyzing their business process helps put them in the position to tell you what they really, really want.

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Bridging the Gap

MAY 4, 2022

Today we meet John Sim, an Applied Certification in Business Analysis (ACBA) recipient and Financial Business Analyst from San Francisco, who recently landed a job as a Salesforce Business Analyst after much determination. How John was able to decipher what was and was not business analysis work.

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 15, 2023

My 7 tips for becoming a good BA Elicitation, documentation, validation, adaptation and stakeholder conflict mitigation are all things I never thought I would get myself into when I decided to shift careers and become a business analyst just over a year ago.

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Bridging the Gap

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Today we meet James Dean from Ireland, a recent participant in The Business Analyst Blueprint® who is thriving as a business analyst in the energy industry. JAMES DEAN: I’m based in Ireland in Dublin, and I’m currently a business analyst with an actual title of business analyst. I just didn’t realize.

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Watermark Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A Business Analyst (BA) employs their skill sets to bring business value. The profession’s foundational resource, the third version of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide v3) can help the business analyst identify their strengths and areas needing improvement as they work on building their skills.

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Bridging the Gap

JUNE 1, 2022

Today we meet Wendell White, an ACBA and Project Manager, who recently completed The Business Analyst Blueprint® certification program. . What we love about Wendell’s story is that, similar to many course students, he wasn’t aware that he was already performing business analysis work in his work as a project manager.

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Pestle Analysis

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here are four methods to help you carry out a causal analysis, a highly effective technique to identify the factors causing a particular problem.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Now, you just need to pick a modelling notation and plot your elements following its rules, being confident you’ve got all you need to capture the process. Business process modelling is covered in more detail in my Coursera course. Want to learn more about business analysis directly from me or read my book?

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Bridging the Gap

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

What we love about Alison’s story is how The Business Analysis Blueprint® certification program equipped her with hands-on experience going beyond the theory-based knowledge she had prior to the program. The Blueprint® showed Alison to recognize what she didn’t know and to fill in the gaps in her business analysis knowledge. ?

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Argon Digital

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We will walk you through how to measure whether you’re automating the right process or process step and meeting your objectives. This article uses some common terminology and acronyms related to automation and process analysis. Know Your Business Objectives. You don’t have to add KPIMs to every single process.

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