Cerificering
IIBA biedt
certificeringmogelijkheden voor business analisten en requirements engineers.
Men kan twee soorten examen afleggen:
1. CBAP – Certified Business Analysis Professional. Om dit
examen te kunnen doen moet men al voldoende jaren ervaring als business analist
hebben. Vervolgens moet men ook een moeilijke examen, gebaseerd op BABOK
(Business Analysis Body of Knowledge), afleggen.
2. CCBA - Certification of Competency in Business Analysis. Dit certificaat is
bedoeld als een certificataat voor professionals die nog niet aan een hoge eisen
van CBAP kunnen voldoen, maar wel de erkenning van hun kennis en kunde willen
krijgen.
Through the new practice guide and PMI-PBA certification, PMI will drive an awareness of the role globally that IIBA® has simply not had the resources to do
To obtain a PMI-PBA, first you complete an application that verifies you meet the following requirements:
Minimum of 3 years (4,500 hours) of business analysis experience within the past 8 consecutive years if you have a bachelor’s degree. (Or 5 years/7500 hours of experience if you do not.) (For comparison, the CBAP® requires 7,500 hours of experience and the CCBA® 3,750.)
2,000 hours working on project teams within the past eight consecutive years.
35 business analysis education (contact hours).
to support the ability for systems to change, we should be able to safely make big changes (supported by automated scenarios), as well as the small ones (supported by automated object specifications).
business goal, one or more actors, one or more impacts and one or more ways to support or prevent these impacts
You always start with the business goal; it is your map’s root node. You then grow the map out from the goal by first identifying all the actors (e.g. the customer or the team) that could help or prevent the project from achieving the goal. Each actor could have multiple ways to help or hinder achieving the goal, we call these impacts.
The last layer of an impact map defines what the project or delivery team can do in order to support or prevent particular impacts from happening, and this is the layer where your software options come into play.
In BDD we use Cynefin to identify which features require the most attention
Value and complexity analysis
reuse
outsource
Cynefin to make strategic planning decisions based on value/complexity analysis
Planning in examples
Usage-centered design
Ubiquitous language
eliminate the cost of translation
borrowed from DDD (Domain Driven Design)
'Given, describes the initial context for the example'When' describes the action that the actor in the system or stakeholder performs'Then' describes the expected outcome of that action
Introducing the three amigos
no single person has the full answer to the problem
IREB bigger than BABOK/CBAP? Or is the analysis on Google insights on CPRE (in category computers) returning irrelevant results.
Note: in US the HOOD group offers CPRE certification and e-learning (which would qualify as correct search results).
In my experience use cases are very powerful tools - their purpose is show the view from a *user's point of view*. The presented example is already very technical, and specifies a lot of details.
May I offer alternatives to the example in the article?A) A few brief classic requirements (for business) & a diagram (BPMN or UML activity diagram) (for the engineers)B) A use case with a lot less details (maybe 4-8 steps) & user interface design & a list of business rules (describing the essence of the details)C) No use case. One single sentence describing the goal & rationale ("As a user I want to have a recovery method when I forget the password because ....") & brief description of the important parts, business rules (no flow details!) & user interface design
May I offer other improvements to the "classic" use case in the example?- Instead of a summary, formulate it as a goal (remove redundancy)- Adding how frequently this is done ("Frequency: seldom, max. once per month ... once every few years")- Keep the main flow under 10 points- Remove pre-conditions and post-conditions. Keep it simple.- Integrate the alternative flows into the main flow (if possible, leave away details)
Requirements.net is home of the industry consortium for business analysis. Through focus on requirements definition, visualization, and management, the companies behind Requirements.net are driven to share and sponsor best practices and technologies to improve industry requirements practices
How do I get CBAP certified?
CBAP Preparation requires a structure approach and time. The preparation revolves around BABOK (Business Analysis body of knowledge) and needs a thorough understanding of the book. In addition to that, you also need to practice with questions and drills to be ready for the exam
For most enterprises moving to Agile, this is a new and critical role, typically translating into a full-time job, requiring one PO to support each Agile team (or, at most, two teams).
This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with Product Management, Customers, Business Owners, and other stakeholders
Without the right number of people in the right roles, bottlenecks will severely limit velocity.