Tagg: CBAP

On your certification exam day, you should be relaxed, psychologically prepared, and confident.  Taking the PMP, CBAP or other certification exam can be a stressful event! Try to be well rested and adequately nourished when you take the exam. Staying up all night before the exam for some last minute studying is not a good idea. […]

Hello everyone and Happy Memorial Day weekend!  Did you know that version 3 of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide v3) is currently under public review around the world? Project managers and business analysts may want to join in and participate in the review […]

How hard can building a complete, comprehensive, consistent, and understandable set of project requirements be? We all know that our project requirements should not just be a jumble of information.  The trick is making sure that we structure and organize those requirements properly so they define what is needed at the correct level of detail. Effective […]

If you find yourself performing solution validation as part of your project, remember that there are three general techniques that the BABOK® Guide  recommends that you use when validating that solution and addressing any defects or issues that you might find. Some of these techniques occur early in the project life cycle when you are […]

As discussed in my previous post, the BABOK® Guide’s Solution Assessment and Validation knowledge area asks business analysts and project teams to compare their solution and its capabilities against the project’s business, stakeholder and solution requirements that were created earlier in the project life cycle. One key aspect of this activity is that you then […]