http://www.bainsight.com From Strategy to Implementation Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:04:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BABOK version 2 is now available for download from the IIBA's website. This document represents a complete draft of version 2 of the knowledge areas contained in the Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge. This draft is being made available to the business analysis community to gather feedback ... http://www.bainsight.com/archives/194 I'm going to be shutting down BA Insight in the next few weeks. You can find me, as well as the rest of the IIBA's leadership, at our new home: blog.theiiba.org. See you there! http://www.bainsight.com/archives/193 Well, I'm here in beautiful Downtown Disney, Anaheim, California, for several IIBA meetings and the World Congress of Business Analysts. Unfortunately, my luggage is apparently in Colorado. Downtown Disney itself is lively but I'm still on EST and was up at 5:30 this morning to catch my plane, so I'm not ... http://www.bainsight.com/archives/191 The BABOK 2.0 Framework (a 16-page overview of the structure and content of BABOK 2.0) is in layout and will be published on the IIBA's website in the next few days. I'll be sure to link to it here when it goes up. This document will be available to everyone ... http://www.bainsight.com/archives/190 I really need to introduce the term "opportunity cost" into the BA vocabulary. http://www.bainsight.com/archives/189 It's almost ready for public release. In fact most of it has been done for some time now, as you may have noticed if you looked at the presentations. At this point it's mostly a matter of a little editing and finalizing the list of techniques. As part of this effort ... http://www.bainsight.com/archives/188 My wife and I are finally settled into our new home and our anniversary is coming up tomorrow. In lieu of actual content here's another presentation. It covers a lot of what may be in version 2.0 of the BABOK (I say may because our volunteers are actively working on ... http://www.bainsight.com/archives/186 The "1.7" draft of the Solution Assessment and Validation KA is now available for download by IIBA members. This content was completed after the creation of the CBAP exam and was not designed using the exam content as a reference. If you are studying for the exam you should continue to ... http://www.bainsight.com/archives/185 The 2.0 framework document (which describes the revised structure of the BABOK, the purpose of each KA, the streamlined task structure, and the candidate techniques) is finally almost ready to see the light of day. I'll be posting it here and on the IIBA site within the next week or ... http://www.bainsight.com/archives/184 I got asked the following question about the official definition of a requirement used by the IIBA (which is itself only a slight modification of the IEEE's):  A requirement is1: A condition or capability needed by a stakeholder2 to solve a problem or achieve an objective. A condition or capability that must be ... http://www.bainsight.com/archives/183