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Quick Start Workshop (FREE)
Get Free AccessBridging the Gap provides online training and certification to business analysts with free resources to help anyone looking to start or improve their business analysis career. If you’re looking to discover the many opportunities available to business analysts, their FREE Quick Start to Success workshop is for you!
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Job Interview Prep Guide (FREE)
Get Free AccessBridging the Gap provides online training and certification to business analysts with free resources to help anyone looking to start or improve their business analysis career. They understand how overwhelming it can be to prepare for a job interview, especially if it’s your first time interviewing for a new career, so they created a FREE guide that outlines exactly what to expect in a Business Analyst job interview.
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Use Case Template (FREE)
Get Free AccessIf you struggle to get everyone on the same page about software requirements, Bridging the Gap’s FREE Use Case template will help you ask smart questions (even if you don’t know how to code). In this FREE template, you’ll discover what a use case is and how to effectively put one together.
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Business Process Template (FREE)
Get Free AccessAre you looking for a way to streamline your business process analysis? This is often the very first technique business analysts use to analyze the scope of a new project. Since it’s such a critical piece of your job, Bridging the Gap created a simple template as a starting place for all of your projects so you can provide the stakeholders with the information they really want and need.
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Requirements Discovery Checklist (FREE)
Get Free AccessBridging the Gap has created a FREE checklist to help you think through all the questions you should ask around supporting a customer so you can feel confident and prepared as a business analyst.
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Business Analyst Skills Assessment (FREE)
Get Free AccessWhether you are just starting out or looking to get to the next level, their FREE BA Skills Assessment is a great tool that helps clarify your level of awareness and experience of key business analysis techniques and processes to make more informed decisions about training and career opportunities.
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Business Analysis Practitioner Course
View ProductGet foundation-level understanding and real-world practical skills that will propel your business analysis career forward. It includes practical case study assignments, including use case diagrams, data modelling, and process modelling. Individual tutor feedback will boost your confidence in the core business analysis concepts, methodologies, and techniques. This course is a great building block to start your preparation for the Professional Certification exam: IIBA® ECBA®. Master the fundamentals of business analysis with this comprehensive online course.
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50 Project Templates for Business Analysis & Project Management
View productIncludes Project Management, Business Analysis and Product Ownership templates. Streamline your projects and save precious time with this exclusive collection of 50 highly popular project templates, suitable for both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. These templates are available in various downloadable file formats including Excel, Power Point, Word, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Docs, Miro, and Draw, and come with an easy-to-use NOTION Project Template Dashboard for added convenience. Each template features comprehensive examples and instructions, making it simple and stress-free to get your projects up and running in no time.
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AgileVideos
View ProductAgileVideos is a powerful online learning platform designed to accelerate and scale Agile Learning through practical, engaging and actionable videos. AgileVideos is the perfect resource for individuals and organisations looking to transition to or sustain an Agile business strategy. The comprehensive suite of resources, including strategy development, measurement tools and talent development programs, provide the support needed in order to accelerate and maintain true enterprise agility. Whether you are just beginning your journey towards Agile or already on it – AgileVideos provides all the resources necessary for a successful learning experience that will help you reach your goals faster.
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Agile Practitioner Course
View ProductIdeal for any Business Analyst with any level of experience who would like to advance in their career towards being a Professional Business Analyst. Advance your Agile Analysis expertise with our comprehensive online course. Get up to speed on the latest Agile analysis techniques as it is outlined in the Agile Extension v2 to the BABOK Guide and gain a thorough understanding of applying Business Analysis within the Agile environment at all planning horizons. Not only will you benefit from in-depth training, but you’ll also be well-equipped to succeed on the IIBA Agile Certificate Exam.
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How To Be An Agile Business Analyst
View on AmazonHow To Be An Agile Business Analyst is for business analysts who want to become an effective member of an agile team. It provides valuable insights into how you can apply your business analysis skills in order to make sure that the team builds the right thing. The book explains five key characteristics of being an agile business analyst and offers practical advice on how to adopt those characteristics. By reading this book, you will be able to understand what it takes to be successful in a fast-paced environment and add value as part of a dynamic team working collaboratively towards common goals.
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The Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning
View on AmazonThe Agile Guide to Business Analysis and Planning: From Strategic Plan to Continuous Value Delivery is a must-have for teams looking to streamline their agile product development process. It offers practical guidance on how to reduce errors and delays through effective planning, backlog refinement and acceptance criteria specification. With its step-by-step approach, this book also incorporates a running case study to walk you through the full agile product lifecycle, from visioning through release and continuous value delivery. It contains everything you always wanted to know about agile analysis and planning but didn’t know who to ask.
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Agile Business Analysis
View on AmazonAgile Business Analysis: Enabling Continuous Improvement of Requirements, Project Scope, and Agile Project Results is designed for Business Analysts of all levels, from all types of environments. Through modelling techniques, documentation, communication and meetings, reporting and governance, Business Analysts will learn to provide invaluable support to agile projects. This books shows you how to build user stories and elaborate requirements to ensure that all stakeholders understand what is being developed. It will also show you how to facilitate the estimation process, ensuring effective application of lessons, improvements, and efficiencies. This is a well organised and easy-to-follow introduction to agile Business Analysis practices.
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Agile and Business Analysis
View on AmazonAgile and Business Analysis: Practical guidance for IT professionals is an ideal resource for business analysts looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of Agile methodologies. It provides in-depth explanations and contextual information on how Agile practices can be applied within the realm of business analysis. This makes it perfect for those wanting to learn more about working with Agile, as well as those who are already working in an Agile environment or seeking certification in this area. It is perfect for Business Analysts, Product Owners or Project Managers who are working on Agile projects.
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The Tyranny of Metrics
View on AmazonIn his book, Jerry Muller challenges the obsession with measuring human performance and uncovers the damage metrics are causing. He provides examples of how metrics can be beneficial when used in conjunction with personal experience and judgment, as well as an invaluable checklist for when and how to use them. This brief but impactful book offers a much-needed corrective to a harmful trend that increasingly affects us all – providing readers with an essential guide on how we can begin to fix this problem. This is a great read!
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Metrics: How to Improve Key Business Results
View on AmazonMetrics are an important part of measuring success in the business world. It is essential to understand not only what metrics are, but why they matter and how to use them effectively. This highly rate book does exactly that. Not only does it explain the purpose and importance behind metrics, but it also provides step-by-step instructions for creating reports that can be used to track progress within an organisation as well as customer satisfaction levels. The book includes examples of how to identify, collect, analyse, and report metrics that will be immediately useful for improving all aspects of the enterprise, including IT.
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Mastering the Requirements Process
View on AmazonMastering the Requirements Process describes a comprehensive and industry-proven process of gathering and verifying requirements. It includes latest best practices, demonstrating how to effectively discover customer needs regardless of whether you work in a traditional or agile environment. This essential read outlines the most efficient methods possible for understanding what customers want from their products or services so that developers can deliver high quality results every time. It includes checklists to help identify stakeholders, users, non-functional requirements, and describes methods for reusing requirements and requirements patterns. Highly recommended.
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Discovering Requirements
View on AmazonDiscovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services is a comprehensive book useful for anyone looking to get the most out of their projects. It contains a wealth of carefully checked tips and tricks, illustrated examples, checklists, summaries, keywords and exercises that will help you discover requirements and better understand the real problems you’re trying to solve. Additionally, guest boxes from other experts provide extra hints and advice that can further enhance your understanding or give new ideas on how best to approach a project. It includes a full chapter on product qualities and constraints and how to discover, document, and validate non-functional requirements.
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Software Requirements
View on AmazonSoftware Requirements is an award winning book and is ideal for professionals involved in requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management – from business requirements to non-functional requirements. It provides a comprehensive set of practical techniques and templates that can be used to improve the efficiency of these processes. The real-life stories included provide insight into how successful organisations have applied these methods in their own environments. It covers topics such as business rules, data requirements, visual modelling, non-functional requirements and reuse which are becoming increasingly important areas for modern businesses.
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The Quest for Software Requirements
View on AmazonThe Quest for Software Requirements is an exceptional book and perfect for any professional looking to improve their skills in eliciting requirements. It contains over 2,000 suggested questions designed to help master the art of requirements gathering and ensure that all vital information is captured. It includes step-by-step techniques, insightful tips and tools, easy-to-use checklists, examples of non-functional requirements, and requirements-gathering questions. This resource provide readers with a powerful toolset to more accurately identify, classify and document non-functional requirements. Highly recommended!
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Mastering Non-Functional Requirements
View on AmazonMastering Non-Functional Requirements is an invaluable resource for analysts and architects looking to capture NFRs in their engagements. It outlines a comprehensive methodology for capturing NFRs, as well as providing a framework that can be used by these professionals to tackle the complexities of NFRs across various projects. With this book, analysts and architects now have access to an essential toolkit for understanding how best to incorporate NFRs into their workflows. It also provides checklists for the software quality attributes related to the business, application, data, and infrastructure domains. If you want to ‘go deep’ this book gives thorough coverage of non-functional requirements.
