Also if you didn’t attend our #BadAssBA call earlier
Also if you didn’t attend our #BadAssBA call earlier, you’ll have missed out on the extremely hilarious and entertaining #EnglishDuckRace…
Someone recently told me: “ChatGPT can spit out user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases. What do we need BAs…
Here’s the highlight of the slide with a little help from otter and claude: 🍩Strategic Alignment – Define and Lead…
Angela Wick just explained
Angela Wick just explained why BAs who understand AI monitoring will be the ones getting promoted. And honestly? She’s absolutely…
Angela Wick talking about Redefining the #BadAssBA in the Age of AI.
Angela Wick talking about Redefining the #BadAssBA in the Age of AI. She’s just explained something that every BA needs…
Angela Wick just gave us a reality check on the BA role
Angela Wick just gave us a reality check on the BA role that every analyst needs to hear. 💣 Here’s…
The constant message she’s hearing from leaders? If BAs don’t shift how they think and work, we’re heading for some…
Are you a #BadAssBA? ARE YOU AWAKE?! Then you Need To Be here! Angela Wick talking about Redefining the #BadAssBA…
“AI is going to make the #BusinessAnalyst role obsolete.”
“AI is going to make the #BusinessAnalyst role obsolete.” WHAAAT? I say indignantly! 😠 You’re talking out of your pie-hole!…
I’ve been answering crisis calls for Samaritans for over 17 years now. Mostly late nights. Becuase that’s when people are…
The Strategy for Designing Delightful User Experiences with Daniel Gorton, MSW at our #BadAssBA meetup this month. Iterate on Governance…
THe chat at our #BadAssBA meetup today with Daniel Gorton, MSW is FIRE 🔥🔥🔥 I love how interactive this session…
Are you a #BadAssBA? Are you AWaKe?! Then Why Are You Not At Our Meetup?! We have Daniel Gorton, MSW…
One not to miss people! Looking forward to having Daniel Gorton, MSW with us on our #BadAssBA meetup on Tuesday…
So I’ll be talking to Saurabh Gupta, CEO of GPTfy about AI and the talent pipeline this Friday at 3pm…
“This is the only course that I’ve found that really focuses on soft skills and different scenarios.” 🥰 Anita Jones…
Today’s off-the-record topics included: 🍩The real tea on Dreamforce 2024 (and why some longtime attendees are skipping this year) 🍩Community…
A 5🌟 #BadAssBA Quratulain Tariq whose #BusinessAnalyst exam was interrupted BY AN EARTHQUAKE!!! 😱 AND THEN CAME BACK TO PASS…
Shoutout to Azim Talib who was featured at IIBA websi
Shoutout to Azim Talib who was featured at IIBA website, who also got a new role 🥰 So proud of…
I think this can be applied to all things, not just #BadAssBA response 😂 Child: Can we have ice cream…
📌Step 8: Assess the Value Created After all the activity – solving problems, detailing requirements, configuring systems – it’s easy…
📌Step 7: Help the Business Implement the Solution Laura Brandenburg just shared a love-hate story from her book: A document…
📌Step 6: Support Technical Implementation (Be the bridge, not a bottleneck) Laura Brandenburg on the BA’s role during implementation: Your…
🛠️ The Business Analyst Blueprint: Analysis vs Communication Techniques Laura Brandenburg just broke down her full technique framework: 🍩Business-Level: Process…
🔍 Step 5: Define Detailed Requirements (The bulk of BA work) Laura’s reminder: Even though we discovered a lot in…
⏰ Step 4: The BA Plan (Yes, even though BA work is hard to plan) Laura Brandenburg on the most…
📊 The simple diagram that prevents project derailment Laura Brandenburg’s secret weapon: The System Context Diagram What it shows: Your…
🤖 Game-changer: Use annotated templates to train AI Laura Brandenburg just shared her favorite AI prompt strategy (and it’s brilliant):…
📋 Step 3: Define Scope (Make the business needs tangible) Scope isn’t just a checklist – it’s how you help…
🎯 What good business objectives look like Laura Brandenburg’s formula: 2-5 objectives that are actionable, clear, and logically connected They…
💡 Step 2: Discover the Primary Business Objectives If your goal is to deliver value, you need to understand what…
⚠️ Step 1: Get Oriented (or risk moving in the wrong direction) Laura Brandenburg’s wisdom: “You can’t deliver value unless…
🔍 BA skills aren’t just for big projects—they work on EVERYTHING Laura Brandenburg just shared how the BA framework applies…
📊 The 8-Step Business Analysis Process Framework Laura Brandenburg just walked through her proven framework (the foundation of her book):…
⚠️ The reality check #BadAssBAs need to hear:
⚠️ The reality check #BadAssBAs need to hear: Laura Brandenburg just broke down the challenges that keep BAs from delivering…
📊 Live from a BA webinar with Laura Brandenburg! Key insight: Value-driven business analysts don’t throw the entire methodology book…
We are talking about the “Business Analyst’s Framework for Success” with Laura Brandenburg who is the founder of Bridging the…
He’s just concluded an EPIC session on #DesignThinking, Excellent #UserDesign and #UserInterface to create joyful #UserExperience. 🥰 With my lovely…
OMG this is GOLD for #BusinessAnalysts! 😍 Richard Ivan giving the detailed lowdown on making sure the User Experience is…
Help users have muscle memory when finding information or features by KEEPING THINGS CONSISTENT: 🍩Tab order 🍩Default Tab 🍩Actions 🍩Activity…
I will never see Heinz bottle the same way again! Along with other examples like AirBnB, we have Richard Ivan…
We have Richard Ivan talking about User Adoption and UX
We have Richard Ivan talking about User Adoption and UX With Vanessa Grant at our monthly Trailblazer group meetup for…
Are you a #BadAssBA? Do you call yourself a #BusinessAnalyst? If so, make sure you’re signed up to our meetup…
For the #BadAssBA in my network! https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=231797&clientkey=BBCC05572F3551CD7692FCADEA3B8414
Design Strategy Technique #1: True outcomes aren’t about implementing Salesforce features or meeting acceptance criteria – they’re about measurable changes…
Strategy isn’t just for strategists—it’s everyone’s responsibility, especially since most Salesforce projects don’t have dedicated strategy roles. Success requires understanding…
“Strategy Design is the end – not the means to the end.” So for example, it’s to Increase Qualified Opportunity…
“Strategy Design is about Discovery” 😍 My love language!! Brian Shea talking about Strategy Design for Business Analysts at our…
#24in24forSams – Hour 13/24
#24in24forSams – Hour 13/24 How to Listen to Yourself with Tracy Bingham and Pei Mun Lim https://www.linkedin.com/events/24in24forsams-hour13-247353077132228546561/theater/
#24in24forSams – Hour 11/24
#24in24forSams – Hour 11/24 How to be a more Effective Listener with Quratulain Tariq and Pei Mun Lim https://www.linkedin.com/events/24in24forsams-hour11-247353075913145659394/theater/
GOVERNANCE = My LOVE language ❤️❤️❤️ Jean-Pierre Rizzi 🚀presenting on the topic of #DataMigration for our #BadAssBA‘s trailblazer meetup for…
Key BA Deliverables: 🍩Data Dictionary – to have common language and ELIMINATE MiSuNDerStANdINGS 😒 🍩Data Mapping – make sure you…
Always clean at source (when migrating data) says Jean-Pierre Rizzi 🚀 HEAR HEAR 🙋🏻♀️ Can I upvote this a billion…
Vanessa Grant flying the #BadAssBA flag
Vanessa Grant flying the #BadAssBA flag at London’s Calling to a PAAAAACKED ROOM. 💪🏻 It’s a crash course in #BusinessAnalysis…
All new potential volunteers ask the same question. ALL. Being a listening volunteer for a crisis suicide phoneline such as…
I feel like I was born to do this talk 🥰 This topic hasn’t got picked up by any of…
Ooh the non-recorded-no-holds-barred after hours conversation of our #BadAssBA and #BusinessAnalyst trailblazer meetup… A few gold nuggets: 🍩Insecurity over the…
Here are two podcast episodes I did with Tokeer Ahmed where we talked about consulting, projects, and how a graduate…
Are you a #BusinessAnalyst in the #Salesforce ecosystem? Then why are you not at our #BadAssBA Trailblazer meetup I’m hosting…
“Communication is key to success in project delivery and change management.” 😍 📣LOUDER for those at the back please! 📣…
Look at this. 😒 This is terrible. Just flipping awful. 😖 How can a popular talk at #TDX25 be a…
1 full onsite day for meetings to review all documentation and come away with 3 achievable actions for everyone in…
Put your WHY in your documentation. For example below: Why should the Email field cannot be blank? Adding that context…
Who’s it for? What’s it for? – Design Thinking 101 for documentation. Some key questions to ask (if you’re documenting…
Are you a #BadAssBA? Are you awake? WHY ARE YOU NOT AT OUR AWESOME Business Analyst Trailblazer community event listening…
🤫 🤫🤫 It’s our super secret not-recorded after-hours Q&A chat at the Business Analyst Trailblazer group! Some of the things…
Practical Tips on How to #DemoLikeASolutionEngineer from Jasmine A. (This is more directed at a pre-sales demo as opposed to…
HOLY MOLY THE BIGGEST NUGGET from Jasmine A.‘s “How to Demo like a Solution Engineer” session at the Business Analysts…
Know where your solution hits when doing a demo: 🍩Align your solution to the personal objectives 🍩Align to the overall…
When doing a demo, you need to KNOW THE BUSINESS 🍩People make a business 🍩Are they all looking the same…
Jasmine A. still battling tech issues
Jasmine A. still battling tech issues (ironically) presenting to the Business Analyst Trailblazer community group on the topic of “Demo…
I think this is the same about life, no? No two people see something EXACTLY the same. 👀👀 Physically see…
Thank you Chamara Somaratne for your thoughtful comment on my previous post about AI. This made me dig deeper into…
Imperfect, Flawed, Messy… and Absolutely Worthy! ❤️ Had a wonderful chat with Maria Rajpoot 🇵🇸 yesterday about leadership, motherhood and…
“Did you know when you asked that particular closed question, you stopped the caller from exploring important questions?” “When you…
“OMG how dumb!” 😡 “Why would anyone do that?!” “Don’t they have a brain?!?” 😔 What would happen if we…
The funnest bit of our Salesforce Business Analyst Virtual Community Event is the not-recorded no-holds-barred “After Hours Q&A” that I…
What’s your Worst Project??? OMG Leanne Botwright opened up the floodgates with that question. The responses on the chat from…
JUST BECAUSE WE CAN DOESN’T MEAN WE SHOULD! (ok drop caps now.) 😁 Louder for those at the back please!…
Happening in 4 hrs! Are you a #salesforce #BusinessAnalyst? Do you want to become a #BadAssBA?! Then sign up below…
Here Matthew Morris links
Here Matthew Morris links the role hiearachy into the data model because it allows the questions like who is doing…
Matthew Morris shows how
Matthew Morris shows how the Role Hierarchy diagram is a starter for conversation because it’s like an org chart –…
Matthew Morris highlighting the 4 Lists:
Matthew Morris highlighting the 4 Lists: 🍩Actors (Licenses) 🍩Systems (Status) 🍩Salesforce Objects (Row count & owner) 🍩System-System Integrations Reading a…
Matthew Morris presenting
Matthew Morris presenting “Diagramming Salesforce Solutions” on the Virtual Salesforce #BusinessAnalyst meetup. If you’re a BA and you’re in Salesforce…
Want to learn more about Diagramming Salesforce Solutions from the inimitable Matthew Morris?? Missed my riiiiiiiivetting book launch last Thursday??…
Don’t go through the #AgentForce trailhead
“Don’t go through the #AgentForce trailhead and then announce on social media that you built an Agent in 20 minutes,…
Basic #BusinessAnalyst skills and deliverables.
Basic #BusinessAnalyst skills and deliverables. Ian Gotts drilling into us the basic foundations building a system properly at the Virtual…
“#AgentForce is a #BABA‘s Dream Job”*
Ian Gotts from Elements.cloud is talking at our #Trailblazer Virtual Business Analyst group call with Vanessa Grant. AAALLLL about documentation,…
For those who couldn’t attend the #ActiveListening session I ran for our #BadAssBA Virtual Trailblazer group earlier this month, the…
Coffee! ☕ #BadAssBA! 💪🏻 Omg! Bharat Sharma from Cloudsheer Consulting talking my ♥️ language! Without the #BusinessAnalyst, you’re taking a…
Captain’s log. Stardate 78197.4🤭 Yes you can check it out it that’s true. Yes I’m a trekkie. 🖖🏻 Yes I…
On my chat shift tonight with Samaritans and it’s always interesting. I think we get a different demographic who prefer…
Did you hear about 10K‘s report
Did you hear about 10K‘s report on Salesforce Talent Ecosystem Report? It’s a fascinating read and talks about the #BusinessAnalyst…
It’s training day 1 for our fall cohort of new #Samaritans volunteers today. This is a fear that worry a…
Subscribe and bookmark! Especially if you’re a #BusinessAnalyst or an aspiring one! Otherwise, move on to those kitty vids. 🐱…
Oh my word… the magic that comes out when the recording is turned off! 👀 Here in the post-event Q&A…
ARE THERE ANY DATA MIGRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS FIELD?! (The Data architect in me thanks you for this question Vanessa!)…
Jodi Hrbek – you got great shoutouts
Jodi Hrbek – you got great shoutouts at our virtual Trailblazer Community event for Business Analyst tonight! Our audience were…
“I need a new field.” 😬 Tracy Greene – working through what could go wrong when a user asks for…
For the very first time this coming Tuesday (on 27 Aug), I will be co-hosting the next #BadAssBA with Vanessa…