Hello from the COE Blogosphere!  BobtheBA  is here ready to scratch the surface of the Competency Center.  And before I get started I want to give a big shout out to Angela Wick and committee that did such an amazing job on the IIBA Competency Model.  You should really check it out on the IIBA website!

Felicitations, Bloggers! BobtheBA (https://twitter.com/BobtheBA) is here ready to talk Center of Practice and your opportunity for success.

Salutations!  BobtheBA https://twitter.com/BobtheBA here.  Are we ready for another BACOE blogisode?  Let’s go! 

So in my last blogisode I talked about the many paths to Business Analysis maturity and the need for you to first start with root cause analysis to determine why you think you need a BACOE.  Did you go through your Five Whys exercise?  If so, you may have found that your organization lacks standards, and the root cause for that might have been something like insufficient budget to document or the previous attempts at standardizing failed so we can’t do that again!  Or perhaps you have some standards and you found out that your organization lacks the ability to measure Business Analyst performance effectively.  That might have had a root cause like dispersed management in a matrixed environment.  Whatever the reasons, both make sense to move forward with a full blown BACOE model, right?  Well hold a minute!  This is why I say getting started is hard. 

Hello to all you crazy passionate practitioners and supporters of business analysis! Welcome to Bob The BA’s slightly askew, often strange but true and informative business analysis planetoid (a bit cramped but I can’t afford a large planet). No matter what I write, perspicacious or preposterous (two words one should never use in a requirements specification) I want to hear from you; your opinions, your experience, your insights. Why? Because we all learn from the collective whole – the different knowledge, behaviors and experience each of us brings to the table makes us stronger.