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Where Can You Go? The Competitive Career Advantage Provided To Business Analysts Laurie Gray Practice Area Lead, Delivery Leadership Slalom Consulting, Atlanta GA
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Page 1: Where Can You Go? BA...• User experience • Product management • Leadership • Consulting • Being a better BA is also an option Let’s get workshoppy! Goal: identify areas

WhereCanYouGo?TheCompetitiveCareerAdvantageProvidedToBusinessAnalysts

LaurieGrayPracticeAreaLead,DeliveryLeadershipSlalomConsulting, AtlantaGA

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Hypothesis:BeingaBusinessAnalystcanprovidealaunchpadtomanycareeropportunities.

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StronglyDisagree

Disagree Neutral Agree StronglyAgree

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Aboutme

• Consultant• Practicearealead• Mentor

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Aboutyou

• Techvsbusiness?• Careerchangersvsstraightliners?• Orgduration?• Totalcareerduration?

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Someassumptions:whatdoesaBAdo?

• Businessanalysisplanningandmonitoring• Requirementselicitation&collaboration• Requirementslifecyclemanagement• Strategyanalysis• Requirementsanalysis&designdefinition• Solutionevaluation

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CoreBAskillassumptionsforourdiscussion

• Criticalthinking• Writtenandverbalcommunication• Planning• Organization&logic• Problemsolvingskills• Visualmodeling/visual communication• Facilitation &elicitation• Relationship management• Self-management• Comfortwithambiguity coupledwithadesiretogetthings inorder• Abilitytoacceptfeedback

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Afewoptionstoconsidertoday• FrequentlyHeard:

• Userexperience• Productmanagement• Leadership• Consulting

• BeingabetterBAisalsoanoption

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Let’sgetworkshoppy!

Goal:identifyareasofgrowthopportunities• Yourteam/table’smaterials:

• Skillsworksheetandjobdescription(s)

• Task:• Doaquickself-ratingasabaseline.• Reviewthejobdescription• Performaquickgapanalysisofthecoreskillsvswhat’srequiredforthatjob(completetheworksheet)

• Asagroup,preparetowalkusthroughyourfindings

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Workingtime…

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RoleComparisonConversation

5minutes: Self-Rating12minutes: RatetheRole3minutes: Scribe

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Findingsdiscussion

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Foreachrole:

Requisiteskillsforthatjob?OverlapwithcoreBAskills?HowcanbeingaBAhelpyoutogetthere?Whataresuggestedapproachestoclosingthegap?

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TheUniversalTruth

• Softskillsarecriticaltosuccess• Abilitytoinfluence• Adaptability• Activelistening• Relationshipdevelopment/trustbuilding

• Credibility• Presentationskills• Conductingeffectivemeetings• Executivepresence• Managingpartnerexpectations• Effectivebusinesswriting

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SoftSkillAssessmentandExploration

2minutes: RateYourself3minutes: TagtheRole10minutes: Discussion

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AfewmoreUniversalTruths• Theroleofmentorsandcoaches• Gainingknowledgeinparticulardomains• Thinkseriouslyaboutyourportfolio

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Hypothesis:BeingaBusinessAnalystcanprovidealaunchpadtomanycareeropportunities.

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StronglyDisagree

Disagree Neutral Agree StronglyAgree

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