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🛠 6 Key Principles for Designing REST APIs 🛠

REST has emerged as the most popular API architectural style, particularly with the advent of microservice architectures.

When designing REST APIs, adhering to these 6 core principles ensures your APIs are scalable, maintainable, and easily integrated.
#cheatsheet
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Hi, analysts! 👋

Do you know how to distinguish between urgent and “urgent”? Share your secret, please 😄
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Hi, analysts! 👋

Today we are sharing with you 3 Tips for Effective Virtual Meetings 🧑‍💻

Many business analysts are finding themselves working from home right now and needing to elicit requirements and conduct virtual meetings. If you’ve been historically used to working in-person, this can be a huge shift.

In this video, Laura Brandenburg shares 3 quick tips for being more effective and why virtual meetings are a huge opportunity to leap forward in your career. 🎥

Virtual Meetings Are a Huge Opportunity 🙌

Opportunity #1 – Strengthen Your Communication Skills

Challenges bring opportunities. Facilitating virtually allows us to strengthen our communication skills. Stronger communication and facilitation skills will enhance your business analysis abilities.

Opportunity #2 – Shift to Virtual Work

Successfully managing virtual work can support long-term virtual work opportunities and reduce travel requirements, especially for business analyst consultants. Mastering virtual meetings now could lead to more flexibility in your future work arrangements.

Virtual Meeting Best Practices💭

Best Practice #1: Stick to Tried-and-True Techniques

Take your most engaging in-person techniques and adapt them online:

Observation: Use screen sharing instead of desk-side observation.
Brainstorming: Utilize shared Google docs or virtual whiteboards.
Visual Models and Documentation: Continue creating documents like business process models and use cases online.
Don't let virtual settings compromise the quality of your meetings. Adapt your best practices to keep meetings interactive and engaging.

Best Practice #2: Verbalize Body Language

Online meetings obscure body language, so it’s essential to verbalize more:
- Actively pause for feedback.
- Prepare specific questions for each section of your document.
- Seek explicit confirmation to ensure no feedback is missed.

Best Practice #3: Be Clear on Your Business Analysis Process

Clearly communicate the next steps and how each task fits into the big picture:
- Follow an established framework.
- Keep everyone informed and engaged with your process, enhancing your leadership role and effectiveness.

Embrace these opportunities and best practices to excel in virtual meetings and elevate your career as a business analyst. 🚀
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Good morning, analysts!
Have productive week and do not forget to timely check your project documentation✌️
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🗂𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗮𝗳𝗸𝗮 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 🗂

This handy infographic breaks down the key players in the Kafka world!
#cheatsheet
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Hello, friends 🙋

Have you ever had to deal with stakeholders who resist change? Share your experience with your colleagues! Your thoughts and your opinion can help someone in their career 🙇

Meanwhile, we will consider such a topic as Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders Who Are Resistant to Change 🤚

As business analysts improving business processes, it’s not uncommon to encounter stakeholders with a deep-rooted suspicion of IT and the belief that no matter what, the solution is not going to work for them.

So what do you do? In today’s video, Laura Brandenburg shares 5 ways to help difficult stakeholders on the path to change. 🎥

💡5 Strategies to Engage Resistant Stakeholders💡

1. Build an Individual Relationship

Invest time in building a 1:1 relationship with the stakeholder. Show genuine interest in them as individuals, not just project participants. Building trust and understanding outside the project context can pave the way for deeper, more productive conversations.

2. Understand Their Current Business Process

Take time to understand their current processes. Why do they prefer their existing methods? Understanding their workflow and pain points without trying to change them immediately builds trust and ensures the new solution meets their needs.

3. Focus on Their Problems


Identify and address their frustrations. Engage them by solving problems they care about, even if it requires adjusting the project scope. This approach can turn resistance into support as they see tangible benefits from the new solution.

4. Share Wins


As the project progresses, share success stories. Highlight how others are benefiting from the new system. Positive examples can encourage hesitant stakeholders to give the new solution a try.

5. Secure Higher-Level Support


Sometimes, higher-level support is necessary. Escalate the issue to directors or VPs if needed. Higher-level stakeholders can leverage their authority to ensure compliance, emphasizing the importance of the project’s success for the organization.

Not All Resistant Stakeholders Will Change

It’s important to recognize that not every stakeholder will embrace change. Some may choose to leave rather than adapt, and that’s okay. As business analysts, our role is to facilitate change and support stakeholders, but we can’t force anyone to change.

By employing these strategies, you can effectively engage resistant stakeholders and help them see the value of new technologies and processes.

You’re doing great work. Thank you for what you do.
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Good morning, analysts 🤓

If you analyze your experience, you will notice that the most commonly used method of identifying requirements is an interview 🎙
Then ask yourself, have you used it effectively? Did it satisfy your needs in those cases?

Today's post is dedicated to 📝 5 Common Mistakes When Using the Interview Technique for Requirements Elicitation 📝

1. Not Enough Preparation
Interviews may seem simple, leading to underestimated preparation. Often, BAs outline basic topics and rush to meet stakeholders without thoroughly reviewing project documentation or understanding the stakeholder's role. This results in missed key questions and incomplete information.

2. Asking the Wrong Questions
Lack of preparation often leads to broad, irrelevant questions. Over-preparing can also result in a list of closed-ended questions that don’t delve into details. Both approaches can lead to incomplete information and misunderstanding stakeholder needs.

3. Ineffective Use of Stakeholder Time

Interviews can drift off-topic, wasting valuable stakeholder time. Overrunning or poorly managed meetings can cause stakeholders to lose focus and disengage, leading to missed insights and requirements.

4. Poor Documentation of Interview Results
Failing to accurately document interview findings can lead to incomplete or ambiguous requirements. Notes taken on paper or whiteboards can be forgotten or overlooked.

5. No Follow-Up
Follow-up is essential for validating requirements, clarifying ambiguities, and getting feedback. Without it, issues remain unresolved, and stakeholder buy-in may be lacking, missing opportunities to refine and improve the requirements.

And the most important - review your work and be open for feedback and improvement no matter how many years of experience you have.
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Hi, analysts

Word of the day – Constraint 🚧

BABOK® defines it as an influencing factor that cannot be changed and that places a limit or restriction on a possible solution or solution option.
There is another definition of constraint, by Karl Wiegers in Software Requirements: constraint is a restriction that is imposed on the choices available to the developer for the design and construction of a product.

What is TOC


The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a management philosophy developed by Eliyahu Goldratt that focuses on identifying and improving the bottleneck in a system. The underlying principle of TOC is that any system has a limiting factor that constrains its output and profitability. The entire system can be enhanced by identifying and improving the bottleneck.
The TOC approach is rooted in the idea that businesses should maximize their throughput or the rate at which they generate revenue rather than focusing solely on reducing costs.

Read more about The Theory of Constraints (TOC) here 👈
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Hi, analysts!

Just a kind reminder to all us that we are a part of a magic 🔮🧞‍♀️
#BAmeme
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📧 Email like a Boss 📧

This handy cheat sheet could help you find a right words for your emails and sound more confident! 😎
#cheatsheet
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Hi, dear analysts!🌐

Happy to share Top ChatGPT Alternatives to Transform Hours of Work into Seconds!
Check out the following for a quick overview, and explore the links below for more details!

✍️ 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴:
• ChatABC (Simplify your writing process): https://chatabc.ai
• Jasper (Craft engaging content effortlessly): https://www.jasper.ai
• QuillBot (Rewrite and enhance your text): https://quillbot.com
• Text Blaze (Speed up your writing): https://blaze.today

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• Elicit AB (Research made interactive): https://elicit.org

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• LOVO AI (Generate realistic voiceovers): https://lovo.ai
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Hi, analysts!👋

Surely many of us are already familiar with the Notion workspace. Many people have long liked this tool for its wide functionality and very pleasant UI.🙌
But, among other things, they have prepared something else interesting for us!

🚀 Notion has just turned into a website builder 🚀
Now the service can create pages from documents (!) at the touch of a button.

Once again, all you need to do is select the dock and click Publish. You can choose from 10 thousand ready-made templates for any task, SEO settings and Google Analytics, etc.

To collect websites for free with one click — here.
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Hi, analysts! 📚

Business Analysis has been evolving rapidly over the last 2 decades and is continuing to do so. Although there are tons of business analysis books available in the market. The below best business analysis books helps readers understand different aspects of business analysis and will help Business Analysts perform well in their day to day responsibilities.

📕 A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide) 📕

The BABOK Guide by IIBA is the global standard for Business Analysis, covering five key perspectives: Agile, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Business Architecture, and Business Process Management.
Purchase the BABOK Guide

📘 The PMI Guide to Business Analysis 📘

This PMI standard supports adaptable BA practices across industries. It integrates with PMI’s BA Practice Guide and includes agile techniques like the product roadmap and Kano analysis.
Purchase the PMI Guide to Business Analysis

📙 Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide 📙

This guide offers practical BA advice for all levels, covering best practices and applications from Needs Assessment to Solution Evaluation.
Purchase Business Analysis for Practitioners

📗 CBAP/CCBA Certified Business Analysis Study Guide, 2nd Edition 📗

Covers all objectives for the CBAP and CCBA exams. Includes real-world scenarios, practice questions, and access to an interactive learning environment.
Purchase the CBAP/CCBA Study Guide

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Agile and Business Analysis 📒

Introduces Agile methodologies for BAs, emphasizing benefits like better stakeholder engagement and customer understanding. Ideal for learning or working in Agile environments.
Purchase Agile and Business Analysis


🔖 What other Business Analysis books do you recommend? Share your favorites!
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Hi, analysts!🌞

Flexible methodologies have not only advantages, but also disadvantages, don't they? 🌝
#BAmeme
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Hi, dear analysts!👋

⚙️ Let's start our week with extremely useful cheet sheet dedicated to CI\CD ⚙️

CI/CD, which stands for continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment, is a set of practices that automates the software development process.

This means that code changes can be integrated, tested, and deployed more frequently, which can help to improve the quality of your software and get it to market faster.

High-Level CI/CD Workflow:
• Development: Code is developed in a local branch.
• Pull Request: Code is submitted for review.
• Peer Review: Code is reviewed for quality.
• Merge: Approved code is merged into the main branch.
• Continuous Integration: CI pipeline automates build, test, and deploy.
• Build: Code is compiled into an application.
• Testing: Application undergoes unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Pre-Production Deployment: Tested app is deployed to a pre-production environment.
• Production Deployment: If pre-production tests pass, the app is deployed to production for end users.
#cheatsheet
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🚀 Startups of the Month 🚀

Hi, analysts! 👋

Every month, Vestbee evaluates the European startup landscape, identifying startups worth our attention.
Each featured startup offers unique insights and opportunities relevant to the BA community. From AI-driven communication solutions to cutting-edge digital identity management, these startups are shaping the future of business operations, user experience, and data security.

🤝MAVA 🤝
MAVA is an intelligent Chrome extension that analyzes your messages in real-time across multiple platforms such as Slack, MS Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Discord, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and Telegram. It identifies potential issues in your text that may seem rude, manipulative or passively aggressive and suggests more polite alternatives.
Simply add MAVA from the Chrome Web Store to your browser, and it immediately enhances your communication on supported platforms.
(Insight for BAs: Improve team communication and productivity across diverse cultural backgrounds.)

🪪 Ubives 🪪
Based in Budapest, Ubives offers a user management solution that transforms online identification and data management. With passwordless technology, it streamlines logins, reduces administrative tasks, and enhances security, aiming to advance online security and convenience in digital identity management.
(Insight for BAs: Enhance user experience and security in digital interactions.)

🙇 QuestPass 🙇‍♀️
QuestPass offers a non-monetary “paywall” based on the attention economy. Users access content for free by answering a simple question about an ad. This guarantees advertisers 100% attention and comprehension, while publishers earn significantly more without closing their content to the public.
(Insight for BAs: Innovate content monetization strategies without sacrificing user accessibility.)


🌍 Lognium 🌍
Lognium redefines global digital interactions with its Identity Wallet, offering passwordless logins, banking, and document-free travel. Founded by Ferenc Kulcsar, Lognium uses Selective Disclosure and Zero Knowledge Proofs, positioning itself as a leader in secure, interoperable digital solutions.
(Insight for BAs: Implement advanced digital identity solutions for enhanced security and privacy.)

🔗 Blockchain Solutions 🔗
Based in Prague, Blockchain Solutions develops SatsPay, an all-in-one solution for SMEs to trade globally. Utilizing the Lightning Network for B2B transactions, SatsPay aims to resolve trade-related challenges and connect enterprises to global markets.
(Insight for BAs: Facilitate seamless global trade through blockchain technology and secure payment solutions.)
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Hi, analysts!👋

During our career, many of us have faced localization issues on projects. For mobile applications and websites that supports many markets, the issue of localization can become very acute! 🎯

Below are several translation and localization management tools that have proven themselves very well in the market.💯
Feel free to learn more about them and choose any one that suits the needs of your project!

Crowdin - Crowdin is AI-powered localization software for teams and businesses. Automate the translation of your content with 600+ apps and integrations.

Lokalise - Elevate your content with AI's brilliance. Get context-aware, impeccable translations in seconds. Translate, shorten, rephrase, and more. It’s effortless communication without the guesswork or time-consuming tasks.

Phrase - The Platform is built to automate, manage, translate and integrate content at great speed, accuracy and scale. This means your customers are more engaged, fewer resources are needed and business impact is delivered quickly.
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Hi, analysts!🙋

Today's post is mostly dedicated to our novice colleagues 🌱
Therefore, today we will consider Top 8 Business Analyst Certifications for Beginners 📈

The certifications that are open to beginning professionals can serve as foundation-level credentials that you can use to further advance your career in business analysis. In this article, we discuss what business analysis is and the top business analyst certifications available for beginners.

💡Business Analysis Certification (BAC)
- Level: Entry
- Prerequisites: None
- Benefits: First certification for entry-level BAs. Qualifies you to work as a business analyst.

💡Entry Certification in Business Analysis (ECBA)
- Level: Entry
- Offered by: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
- Prerequisites: 20 hours of technical training
- Benefits: First step for aspiring BAs. Prepares for advanced certifications (CCBA and CBAP). No renewal required.

💡Agile Analysis Certification (AAC)
- Level: All levels
- Offered by: IIBA
- Prerequisites: Beneficial to have Agile experience
- Benefits: Focuses on Agile practices in BA. Requires renewal every three years to stay current with Agile trends and applications.

💡Foundation-Level Business Analyst Certification (CFLBA)
- Level: Entry
- Offered by: International Qualification Board for Business Analysis (IQBBA)
- Benefits: Prepares for further certifications after gaining professional experience. Covers business processes, requirements analysis, and solutions.

💡Certified Professional of Requirements Engineering (CPRE)

- Level: Foundation, with advanced options
- Offered by: International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB)
- Benefits: Entry-level certification leading to advanced levels. No renewal required, certification does not expire.
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Hi, analysts!👋
I wish you all a good weekend ahead and no sudden bugs on Friday night!

POV: When it comes to decide who is going to fix a bug 🐞
#BAmeme
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📊 Survey: What Topics Interest You the Most?

Hi, analysts! 👋

As we continue to grow and learn together in our BA community, it's crucial to ensure that the content we share is valuable and interesting to you. Please take a moment to participate in this quick survey and let us know which topics you would like to see more of in our channel.
Your input is invaluable! If you have any other topics you'd like to learn about, please comment below.💛

Thank you for your participation! Your feedback helps us make this channel a better resource for everyone.
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