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.

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

📒 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!

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

🚀 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.)

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.

📊 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.

Hi, analysts!👋

🚀 Mitigating Risk with Gap Analysis, Risk Assessment, and Feasibility Analysis 🚀

When creating a change strategy, it's crucial to ensure your solution fits the organization’s culture, works with existing technology, and has future support. Here’s how to mitigate risks effectively:

🔍 Perform a Gap Analysis
Identify the current and future states of the organization.
Document and compare these states to find gaps.
Prioritize gaps to tackle the most critical issues first.

⚠️ Identify and Assess Risks
Identify internal and external risks during the transition.
Assess risks by probability, impact, and mitigation measures.
Prioritize risks based on their criticality and the organization’s risk tolerance.

🛠 Conduct a Feasibility Analysis
Check project constraints, assumptions, product risks, dependencies, culture fit, technology availability, support capability, schedule, and organizational readiness.
Ensure the proposed solution is realistic and implementable within constraints.
Conducting these analyses helps mitigate risks and ensures successful project implementation.

Happy learning! 📚

Hi, dear analysts! 🖖

Today I propose to review 📈The Evolution of Data Architectures: From Data Warehouse to Data Mesh 📈

Over the past few decades, data architectures have undergone a remarkable transformation to keep pace with the ever-increasing volume, variety, and velocity of data.

Let's take a closer look at this journey:

1️⃣ Data Warehouse (1980s):
- Designed for structured data storage with ETL processes.
- Data Mart: A subset of a Data Warehouse for specific business needs.
- Schema-on-Write: Data is transformed before storage.

2️⃣ Data Lake (2010s):
- Stores structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Schema-on-Read: Schema is identified when data is read.
- Popular for Data Science and Machine Learning.

3️⃣ Data Lake House (Late 2010s):
- Combines the structure of Data Warehouses with the flexibility of Data Lakes.
- Retains Schema-on-Read while ensuring structured querying.
- Metadata and Governance Layer ensures data integrity and accessibility.

4️⃣ Data Mesh (2020s):
- Treats Data as a Product with a product-centric lifecycle.
- Addresses scalability and complexity challenges in monolithic data architectures.
- Marks a shift towards decentralizing data infrastructure.
#cheatsheet

Hi, analysts!👋

It is extremely important to share your professional experience with colleagues in order to build a strong community of analysts! 🤝
Therefore, today I am sharing with you the thoughts of our colleague Emil Abazov, Senior IT Business Analyst at Andersen Lab 🔆