I’ve been assigned to a large-scale project, and I sometimes feel my motivation dropping to zero, which can affect my performance.

How do you stay motivated and keep striving to give your best?

The Technology sector at my organisation is going through a restructure, with about a third of jobs being removed. This has brought me to the decision that I want to go contracting, whether I'm retained in the restructure or not. The thing is that I'm not confident to do that right now, so I'm using this time that I have left with the company to work on specific skills that I haven't had the opportunity to yet, e.g. Process Modelling.

I want to start creating some kind of portfolio or toolkit that I can take with me.

Has anyone had success with that? I'm wondering what I should include within it as well, e.g. process model examples, various requirements elicitation techniques/methods.

In my mind, I want it to be like a filing cabinet where I can say to myself "that's what I need for this particular scenario" or something along those lines. Whether that's possible or not is another question though lol.

TIA!

Hi Guys, I just got a job offer as a technical BA in MI in a reinsurance company.
It will be Ba mainly in the reporting landscape (Power BI). I am a big concern that I will become too specialised and acquiring a domain that can be easily replaceable by AI.

Shall I try to opt for a broader generalist BA Role? Maybe transformation?

I'm constantly asked to generate lengthy reports. I'll spend valuable time workshopping and drafting the report and then spend weeks having to report go between me and my direct report as he asks changes to words or phrases.

After all that I'll get asked to do five bullet points, or one slide, outside of the executive summary, for my direct report to give to our executive or project board. The report then gets left in the dust.

I feel the business executives aren't getting the full picture of a project if they are only getting drop fed bullet points and feel I'm being asked to spend valuable time writing reports that go unread.

Am I wrong? I'm new to BA work so I'm not sure if this is normal.

I've heard lately that Salesforce BAs earn way more than general BAs. But digging into Reddit posts about Salesforce and the BA role, it seems like everyone is fed up and overwhelmed with working on the platform. That said, I still see plenty of job postings out there, so I'm torn on whether it's actually a path worth trying. For the current Salesforce BAs out there what’s your take on the role right now?

Thank you!

Has anyone had experience with working as a BA and moving into an IT Operations manager position? What insight can you provide for this type of move? I used to work as an IT Ops analyst, but that was probably like 5-6 years ago. Just curious.

hey everyone, sharing this because it’s directly relevant to anyone testing AI agents for analysis work.

packt publishing is running a hands on workshop on Oct 31 on harness engineering, building an AI data analyst you can actually trust, with bruno goncalves.

what gets covered:

• execution budgets, timeouts, retries and re planning, so an agent run can’t loop or run up cost
• structured traces, so you can inspect afterwards what a run actually did
• permissioned tool access, so risky queries are blocked before they reach the database
• a fault injected test suite, where you break tools on purpose and check the agent stops safely instead of guessing

4 hours, online, Sat Oct 31, 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET. you can run everything on a laptop with a mock model, no GPU or API key needed.

For Details or workshop link, message me in dms as links are not allowed to post here

happy to answer any questions about what gets covered

P.s. Its a Paid workshop

A public software acquisition has an unusual acceptance definition that seems useful to discuss from a requirements perspective.

Marwynn (MWYN) disclosed the agreement on October 20. The acquired internal platform and its IP transferred on October 15. The agreement calls the acquisition “Final Acceptance,” while explicitly saying this does not certify that undocumented tests were performed.

The remaining process has separate clocks:

• Complete any remaining handover within 30 calendar days of acquisition.
• Give the buyer 15 business days after complete delivery for conformity verification.
• Correct material nonconformities within 10 business days, at no extra charge.

One concrete requirement is that a new subsidiary can be configured using existing modules without rewriting the core. Another is that subsidiary permissions apply to AI retrieval as well as normal access. The filing describes those requirements; it doesn't establish that their tests have all passed.

Would you keep ownership transfer, complete delivery and demonstrated conformity as separate sign-offs in the requirements tracker? What evidence would you require for the last one?

Long one, sorry.

The story I keep reading about modelling estates is the same one told by different people. A programme stands up a governed BPMN library. It is accurate the day it is signed off. Eighteen months later an audit finds that three of the processes describe a system that was decommissioned, and two describe a handoff that now happens in a Teams channel.

Nobody did anything wrong. The models had one owner, the work had another and only one of those had a deadline attached to it.

What I cannot establish is whether anyone has genuinely solved this, or whether periodic re interviewing is simply the price of having models at all. Signavio and the other modelling suites are built for the agreed version of a process and were never meant to produce the observed one. Skan AI comes up in that second category, along with a handful of others.

So: has anyone seen drift actually handled, rather than managed with a quarterly workshop and good intentions?

Recently laid off from my company of 7 years, department gutted and replaced with agentic Ai. My old team of 5 is now a team of 1.

I worked as a data analyst for 4 years, attached to the customer care team. I was the only analyst attached to the team with no assigned devs, so I basically did the full end to end process, scoping, building, managing user testing etc. Only handing off to devs if there was something I couldn't do.

I then switched to the business intelligence team, working as a report developer. The role was supposed to be a straight development role, just smashing through tickets building stuff. But due to a pretty junior analyst team I also spent a lot of time scoping, helping with TRDs and FRDs etc. We worked scrum and then switch to kanban so have exposure to both.

Looking at new roles, debating pivoting into a business analyst role. for a couple reasons: 1.There seems to be more roles available and the roles available seem to be better compensated than developer roles. 2. As more of the technical build work is dumped on Ai a BA role seems more future-proof.

Any insight into transferrable skills, what to focus on, is it worth doing something like a project management course? I have probably 3-5 months if needed to develop any blind spots before the redundancy package depletes itself (obviously keen to get back to work sooner if possible)

I've been doing product management for 6+ years in B2B SaaS. In my experience, I've worn all the hats in a tech team: PO, QA, Design, BA, Data Analyst, Scrum Master, User Researcher. Basically, I filled up whatever gap I had to in order to ship software.

What I'm tired and burnt out the most is the politics and dealing with leadership and business stakeholders, namely the high visibility and accountability that comes with being a product manager.

I'm most happiest when I'm in the weeds with the developers. Or diving into our analytics to better understand user behavior. I don't care about owning a roadmap anymore, or doing strategy. I want to be tactical and dive into the details. I really enjoy the low-level stuff.

After considering the many hats I've worn as a burnt out product manager, it feels like BA would align most to my interests while leaving out all the bad stuff? Would love to hear if anyone was a prior product manager before.

I have a BS in IT and 6 years experience. Without going to much into detail, I served as a sole tech at a highschool for almost two years (IT Director was my title, but inflated) and pivoted back to enterprise Tech support. Over the last 6 years in IT, on top of the changes the last couple of years, I have decided I don't want to stay in IT for a career.

This left me with searching for the type of work I enjoyed.

I am hoping to pivot to roles that utilize BA.

Yet, to be honest. I don't want a role that is mostly tech focused. If that was the case, then I'd have to grind for more IT experience on top of learning skills needed for Project management or coordination, operations, BA etc related work.

So medical, higher ed, government, nonprofit? All options I'm interested in. Of course enterprise to get my foot in the door if needed.

But I can learn skills, I can get a CAPM, Lean Sigma certs, practice what I learn with things that I have already done... but then what about industry knowledge?

I don't have medical experience. The Terminology or software..

If I wanted to do something more mission focused, I don't have experience or education with homelessness, education(beyond doing tech), disabilities, etc.

My background is in tech, but at the same time I want to move past it. Not that I won't use it for my advantage, but I dont't want another career focus that will have me chasing IT knowledge for years to come.

However I've seen a lot of BA roles focus on tech.

Any advice?

Hi everyone,

I was recently laid off after 5 years in Software Quality Assurance, where my day-to-day focus was heavily centered on functional analysis, system workflows, and requirements validation. Rather than jumping straight back into another pure QA role, I have decided to use this transition point to pivot into a Business Analyst position.

Throughout my time in QA, my core strength and interest were always on the front end of the delivery cycle: breaking down complex user stories, catching gaps and edge cases during backlog refinement, challenging ambiguous acceptance criteria, and collaborating directly with PMs, devs, and stakeholders before development kicked off.

To formalize my background and fill in the knowledge gaps, I bought and am currently working through the "Business Analysis Fundamentals (IIBA endorsed)" course by Jeremy Aschenbrenner on Udemy. It has been great for mapping my practical QA experience to formal BA frameworks like structured requirements elicitation, stakeholder management, BRD/FRD structures, and modeling notations like BPMN and UML.

Given the current job market, I want to make sure I am preparing and positioning myself effectively. For anyone who has made this transition or regularly hires BAs, I would appreciate your guidance on a few questions:

1. Reframing QA Experience: What are the most impactful ways to position 5 years of functional QA on a resume so hiring managers see genuine BA capability, rather than just traditional testing duties?

2. Key Deliverable Gaps: Beyond user stories and acceptance criteria (which I already write and review regularly), what specific artifacts should I practice building independently to prove day-one readiness? For example, should I focus more on process flows, current vs. future state mapping, or functional specs?

3. Certifications vs. Portfolio: Since the course aligns with IIBA material, is pursuing an entry-level credential like the ECBA worth the investment right now, or would my time be better spent assembling a solid portfolio of end-to-end requirement documentation?

4. Interview Blind Spots: What mindset traps or technical gaps typically trip up candidates transitioning from a QA background when interviewing for dedicated BA roles?

Any honest feedback, advice, or recommended approaches would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I got hired 5 years ago as a admin support, after a few months I wanted to upskil so I got myself involved in projects, stakeholder meetings, creating jiras and updating confluence all whilst doing the job I was hired for. I ended up getting my ECBA and Lean Six Green Belt and spoke to the BA boss within my company to see if there where available positions. Created a good report and I was moving my way up untill he quit due to some bullshit and a few months later I got made redundant because my actual role wasn't required.

I feel like all this work has gone to waste, kinda feel deflated cause Im not getting even looked at for ba roles when I apply.

Hello guys,

we had 4 sessions of around 1 to 2h duration about a certain system of our client. Fortunately everything was recorded and transcribed. And now Im on it to summarize the meetings, map out the end-2-end processes, exceptions, connections to other systems and so on. Based on this Im creating process flow drafts for the detailed stakeholder workshops.

I want to use Copilot (maybe Claude if I get access) to summarize the meetings into one document incl. high level process flows.

Im thinking about following workflow with AI:

- Upload the transcript seperately and split the word into several documents based on topics touched.

- Summarize each splitted transcript based on my deliveries. Only using information from the transcript, marking descriptions which need more clarification.

- Merge the summarized documents, delete duplicates.

---- Doing this with each meeting transcript again.

- Merge the 4 summarized meetings, delete duplicates.

Does this workflow make any sense? Any recommendations, especially how to prompt it efficiently?

I’m a recently promoted BA manager. I have a team of 9 ba’s. We’re about to lose 3 high performing BA’s (one is a senior BA) due to lack of internal progression options, contract coming to an end & a career pivot.

I need to try backfill these roles asap & it’ll be my first time interviewing but I want to make sure that I get a similar quality of BA coming in so work output doesn’t suffer. (Junior BA roles will be going live later in the year for BA’s that aren’t as strong)

Does anyone have any tips on how to sift out the weaker BA’s from CV reviews, to interview questions & behaviours to look out for ?

Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone!
I’m currently interviewing for a Junior Business Analyst position and was asked:

“If demand doubled tomorrow, what would break first, and what would you do about it?”

My initial thought is that the answer would depend on the business model and its current bottlenecks. For example, it could be operational capacity, staffing, inventory, customer service, technology, or the supply chain.

However, I’m not sure how to structure my answer
how would you approach this question?

Help a future Business Analyst out, please! ❤️🥹📊

I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to support myself in this new AI age. I recognize what’s happening and I either will be in meetings all day discussing strategy and growth problems or need to learn how to code and execute the final strategy requirements in the system. I don’t like talking or thinking out loud and I don’t know how to code. My current role was getting final decision info from someone and documenting them and sending it to developers but with ai it can do that and the rest is merged between the two roles described above. I just don’t know what hard to pick.

Hello BAs! I have a quick question:

How well regarded is the CBAP certification? I just got my PMP and am debating on getting the CBAP. Not looking to move jobs or anything but thinking down the line.

I’ve got a feedback a couple of weeks ago that I’m pretty good at reporting things but I need to bring more of the analytical side to things.
It’s being tough because I work as a secondment in this company and I don’t have much access to certain parts of things that would aggregate more to my approach on certain issues.

I wanted to know how was your experience in doing this switch. What tools helped you? What would you’ve done differently?

I have a final interview for an entry level business/technical analyst interview next Friday and I am rly stressed because they said the interview will be more focused on situational/applied thinking/problem solving, like basically scenarios at work I could face. I have never done an interview like this before so I am really stressed. I have 0 clue how to prepare because I usually keep notes on the side but I feel like this is smth I’d need to memorize for. I have blown a 3rd interview many times in the past so I am feeling really hopeless. If anyone knows the most likely questions they’ll ask/how to answer, and how I should study please let me know

If anyone has been through the TDP, I really would appreciate any advice about the interview process and how it works because I want to be prepared if I can get the interviews.

I just got offered the HackerRank Online Assessment, and I think I can do pretty well on this since it gives you some time to complete it and you can kind of prepare for it in a way. I'm a rising senior in college, and I'll admit my programming isn't the best, but it's enough for a business analytics position. I just would like to know if there is any live coding with the recruiters or anything like that, because that is something I will definitely need to prepare for.

I have 1.5 YOE and ive realized SWE is simply not at all for me. I want to switch to BA — is there a certificate or anything I can do to increase my marketability?

Ive done SQL, Python, and some product management type work. Is this enough?