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Supporting Business Analysis Professionals In And Around The Greater Toronto Area |
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Volume 4 Issue 24 August 27, 2008 |
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Get Ready for September! This Saturday August 30 we will be launching our Fall 2008 program of activities, events and web features for the Chapter. We are firming up the details now. Look for:
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LinkedIn Group Available for Members
We invite all members of the Toronto Chapter to join our Linked In Professional Network. LinkedIn provides social and professional networking similar to Facebook, but geared towards the establishment and maintenance of professional contacts. To join the Chapter group, click here. |
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As a Toronto Chapter member you have access to a wide variety of resources. The pages linked in this area will give you a sneak peek at them. As a volunteer organization, we rely heavily on the contributions of our membership. So if you have something to say, joining up will give you a terrific platform to share your insights and experience with the Business Analysis community within the Greater Toronto Area. Click here to jump to the Members Only Preview page. |
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NEW! Sponsor and Patron
News Updates Page Our Chapter Sponsor and Patrons enable us to bring you many of the services we provide, through generous donations of time, resources and financial support. As a new service, we have created an area of our website where these organizations can promote events, news, product developments and other items of interest to the GTA Business Analysis community. Check it out by clicking here. This page is also now listed as a new permanent link in the About Us menu above. |
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Update: "Not Just Book
Reviews" Area Now Available to Members We are very pleased to announce that the reviews are starting to come in. As the title above suggests, this new service for our chapter members can be used for books, articles, white papers or anything else of professional interest to the BA community. Members can see the latest, and submit their own reviews, by clicking here. You will also now see this page as the first item on our For Members menu above. |
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Employers: Take Advantage of The Best BA Talent Pool in the GTA As an employer you need to attract, engage and retain top talent. You appreciate the critical role effective business analysis plays in project and business success. Now you can target your career postings directly at the Toronto Business Analysis Community. Our membership spans private and public sector verticals, and experience levels from Business Analyst through Business Architect. Click here to find out more. |
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| New Members: Still Waiting for Your Access Codes? |
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Sometimes it is difficult to
make out the writing on membership applications that are
written by hand. Recently we have had some email bounces
when attempting to send new members their access codes for
the Members Only Area. If you are a member who has not
received your access codes, please contact
Jason right away with the email address we can use for
you. Thanks! By the way, the site security for the Members Only area uses a challenge and response system. The first time you attempt to access anything in the For Members menu, a dialog box will appear, asking you to enter your Toronto Chapter (not your IIBA Central) login and password. Once authorized, you have complete access to the Members Only resources until you shut down that session of your browser. While we are on the subject, if you are an existing member whose contact information has changed recently, we really appreciate an update. This way we can continue to send you our monthly newsletters and advance information on upcoming events. |
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More About The CBAP Certification
We are frequently asked for more information regarding the Certified Business Analysis Professional certification. The CBAP is offered and controlled at the IIBA Central level, not at the Chapter level. This includes the scheduling of examination dates and locations. There is a process whereby a Chapter can request to host a special running of the examination, and we are currently investigating this. More information will be posted shortly. In the meantime, here are some important points to note. The CBAP is a practitioner certification, targeted at those who are currently Intermediate to Senior level Business Analysis professionals. It is not targeted at those just entering the profession. As such, the prerequisites for the CBAP do not simply include understanding the content of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) and passing the examination. You must also have the following:
The Knowledge Areas covered by the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge are:
The BABOK® also provides coverage of the following mandatory areas of professional experience:
For more detailed information, here is a link to the CBAP Certification Presentation created in November 2006. This is a PowerPoint® presentation and is 1.3 megabytes in size, so the download may take a while depending on your connection speed.
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