Supporting Business Analysis Professionals In And Around The Greater Toronto Area

Volume 4   Issue 24  August 27, 2008

• Monthly editorials and commentary on the new Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, version 2.0
• Special offers in Business Analysis certification training from our Chapter Sponsors
• Enhanced presentation postings from our meetings, including companion articles by the presenters.
• CBAP examination preparation questions and commentary.

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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Preview the Members Only Area

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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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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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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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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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:

• five years (7,500 hours) in last 10 years of business analysis work experience§
• experience in 4 out of 6 knowledge areas
• minimum high school education
• two professional references
• twenty one hours of professional development in the last 4 years.

The Knowledge Areas covered by the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge are:

• Enterprise Analysis
• Requirements Planning and Management
• Requirements Elicitation
• Requirements Analysis and Documentation
• Requirements Communication
• Solution Assessment and Validation

The BABOK® also provides coverage of the following mandatory areas of professional experience:

• Communication
• Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Business Information Technology

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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