This BA Brew is all about bravery, asking what bravery is and how we can develop it. Charlie Payne and Kay Hardy join the Brew Crew to try to answer these questions and more. The discussion includes: how elements of police training can also apply to business analysis; a great skiing analogy; building resilience; psychological safety; power poses; and more.

During the BA Brew, Amy Cuddy’s TED talk Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are is referenced, and also her book Presence.

#businessanalysis #businessanalyst #bravery #challenging #businesschange #bodylanguage #managingstakeholders #designthinking #BA

If you are interested in Agile, you won’t want to miss this. This BA Brew is all about the second edition of ‘Agile Business Analysis: Practical guidance for IT professionals’ by Lynda Girvan and Debra Paul.

Watch as the authors discuss what readers can expect from the revised and updated edition, including:

⭐ the latest Agile developments

⭐ new techniques

⭐ new thinking

⭐ real-life case-studies where experienced practitioners share challenges and lessons learned.

The wide-ranging discussion covers organisational agility and the role of the BA; the relevance of the Agile Manifesto; how to apply Agile in an informed and relevant way; the increased focus on the customer and much more.

#agile #IT #businessanalysis #businessanalyst #businesschange #digital #agilebusinessanalysis

In this special edition of our BA Brew, it’s BA Question Time! Mike Williams presides as AssistKD’s Fiona Bruce with Debra Paul and Jonathan Hunsley as the panellists.

This week’s questions are:

❓Should BAs understand commerce/business?

❓How can a BA team of 20 balance sharing knowledge and experience as a team with time on their own projects?

❓How do I bring together a group of professionals working in and around the business analysis space together to add value to the business?

❓Business Analysts often feel overlooked. How can we raise the profile of the profession?

❓What’s going to be in fashion in the BA World this year?

Do you have a question for our next BA Question Time? If so, please email us on BABrew@AssistKD.com or post on our wall on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn.

The following BA Brews and articles are relevant to the answers given:

Adair’s model of action centred leadership addresses balances the team, the task and the individual.

This article on inclusive leadership.

This article on establishing a centralised Community of Practice.

This article on creating a BA Service Definition.

BA Brew 68: Stepping Beyond the BA toolbox

BA Brew 44: Building a BA Community

#BAQT #businessanalysis #businessanalyst #BAtoolkit #leadership #teamwork #business