Joe newbert is a Business Analist residing in Kaapstad (Cape Town), South Africa. Joe contacted me regarding the podcast after which i used the oppertunity to interview him on his experience. Joe has a M.Sc in computers science also he has extentsive BA experience in both the United Kingdom and since a few years in South Africa too.

Did you love the with Guy Beauchamps interview? (Episode 009: how to become a BA, and getting interviewed for a role) First sit down because you are about to be rocked of your feet even more! :)

The highlights:
* Can a truckdriver make a careerchange to being a BA?
* Recruiting a BA. What behaviorial things do you consider?
* How do you know if a candidate is bullshitting?
* The use of NLP (Neurolistic programming) during job interviews.

NEXT episode in this itnerview series;
* Acting as a project manager
* Interacting with stakeholders
* Your first day on the job
* etc etc.

Follow Joe on http://twitter.com/newbert

ENJOY the interview!! :)


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What?
• You help me onto a paid job, either freelance or fulltime.

For whom?
• me, Michiel Erasmus, a Dutch speaking South African with Dutch Government NT2 Staatsexamen qualification

When?
• Immediately

The small print.
• It’s a personal deal between myself and you the referrer.
• The finders fee is deposited straight into your personal bank account.

Credentials?
• Check my podcast for posetive reviews & feedback
• Contact my references mentioned on my CV

Contact me for further details. Restrictions and conditions apply.

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** I'd like to use this opportunity to promote myself **

Available: immediately.
References: Contact me
hourly rate: first two months for FREE, contact me for info.

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In today’s episode i will close off which started previously, clsoing of discussion with my toolset and why/how to use them.

In PRINCE2 my toolset are:
* The stakeholders, involving both the project sponsor and supplier.
* Project Initiation Document.
* Endstage reports
* simplified work breakdown structure, with asks and times assigned to team members.
* Lessons learnt
* Risk log
* Directory structure for filing documentation on your organisation' fileserver.

And some more general tips;
* Get out of bed with enough sleep fully rested out. No partying or crap like that the night before.
* Love what you do, your job shouldn’t be a drag, don’t force yourself to go to work. When you feel like that either change career or stay at home.
* Don’t go gossiping about work or other ppl. Listen to episode 13.
* Work towards quality, even if it means producing less, rather allow that what you do make be of excellent highest superior quality. You want don’t want them to throw you out of a project because you could produce much and fast, but nothing useable. What you want is that the client gets a useable product, and you feel proud so they will invite you back even 5 years down the line. I mean, instead of rushing through it.

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Welkom,

Een eerste profeditie van mijn podcast in het Nederlands!!

Een mindmap is een grafisch schema (of informatieboom), dat vertrekt van een centraal onderwerp en daaraan bijzaken en verwante concepten linkt. Een mindmap zou bij het studeren helpen details van hoofdzaken te onderscheiden en informatie logisch te ordenen in het gedachten. -- Wikipedia.



Vandaag bespreek ik Mindmappen en dan wel:
* Voordelen
* Nadelen
* Reden waarom je het zou moeten gebruiken
* Tips
* Software of papier geschreven versies
* Praktijk voorbeeld -- het plannen van je snowboard vakantie :).

VOORBEELDEN:

Figuur 1: Mindmap (kliek voor vergroting)


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Guys, i've been planning and improving myself for over 4 years now. Thats how long it took me to be able to present you with 40 minutes of value.

I will disucss how i combined a BA role and got some Project Management experience, and how to communicate effectively to stakeholders.

This podcast is divded into about 5 sections.
* First i tell you about the tooling i will use which are PRINCE2 and RUP.
* Secondly i will explain things to consideration before starting out.
* Thirdly, i will present Case Study for both IT and fictional non-IT project.
* Forthly, use the Case Study and apply all of the aforementioned stuff on the Case Study.
* And last but not least, closing statements.



Figure 1: The project sponsor description (click for larger version)



Figure 2: Reporting back to project board (click for larger version)


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Guys, i've been planning and improving myself for over 4 years now. Thats how long it took me to be able to present you with 40 minutes of value.

I will disucss how i combined a BA role and got some Project Management experience to boot! YEYEYAHAOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! :)

This podcast is divded into about 5 sections.
* First i tell you about the tooling i will use which are PRINCE2 and RUP.
* Secondly i will explain things to consideration before starting out.
* Thirdly, i will present Case Study for both IT and fictinal non-IT project.
* Forthly, use the Case Study and apply all of the aforementioned stuff on the Case Study.
* And last but not least, closing statements.

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http://twitter.com/bapodcast
http://linkedin.com/in/MichielErasmus

Ever wanted to do a requirements elecitation workshop interview but didnt know how?

Here is my own practical step-by-step approach presented to YOU my listeners. This podcast covers the planning BEFORE and AFTER the actual interviews. In a next podcast you will get the real deal when sitting with the users around a table.


FIGURE: Requirements elicitation mindmap

Topics covered:
* What is requirements elecitiation?
* How to involve stakeholders?
* Common sense to take into consideration before starting the interview.
* What to do when the interview is starting, the first 2 minutes.
* Closing the interview. The next steps?
* The do's and dont's of requirements elecitation.
* How to ask questions.
* The type of requirements workshops.
* Getting in contact with stakeholders. How?

SUID-AFRIKAANS (South African dutch) (Podcast is Engelstalig!)
* Wat beodl jy met is systeem yse vasstel?
* Hoe kan ek belanghebbendes betrokke maak?
* Gesonde verstand, voor jy begin met die onderhoud.
* Wat om te doen binne 2 minute na start van die onderhoud.
* Wat as jy klaar is?
* Dinge wat jy maar nie kan doen, of beter wel kan doen!
* Die tipe vrae om te stel.
* Soorte systeemeis onderhoude
* Hoe kan ek die mense kontak? Wat moet ek doen? Hoe?
Ever wanted to do a requirements elecitation workshop interview but didnt know how? Here is my own practical step-by-step approach presented to YOU my listeners. This podcast covers the planning BEFORE and AFTER the actual interviews. In a next podcast you will get the real deal when sitting with the users around a table.


FIGURE: Requirements elicitation mindmap

Topics covered:
* What is requirements elecitiation?
* How to involve stakeholders?
* Common sense to take into consideration before starting the interview.
* What to do when the interview is starting, the first 2 minutes.
* Closing the interview. The next steps?
* The do's and dont's of requirements elecitation.
* How to ask questions.
* The type of requirements workshops.
* Getting in contact with stakeholders. How?

SUID-AFRIKAANS (South African dutch) (Podcast is Engelstalig!)
* Wat beodl jy met is systeem yse vasstel?
* Hoe kan ek belanghebbendes betrokke maak?
* Gesonde verstand, voor jy begin met die onderhoud.
* Wat om te doen binne 2 minute na start van die onderhoud.
* Wat as jy klaar is?
* Dinge wat jy maar nie kan doen, of beter wel kan doen!
* Die tipe vrae om te stel.
* Soorte systeemeis onderhoude
* Hoe kan ek die mense kontak? Wat moet ek doen? Hoe?

Feature interview: Alex Papworth

Alex is a BA with many years of experience in the financial services industry. He also provides coaching and mentoring to wannabe BA's. Lets get some of his experiences!

In this podcast we discuss how in some projects the BA can also function as Project Manager, Alex explains the difference in roles. Michiel enquires how a BA functios in a very small team versus large team with PM assigned. Alex is involved in the London chapter if the IIBA, he explains how one would benefit from IIBA certification.
Would a hardcore programmer with little social contact transition to become a BA?
Mentoring someone takes a great investment of time. It must be worth it for both Alex and a student so not everyone qualifies.

Today's top tip is the Venture Voice (http://venturevoice.com) podcast featuring interviews with well known internet companies launched by courageous entrepeneurs. I learnt a LOT from listening to these sucessful people!

Contacting Alex Papworth: http://bamentor.com

Duration: 45mins 55 seconds
Download:
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Continuing to part 2 of the interview with Jinesh Parekh

Shownotes;
* Jinesh introduces Business Process Modelling;
* We go on to a technique discovering Business Processes;
* Explaining what Business Rules are for;
* Getting into Data Modelling and using class diagrams

Contact Jinesh on LinkedIn


Figure 1: Example Activity Diagram of a Business Process


Figure 2: Example of the Object Relations Model diagram


Duration: 29mins 39secs

In this first of 2-part interview aimed at junior analyst Janesh Parekh explains costing estimation, and how to do it.

Shownotes;
* We discuss how a Junior Analyst can do cost estimation;


Duration: 11mins 56secs