Hello everyone,
In our last chapter meeting, we had a very interesting topic presented by the amazing speaker Bertini Flaura Ndjanko, CBAP®, which was about “Why Every CEO, Entrepreneur, and Manager Needs Business Analysis”. Personally, this topic means a lot to me because I always advocate for the idea of changing the mindset of the decision makers from “Do we need BAs to implement a change?” to “How many BAs are required to enable the change?” However, my thoughts even went further and I asked myself how life would be without business analysts? How would changes be enabled without answering why we need them as a start? How to move from the current state to the future state? How to trace our requirements? And a lot more …
Eventually, I resolved that if no business analysis performed, then we will see a lot of fancy products on the shelves but without a proper justification of why we need them and how they made their way to the market. Furthermore, project scopes will be influenced more by the cost and schedules rather than the actual needs. In other words, changes will be fulfilled based on cost/benefit only, while the elements of the BACCM (business analysis core concept module) would be overlooked.
I would love to hear your answers to my question: how would life be without business analysis/analysts?
Well, asking this question doesn’t mean the business analysis didn’t exist before, and I believe that the business analyst inside us would scream to enable the changes in proper ways.
Now let’s move to different areas, which is our chapter news: we have a lot of work in progress, securing partnerships, planning for events and workshops, social networking, also recruiting new volunteers. So, stay tuned, and keep an eye on our newsletter and events page.
At the end of this monthly message, I sincerely thank all the amazing volunteers who worked hard to keep this chapter running.
I wish you all the best and thank you for being part of the business analysis community.
Regards,