What is the value of the site for you?

Is it the kind of information?
The quality of information?
Is it easy to find the information?
Does it save you time?
Is the information useful to you?
Does it help you look good – more professional – in your job?

What do you find valuable in the site?

Could you post to my Facebook fan page and let me know? Resources for Business Analysts Fan Page I left a “bribe” for you on the fan page as a thank you for your participation. This is a paper I have never before published on creating acceptance criteria for iterations/sprints/etc. This should be useful to anyone on any kind of Agile project.

Thanks much!

Geri

Every month on the second Thursday, for one hour in a teleseminar/webcast I will answer the questions you have posted at this site: Ask Geri a Question. This one hour session will be live at noon Eastern time. The recording and transcripts will be posted afterward on the Resources for Business Analysts site.

When you ask a question, I’ll put your email address on a list that I am only using to send monthly reminder notices of the Ask Geri sessions. This is a completely separate list from any other mailing I do. Every email has a link at the bottom where you can unsubscribe if you are no longer interested in the Ask Geri monthly calls.

The next session is coming up in a few days, on Thursday January 14th at noon and 7pm Eastern time. Be sure to enter your question here Ask Geri a Question and I’ll send you full details of the call.

I look forward to your questions!

Geri

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Iain: Hey – Look at this press release.
Karen: What about it?
Iain: Wyyzzk, Inc. and Procuit Inc. are announcing the release of a new website for the professional development of Business Analysts.
Karen: Ho hum. Not another one.
Raj: Wyyzzk – isn’t that Geri’s site? You know, the one where we get all those great tips?
Iain: Yes. And this new site is really different.
Karen: How so?
Iain: Well, they are planning to use Lean Startup and Agile software techniques to let users plan the features and development.
Karen: Really? They are letting us plan the site?
Iain: That is what it looks like.
Raj: I see there is an audio interview of Geri telling her vision for the new site. Let’s listen.

Press Release

Wyyzzk, Inc. and Procuit Inc. Bring Professional Development Services to Business Analysts in Information Technology
Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson
The Big Idea Guru

3 minute interview on new site

I want to be more effective at providing you the information you need.

Because I want to help out more people, I’m asking you to help me by answering a couple of questions.

Please post your answers as comments to this post. You will see a comment link in the header of this post. Click that link to find the comment box.

Thank you!

Geri

• Assuming you are working as a Business Analyst, what kind of information do you need in your job? Where do you go to look for that information?

• If you are not working as a Business Analyst, but want to be, what kind of information do you need to prepare to be a Business Analyst? Where do you go to look for that information?

For clarification, imagine that there is somewhere a database of information you could access to do your job. What would you put in that database?  While domain specific knowledge (insurance, finance) would be useful, I am more interested in finding out more basic information that any Business Analyst would need to know.

I am getting really interesting feedback. You can see the early results here:

Click Here to See the Results

Taking the survey is so easy! It is multiple choice and should only take you about a minute or so to complete. There are comment fields throughout where you can give me feedback in your own words.

Just Click This Link to add your feedback to the survey page:

Click Here to Take the Survey

The website will be designed to match your needs that you tell me. This survey will stop at 100 people or the end of the day Thursday January 10. So if you want your desires to count, click the link now and take a minute to tell me what you want from me in 2008.

Thanks so much!

Geri

This is so easy! It is multiple choice and should only take you
about a minute or so to complete. There are comment fields
throughout where you can give me feedback in your own words.
Just click this link to go to the survey page:

Click Here to take survey

The website will be designed to match your needs that you tell
me. This survey will stop at 100 people or the end of the day
Thursday January 10. So if you want your desires to count, click
the link now and take a minute to tell me what you want from me
in 2008.

Thanks so much!

Geri