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Chapters
IIBA Denmark Chapter Holds Its First-Ever Event
On June 18, the IIBA Denmark Chapter held its first-ever event, bringing together a diverse group of business analysis and industry professionals.
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Certification
Real Skills. Real Readiness. Unpacking the New ECBA
Miss the webinar on the new ECBA? Get all the highlights here. Learn what’s changing with the ECBA exam, why it matters, and how IIBA is helping you prepare with confidence.
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Business Analysis Techniques
From Chaos to Control: How Business Analysis Transformed a GxP Process in Pharma
When a manual pharma process put compliance at risk, I used BABOK Guide-aligned practices to rebuild it from the ground up—improving lives, decisions, and data integrity along the way.
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Member Articles
Introducing the Rock Crusher: A Flow-Based Model of Backlog Management
The Rock Crusher offers an agile approach to backlog management, highlighting the power and simplicity of this essential tool in modern agile organizations.
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Announcement
Outputs vs. Outcomes: How Please Hold Rethinks Business Impact
Get a sneak peek into Please Hold, the new story-driven business novel by Fabrício Laguna. Blending strategy, mindset shifts, and humor, this excerpt explores the critical difference between outputs and outcomes—one of the novel's key themes.
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Certification
Getting Real-World Ready With the New ECBA: What You Need to Know
The new ECBA isn’t harder. It’s more accurate. Learn how the evolution of this foundational certificate prepares aspiring business analysts for real-world challenges with applied knowledge and strategic thinking.
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Business Analysis Community
5 Big Ideas That Lit Up BBC 2025
Held from June 9 to 12 in Phoenix, BBC 2025 delivered everything we’ve come to expect from the marquee conference—engaging speakers, fresh perspectives, and meaningful connections.
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Business Analysis Techniques
Adapting Knowledge Areas to Elevate Your Business Analysis
Applying BABOK Guide knowledge areas, tools, and techniques boosted my work quality, confidence, and collaboration. This blog explores real-world scenarios, showcasing how learning and certification helped me support colleagues and promote business analysis effectively.
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Business Data Analytics
The Business Analyst’s Challenge: Bridging the Gap Between Business Needs and Data Products
Straddling the business and technology worlds is a valuable skill, but a difficult one to develop. Read on to learn three practical techniques to help you grow this skill.
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The Analyst Catalyst blog is dedicated to the practice of business analysis and its professionals. Talented writers with a business analysis story to tell are always welcome to contribute.
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Aim for between 1000 and 1500 words. Your writing style should be conversational, direct, and informative. A dash of humour always helps, but too much jargon doesn’t.
Organize your content into sections to improve readability. Avoid overly long paragraphs and use bullet points sparingly. When including someone else’s work, credit that person or embed a link to the source (bonus points if you do both).
When it comes to topics, your imagination is the only limit. If you want to narrow it down, we feel these resonate the most with readers:
- Agile and Product Ownership Analysis
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