CBAP Certification

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IIBA certifications are gaining increasing traction since the past year or so. Since providing support to the certification community is one of our key objectives, I decided to interview Michael Gladstone in this CommunityCast episode. Once you go past the “Why CBAP (or CCBA)” barrier, the big challenge is understanding the various requirements and prepping for it.

It is quite interesting to learn about various facets of the IIBA professional certifications for business analysts. If you’ve always wanted to learn more about CBAP, CCBA and how they got started and what their history was like, you are in for a treat. We discuss many more interesting perspectives; please see below for a sneak peek of the episode.

Here is Mike enlightening us with everything you need to know about the IIBA certifications:

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If you are a practicing business analyst, you will eventually be asking yourself this question.  The truth is, you already know a number of reasons why you should be certified.  There are also some things that you might not know.  We’ll touch on both of these later, but first let’s talk about the about some certification myths.

CBAP® Myths

Guaranteed Superiority

We have all heard this one before.  “I met Frank, who is a CBAP, and I was not impressed.  I already know more about Use Cases that he does, so clearly Click to continue