{"id":1882,"date":"2017-08-14T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2018-09-16T19:52:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:52:37","slug":"added-cbap-certification-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/posts\/2017\/08\/14\/added-cbap-certification-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Added CBAP Certification Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I sat for and passed the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP<\/a>) exam issued by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA<\/a>). I sought this certification simply to communicate my experience throughout my career. I now list this credential as the first item in the list of my certifications<\/a>. I found it easy to prepare for and found the test as annoyingly convoluted as the PMP exam.<\/p>\n

The credential requires 7,500 hours of documented business analysis experience over the previous ten years (I could have listed a lot more, plus even more over the prior eighteen years), recommendations from two references (provided by the owners of the last two companies I worked for), and 35 contact hours of formal study with an approved provider (I took part in an online, interactive seminar series provided by Adaptive US<\/a>), as well as the exam. The seminar provided by Adaptive was fairly well done and required a decent amount of interaction from the students, including needing to give short presentations on the subjects we were studying. I was able to leverage my experiences and resources on my website to demonstrate my experience very clearly.<\/p>\n

Adaptive’s customer service was flat-out amazing. I’ve never encountered a company that does all the little things they do with such speed. Examples include paying your membership fees to IIBA and your exam fees, providing feedback, and forwarding information.<\/p>\n

Adaptive’s training materials include a number of online question banks. I went through about 300 questions and reviewed the answers after each session. I skimmed through the BABOK Guide<\/a> (v3) to get a feel for the structure of the material. I spent a few hours putting together a matrix of techniques used in the different knowledge areas as well as my own version of the outline grid. I noticed that Adaptive’s materials could used a bit of editing and cleaning up but, even more interestingly, I think I may have found an inconsistency in how one of the Guidelines and Tools is labeled in different knowledge areas (Requirements Management Tools \/ Repository in the Requirements Life Cycle knowledge area vs. Requirements Life Cycle Management Tools in the Requirements Analysis and Design Definition knowledge area). I plan to write to the IIBA to ask if this needs to be clarified.<\/p>\n

Here is the two-sheet Excel file<\/a> I made up to organize my thoughts. (Ignore the scratchwork to the right side of the first sheet.) I’m not sure the end result was useful per se<\/em>, but the process of creating it got me used to the structure and vocabulary, which was probably helpful. I made up a similar study grid for the PMP exam in 2009, which is here<\/a>. That actually proved to be more useful for me. I’ll update it some time after the new PMBOK Guide<\/a> (Sixth Edition) is released in September.<\/p>\n

I used this experience to extend my PMP certification out to 2021 and recently paid to have my Scrum certs extended to 2019. For my next trick I need to find out how to extend my Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification beyond early 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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