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Time Travel - If you could go back in time to your first year as a BA, what would you tell yourself.

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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
(Let's try to keep this on topic of BA knowledge and assume the lottery numbers is a given)

For me the answer is::

You don't have to know it all AND coffee is currency
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
What exactly is meant by BA here ?
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1 reply by Steven Zachary
Dec 25, 2015 11:57 PM
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Business Analyst.
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MAEN QADDOURAH Project Director| AJ SAUDI Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
why we are introducing lottery?
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1 reply by Steven Zachary
Dec 25, 2015 11:57 PM
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Not much for the humor are you?
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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dec 25, 2015 11:35 PM
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why we are introducing lottery?
Not much for the humor are you?
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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dec 25, 2015 2:09 PM
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What exactly is meant by BA here ?
Business Analyst.
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1 reply by Rami Kaibni
Dec 26, 2015 12:24 AM
Rami Kaibni
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Thanks Steven, got it when I read your other blog.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Dec 25, 2015 11:57 PM
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Business Analyst.
Thanks Steven, got it when I read your other blog.
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Sandilyan Ramadoss Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Probably, I may try to do something different. Try to correct from what I learnt in past, but it's still kind of boring to go through same which we did in the past, so something new could help like exploring new ways of doing things and evaluating outcomes. It's a wild thought....
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1 reply by Steven Zachary
Dec 26, 2015 3:38 PM
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Boring for you, but not for someone else.

My intention with this thread was to try to discover people's greatest learning moment or "ah-ha!" moment when looking back as past performance. Call it a lessons learned if you will. The top lessons learned of all the lessons learned.
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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dec 26, 2015 11:37 AM
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Probably, I may try to do something different. Try to correct from what I learnt in past, but it's still kind of boring to go through same which we did in the past, so something new could help like exploring new ways of doing things and evaluating outcomes. It's a wild thought....
Boring for you, but not for someone else.

My intention with this thread was to try to discover people's greatest learning moment or "ah-ha!" moment when looking back as past performance. Call it a lessons learned if you will. The top lessons learned of all the lessons learned.
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1 reply by Sandilyan Ramadoss
Dec 27, 2015 2:01 AM
Sandilyan Ramadoss
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True, I agree to your point. If you have to go through same set of incidents (moving back to the past time period), it might make you feel bored rather let’s call it as uninteresting or could even make you enthusiastic it depends on person to person and case to case... Further, we know that there’s always place for betterment in any projects, so we may run into risk of making the project go endlessly! just adding my thought in this.
In reality, it is we cannot spend more time doing R&D on what’s happened in the past unless it’s required for next step. Let’s try to avoid looking back, just keep moving, prevent those issues on what’s coming up next. What’s happened is already happened and is rework only, learn from it and proceed next.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
I would tell a new BA that the key is influencing people: you don't need to know it all if you can get if from other people.
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1 reply by Steven Zachary
Dec 27, 2015 2:30 AM
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Influencing or communicating?
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Sandilyan Ramadoss Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Dec 26, 2015 3:38 PM
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Boring for you, but not for someone else.

My intention with this thread was to try to discover people's greatest learning moment or "ah-ha!" moment when looking back as past performance. Call it a lessons learned if you will. The top lessons learned of all the lessons learned.
True, I agree to your point. If you have to go through same set of incidents (moving back to the past time period), it might make you feel bored rather let’s call it as uninteresting or could even make you enthusiastic it depends on person to person and case to case... Further, we know that there’s always place for betterment in any projects, so we may run into risk of making the project go endlessly! just adding my thought in this.
In reality, it is we cannot spend more time doing R&D on what’s happened in the past unless it’s required for next step. Let’s try to avoid looking back, just keep moving, prevent those issues on what’s coming up next. What’s happened is already happened and is rework only, learn from it and proceed next.
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1 reply by Steven Zachary
Dec 27, 2015 2:29 AM
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So, I take it you are against reuse then?

I think there is great waste in reinventing the wheel every time. If you don't have enough time to evaluate your work, which should have been done in the definition phase, then how will you know if you are truly successful. Further, how will you ever improve.

Being bored seems....well...trivial??
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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dec 27, 2015 2:01 AM
Replying to Sandilyan Ramadoss
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True, I agree to your point. If you have to go through same set of incidents (moving back to the past time period), it might make you feel bored rather let’s call it as uninteresting or could even make you enthusiastic it depends on person to person and case to case... Further, we know that there’s always place for betterment in any projects, so we may run into risk of making the project go endlessly! just adding my thought in this.
In reality, it is we cannot spend more time doing R&D on what’s happened in the past unless it’s required for next step. Let’s try to avoid looking back, just keep moving, prevent those issues on what’s coming up next. What’s happened is already happened and is rework only, learn from it and proceed next.
So, I take it you are against reuse then?

I think there is great waste in reinventing the wheel every time. If you don't have enough time to evaluate your work, which should have been done in the definition phase, then how will you know if you are truly successful. Further, how will you ever improve.

Being bored seems....well...trivial??
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1 reply by Sandilyan Ramadoss
Dec 27, 2015 2:41 AM
Sandilyan Ramadoss
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Steven, can you explain why you want to go back to the past? My stand point here is, we have learnt in course of time about our mistake (on-going). Why not we keep moving and use lessons learnt to prevent any further damages?

I am not getting your point in "reuse".
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