How I can test my business analyst skills? How I can know I am a good business analyst?

I agree, thank you!

Let me add a bit to what my friend Sergio has already offered
--You do need to clearly understand the role and functions of the business analyst, and that includes the ability to understand and work within the culture of the organization. Each organization prefers to look and act differently, and many have particular views of what the business analyst does, and how deeply involved they get in a project
--Seek out others who have become analysts and ask them two things: (1) what steps did you take to get where you are now? and (2) What resources become most important to you in doing your analysis and providing your views on change
--Then, start to collect good sources for best practices, past efforts, etc that will serve as your textbooks. Over the years, I have nearly 1 terabyte of old project reports, presentation, benchmarking, etc that, while not current, remind me where I got the data and narrow the research time.
One thing that is important: Remember to keep track of your failures as well as successes. Failures tell you what not to do next time.
Happy New Year.
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" If you can take a project with moderate to high levels of requirements complexity and be able to successfully elicit and analyze the needs, wants and desires of a diverse group of stakeholders "
My answer: Yes I can:)

" If you can effectively act as the "voice of the customer" for the rest of the delivery team when questions and/or changes are brought forward "

My answer: Yes I can:)

If you can cultivate a positive, mutually beneficial relationship with your project manager

Yes, I can:)

If you are comfortable tailoring your approach to the needs of a project.

I am very comfortable, and I succeed many times in that.

But the problem when I read the BA books, I feel I need more experiences, many information, many tools and many templates, so sometimes I don't know how I have to deal with all these information at one time. Any suggestions?

Thanks for this valuable information, my question now is: if I am working on three different projects in 3 different domain as you mentioned in your examples, do I have to follow the same steps (standard BA steps) in all projects? May you think this question is a stupid question, but really I need to know the answer to this question please, thank you!

Sincerely,
Hawazin

For any domain, 60% of process work will be the similar and remaining 40% will vary with functionality, interfacing teams and expected output, etc.

the answer to your question is...

You should work on 40 % for every new domain you want to embrace.
This area needs, a bit of learning (initial learning curve) with new templates and work sheets.

For Example. Lets assume you are meeting 5 seasoned BSA of 5 different domains who have worked for 5 years in their respective domains.

If you ask 10 questions ( start to end of the project) on how they deliver the role of BSA
The answers to 60% of questions will be similar and matches with each other. Remaining 40 % will vary.

At the end of the day, the point i want to make is,... if you working on different domains keep your learning curve, on the items which is bit different then the normal and try to master the same with your previous experience.

Thanks a lot for your valuable information, I appreciate your reply. I did what you said many times, even I asked a simple question related to BA process but most of the Business analysts (in my LinkedIn network and not here), they don't like to answer the questions. Business Analysts on LinkedIn are keeping posting articles, but they don't want to answer any question related to their filed or trying to teach someone who at the beginning of the road.

Thank you!

Hawazin

Harwazin and Munis, sorry to write an answer. If you search into the PMIs and IIBAs guides (remember: because are guides then are a list of proven practices, no more than that) you will find an activity where you have to "select the solution approach". It does mean that for different solutions (solution = "the thing" to be created PLUS "the process" to create it) the business analyst is on charge to help the organization the way to do things best fits for the intiative. For example, in my actual work place, we have five different life cycles defined and the same people is working at the same time in more than one initiative, for example using predictive and adaptive life cycles at the same time.