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Comment on Business Analysis Conference 2010 by Mubi

Mubi — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:50:04 +0000

Great!

Comment on Why IIBA Islamabad Chapter and CBAP? by Ali

Ali — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:29:10 +0000

Aoa again,

Thanks for quick reply. Yes alhamduLillah I have 5+ years experience in Business Analysis and have also started studying BABOK for CBAP. I am not sure there is any study group based in Karachi at the moment. I will look forward to setting up of an examination center in Pakistan.

Thanks,
Ali

Comment on Why IIBA Islamabad Chapter and CBAP? by Kashif

Kashif — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:35:42 +0000

Waalaikum Assalam Ali,

Good to know that you are interested in CBAP. Some of the guys from Pakistan are planning to do the certification and last week have started a CBAP study group as well but that is based in Islamabad.

I don’t think currently there is any prometric centre to host the exam in Pakistan though i plan to start hosting the CBAP exams in PK.

Contact either me or Tahir Anwar(tahirgee@gmail.com) to get updates in future on this.

CBAP requires 7500 hours (5 years) experience to sit in the exam. If you have the required experience that’s good otherwise IIBA has recently launched another certification which require only 2.5 years experience.

I hope the above answers your questions.

Best,
K.

Comment on Why IIBA Islamabad Chapter and CBAP? by Ali

Ali — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:32:23 +0000

Aoa Kashif

Pleasantly surprised to find this blog post on CBAP in Pakistan. I am based in Karachi and am interested in pursuing this certification. I wanted to confirm is it possible to appear in this exam from Pakistan. Has IIBA allowed Prometric to conduct this exam?

Thanks!

Comment on Why IIBA Islamabad Chapter and CBAP? by Kashif

Kashif — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:23:10 +0000

Walaikum Assalam (Allah’s blessings on you as well) Imran,

Thank you for your comments. It is good to know about your interest in IIBA and CBAP.

IIBA Islamabad chapter has recently been launched and couple of knowledge sharing events have been organized by the chapter recently.

Yesterday, a webinar was organised on passing the CBAP exam. I will email you the presentation on preparing for CBAP exam. It will answer most of your questions.

I appreciate if you keep in tocuh with the chapter. IIBA Lahore chapter is also getting started very soon and i think Faisalabad region would come under Lahore - unless you want to start an IIBA chapter in Faisalabad.

Please contact Tahir Anwar (Tahirgee@gmail.com) to get in touch with Islamabad chapter.

Couple of guys from IIBA Islamabad chapter are already preparing for CBAP exam.

We plan to start a study group which you can join as well.

I hope the above all answers your questions?

Best,
K.

Comment on Why IIBA Islamabad Chapter and CBAP? by Muhammad Imran

Muhammad Imran — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:40:43 +0000

AA;

my name is imran and i am from faisalabad. well, i read your blog and pretty much interested in this one of yours (CBAP). Kindly tell me has the IIBA officiallly launched CBAP in Pakistan and is there any Chapter currently running in Islamabad?
kindly update.

M. Imran. PMP.

Comment on Tools Used By Business Analysts by Kashif

Kashif — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:33:30 +0000

Hi Sunita,

Good to see your comments.

Its great that you have excellent RASPOC or soft skills.

Have you used MS Visio or Rational Rose? I have seen most of the companies using MS Visio and some Rational Rose.

For requirements Management and collaboration, it depends which tools being used by the company. I have never used Doors but heard its very good.

Comment on Tools Used By Business Analysts by sunita

sunita — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:13:54 +0000

what do you recommend for someone like me. i’ve ten years experience and excellent RASPOC or soft skills…. but i have only used ms office or google apps for documentation and collaboration. what technologies are a must for me to learn in order to compete today?

Comment on Rocks into Gold by Kashif

Kashif — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:05:01 +0000

Hi Hans,

thank you for your comment. It’s good to know that your company introduced the same methodology years ago means Agile existed in the past as well.

I would like to know more about your methodology.

Comment on Rocks into Gold by Hans Vogel

Hans Vogel — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:05:57 +0000

Agile is in many ways similar to a methodology my company introduced many years ago. In order to deal with the difficult circumstances present in wartime, particularly when resources were so often provided by the camps, work would be split up into smaller packages to ensure resiliency against worker death or other trifling inconveniences. It worked so well that Vogel, Vogel and Vogel still use it to this day.