Comments on: What Does Success Look Like? https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/what-does-success-look-like/ We'll Help You Start Your Business Analyst Career Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Doug Goldberg https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/what-does-success-look-like/comment-page-1/#comment-430633 Fri, 02 Aug 2013 14:17:11 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=12022#comment-430633 Howdy Laura:
In re-reading some of your old posts that get me pumped up at being a BA, I came across this one again. Love it. What’s funny now is that I have a whole new view on the topic. This last week I took the idea of “what does success look like” to some BAs I manage in the context of the projects they work on. In building out a presentation on what I called expectation setting and management, I realized that there are different levels of it and the level depends on the context. Here in your article, it’s all about defining for oneself what career attainment and other large format goals show themselves as when achieved. In my context, we are trying to actively define what success looks like with our customers at the beginning of projects so there is agreement that success has actually been achieved. A shared vision if you will.

So it struck me that whether we are having the conversation with ourselves in private, or having it as a shared endeavor, we MUST have it. Without success criteria, our perspectives, and potentially those of others, change along the way as the environment around us changes. We are then constantly striving for a moving target.

]]> By: Laura Brandenburg https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/what-does-success-look-like/comment-page-1/#comment-430632 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:12:11 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=12022#comment-430632 One of our LinkedIn group members read this post and had this to say. I found her words so encouraging and inspirational that I just had to share them here:

“In deciding to push forward and just keep moving towards the goal for a career transition without leaving the comfort zone of a secure paycheck, I started reaching out to PM’s and others in IS & T. This lead to a contact who is a BA in the company. My initial request was to secure a few ‘shadowing’ opportunities, but, based on some of my initial questions about documenting, processes, etc., the opportunity evolved into an extended meeting invite approved by the BA’s Team Lead to sit in on a Application Developer’s meeting for Standardization. After the meeting, the Team Lead commented that she was impressed by the questions I asked and even made mention that the department will be looking for a Junior BA in the next calendar year once funds for an FTE can be solidified. She suggested that I keep in touch.

Do I have a BA job – No.
Did I get paid to participate – No.

After the initial excitement, these thoughts and others like them began to bring down the high. However, after reading Laura’s blog, I realized that, yes, I am a success and the it was perfectly okay to feel excited and accomplished for what I was able to make happen! It was a small step in the journey, but I am encouraged to keep moving forward.

So for all of you trying to make the transition, Keep Moving Forward!”

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