Inspired by you, I have also submitted my application on August 15th (I have been holding it for over a 1 month) and now waiting for my results…..keep going.. you motivate me….Congratulations and Good Luck..
thanks.

Actually, I rarely quote the BABOK because I would sound very strange, but I do make more chatty version: “I generally work in the realm between IT and business, helping all the stakeholders understand the organizations goals in order to create systems that support those goals.” Note that I say generally, although I’m finding myself move out of IT and into enterprise analysis and dealing with business systems and communcation, rather than IT systems specifically.

Anyway, I found the structure for my elevator speech in Section 1.2.

Good to know! Part of what I was also trying to say was that even outside of analysis the “agile” environments I worked in were not purely agile. For example, in one case the development team worked in sprints but did not do reviews and we did not have defined product ownership. Don’t want to fret those details here except to say that how much adoption constitutes “agile” for the purposes of providing meaningful feedback on the extension would be a good line to draw in the sand.

Laura,

Yeah…in fact that approach is perfectly valid within the context of the Agile Extension. Most of the existing techniques are still perfectly usable in agile. But you’ll be able to judge for yourself in a few weeks.

Hi Curtis,
Yes, perhaps I learned this in philosophy too…40-50 page introductions of blubber..blah!

While I think the BABOK supports reading my jumping around, I can see that all the pieces aren’t going to fall into place until I complete my deep dive of all sections. So there’s a bit of needing to jump around, dig back through, explore further, think big picture, etc….that’s all part of assimilating the framework that’s there and making sense of it for me, so that this isn’t just an exercise purely in memorization, but also in learning.

Yes, the UX stuff is fun and relevant! Someday I’ll be able to invest some more attention to that and hopefully bring the most relevant pieces to business analysts!