Comments on: 3 Ways to Get Feedback on Your BA Skills https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/3-ways-to-get-feedback-on-your-ba-skills/ We'll Help You Start Your Business Analyst Career Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Disha Trivedi https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/3-ways-to-get-feedback-on-your-ba-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-430008 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:45:22 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=7363#comment-430008 Laura,

Thank you for your all these great suggestions – I am going to take up on some of the ideas you shared. Thank you again for your input.

Michelle,

It was good to know that you have done something similar – thank you for sharing your experience.

Have a great day!

]]> By: Michelle Swoboda https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/3-ways-to-get-feedback-on-your-ba-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-430007 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:13:17 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=7363#comment-430007 Disha, if I could add onto Laura’s comment – I had a very positive experience with my first consulting role. On my last day I asked project manager for feedback. I asked him what I could improve upon and what I did well. That was a great experience and I valued the feedback.

]]> By: Laura Brandenburg https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/3-ways-to-get-feedback-on-your-ba-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-430006 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:01:29 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=7363#comment-430006 Hi Disha,
I think it’s perfectly legitimate to ask for feedback on your work and you shouldn’t feel this is selfish. Start small – an email or a short conversation. And keep it focused on trying to improve yourself as a BA, not on comparing yourself to the other BAs or dealing specifically with the expectation issues that the project faced. If the project manager heard good enough stuff that s/eh passed it along to you then it’s definitely worth following up for more detail.

Note that since people had a positive experience with you, it might be difficult for them to be critical and tell you how to improve. But understanding WHY they had a positive experience with you is just as important as it’s feedback you can use to build on later. Saying, “So and so mentioned that you were impressed with my work. Thanks very much, that’s always so nice to hear. As a consultant, I don’t get much direct feedback. Would you mind sharing what was particularly helpful for you so I can leverage this for future projects we are on together or future clients?” Then, if the discussion goes well, you might try to dig into pain points too and receive some input that’s more critical or development-oriented.

]]> By: Disha Trivedi https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/3-ways-to-get-feedback-on-your-ba-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-430005 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:09:16 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=7363#comment-430005 It is interesting that you write about this topic Laura. I just finished a project on which I was supposed to work only for a week, but actually stayed on for a month because the scope of the project was much much larger than originally thought by the project mgr. I was working with the architects and the product managers and it was an exciting time for me because I am new to the company and the product, while the product managers are of course fluent with both. I heard from the Project Manager today that the PMs and the architects were very impressed with my work. I was of course happy to hear that, but I wish I could ask them for more specific areas where they feel I could do even better. However, I am a consultant and not a full time employee. Would they perceive my request to receive feedback as a selfish request? I should mention that I was working on a portion of a very large project, and the first day when I went to the meeting, I realized that what we were trying to do in a week was not possible, but I didn’t say anything because there were multiple BAs who had been working on the same project, but different sections. I didn’t want to come in to the project and start suggesting changes – I instead went along for the first couple of days, and then started giving them suggestions, which were very well received. So going back to my question of sounding selfish, I gave the project a high priority when the time required, but I feel like this is the time when I can get something back from it. Too selfish?

]]> By: Akarsh MG https://www.bridging-the-gap.com/3-ways-to-get-feedback-on-your-ba-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-430004 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:32:09 +0000 http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/?p=7363#comment-430004 Hi Laura: Great article!

I usually take direct feedback and thoughts from stakeholders and also another way i do it make some key presentation on certain deliverables and get the feedback on those too.

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