In March 2014, the Project Management Institute (PMI) introduced a new certification called the PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA). The business analyst field has had two certifications up until this point: the Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®) and the Certification of Competency in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®), both administered by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).
This webinar details the differences between the CBAP, CCBA, and PMI-PBA certifications, explains why a PMI-PBA certification makes sense, and defines what you need to do to become certified.
PMI is in the process of producing two Practice Guides: a Practice Guide for Business Analysis (projected release 10/2014) and a Practice Guide for Requirements Management (2015) which may be included in the reference library for the certification exam.
Brian Weiss, PMI’s Vice President, Practitioner Markets, answered the question of “why?” this way: “It all has to do with organizational success and positive business outcomes. The PBA is just one of many things PMI is working on in this area – others include things such as a Knowledge Center of Excellence on Requirements Management or critical documents like a Requirements Management Practice Standard and a Business Analysis Practice Guide. The main reason behind developing these products stems from our research - PMI’s Pulse of the Profession illustrated for us that when projects fail, inaccurate requirements gathering is often the primary reason (32% of the time). Poor requirements management practices are the second leading cause of project failure. There is a clearly a problem here and no one is doing enough to solve it, so PMI has made a commitment to do so.” [Source: Blais, “The PMI’s Professional Business Analyst Certification: Competition or Collaboration?”, BA Times, May 2014, http://www.batimes.com/steve-blais/the-pmis-professional-business-analyst-certification-competition-or-collaboration.html ]
The project experience requirement can be included in the 7,500/4,500 hours of Business Analysis experience noted. This means you do not need to document an additional 2,000 hours above and beyond what has been provided for the Business Analysis experience. Of the documented Business Analysis experience, at least 2,000 of those hours must have been spent working on projects. Active PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement
The full list of 40 categories can be found on the PMI website in the PBA Content outline.
Stakeholder Analysis and Management
What are some of the other circumstances or conditions that would allow a combined project manager and business analyst to successfully bring in the project?
What are some of the other circumstances or conditions that would allow a combined project manager and business analyst to successfully bring in the project?
What are some of the other circumstances or conditions that would allow a combined project manager and business analyst to successfully bring in the project?
What are some of the other circumstances or conditions that would allow a combined project manager and business analyst to successfully bring in the project?