If you have not heard from me for a while is because I was on maternity leave. We have a little boy now in our lives and things have changed much. The thing that has changed the most is my perspective on life, my goals and my direction. During my leave, I decided to work some more on my company. As you know for sometime now, I have had a desire to help business analyst around the world to pass the IIBA certification and become CBAP. To ensure that this could be a lucrative opportunity, I ran a survey to find out if people were interested in the IIBA exam. I collected responses from 200 participants who were very much intersted in the certification even though 24.3% of this group did not know that IIBA existed.
In 2007 while studying for the CBAP exam, I started putting together a dummied down CBAP study guide. I have yet to release this study guide. 2008 was a dead year for me. This year however, I am going to pick back up my project. I am going to release my CBAP study guide as well as some courses to help those who are ready to sit for the CBAP exam this year.
After running a CBAP prep webinar for the Atlanta IIBA Chapter and other face to face study groups, I am ready to focus on this full time. I want to make it manageable for others to study for the test. It's easy to procrastinate or give up when the task at hand seems overwhelming. I have been there before. Taking the CBAP without guidance or any type of materials to help me study for it (beside our wonderful BABOK), it felt hopeless. I volunteered to start the study groups in Atlanta to help me stay focussed and have some accountability to taking the test. Luckily for me, it worked. I had wished that there was a guide, a course or anything that would help me understand the test and know how to go about studying for it.
Unfortunately, there were none. So I started developing some for others.
If you are planning take the CBAP exam this year, complete my survey and you will be the first to know when I release my materials.
You won't have to wait too long.... and you will pass your cbap exam....
