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Updated: April 6, 2026

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IIBA Weekly is your trusted pulse on business analysis everywhere—spotlighting community stories, ideas, and updates you might have missed. Stay connected, stay inspired.

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Reframing and Reshaping Business Analysis—Part 3: Learning From Past Transformations

In this third instalment of “Reframing and Reshaping Business Analysis,” Filip Hendrickx examines how lessons from agile, product thinking, and DevOps inform the AI shift. He introduces a three-dimensional expansion model to help business analysts adapt their role in an AI-influenced environment.

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Building Business Capability 2026

April 20–23 | Toronto, Canada

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What does confidence really look like in business analysis? Discover how IIBA members build it—through certification, learning, and connection—and how it helps them lead, influence, and drive meaningful change.

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Elevate Your Career: Business Analysis Resources

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Building Confidence in Business Analysis: From Self-Doubt to Clear Decisions

Confidence is the difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it. For business analysts, that gap shows up in meetings, decisions, and recommendations every day. 

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The Business Analyst Who Tried to Use Intelligence in the Age of AI

What happens when an AI tool gives a passing score to completely useless requirements? One business analyst decides to find out—using a margarita-themed experiment that serves up a bitter truth.

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7 Ways a Second Chance Can Boost Your Business Analysis Career and Confidence

Failing an exam might feel like a setback—but what if it’s actually a career advantage? This article flips the script on certification anxiety, showing how second chances can build deeper confidence, stronger skills, and better long-term outcomes.

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How to Elicit Requirements When Stakeholders Can’t Define What They Want

Eliciting the requirements when the stakeholders won’t tell you what they want—if this is so easy, why isn’t everyone doing it? 

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Making Data Impossible to Ignore: Data Storytelling for Business Analysts

In a recent Business Analysis Live episode, Susan Moore sits down with data storyteller Ankit Agrawal to explore why some insights stick while others get lost in the noise. This article distills that conversation into practical ways to shape a message, focus attention, and guide stakeholders toward confident decisions.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Business Analysis (and What to Do Instead)

In this article, Heather Mylan-Mains explores seven common but preventable mistakes that business analysts make—and the practical habits that address them. From unclear problem definition and poor listening to missing context, skipped process analysis, and analysis paralysis, these “deadly sins” reveal patterns that can quietly undermine projects.

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