Three Equinox consultants achieve new status

Equinox Press Release

11 September 2007

Three Equinox consultants achieve ‘Certified Business Analysis Professional’ status

Three highly experienced Equinox consultants are among the first people in the world to become Certified Business Analysis Professionals (CBAP).

John Barris, Craig McLean and Matthew Smith – senior consultants at Equinox – are celebrating their CBAP certification, which was announced by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) last week. All three consultants recently passed the CBAP exam in Melbourne.

The CBAP certification process includes strict entrance criteria – participants must demonstrate five years (7,500 hours) of business analysis work in the last 10 years, before they can apply. CBAP’s follow a signed code of conduct and develop their ability to understand business problems in the context of client requirements and in recommending solutions that enable clients to achieve their goals.

“Through their CBAP certification – John, Craig and Matthew are demonstrating an internationally verified, broad knowledge of business analysis, at a senior level,” says Paul Ramsay, National Consulting Manager at Equinox. “Becoming CBAP certified demonstrates that the practitioner has
the required experience, knowledge and competencies of a qualified practitioner of business analysis, according to requirements designated by the IIBA.”

The IIBA is the first organisation to offer the formal CBAP certification for business analysis professionals. As an independent non-profit professional association, the IIBA's mission is to develop and maintain standards for the practice of business analysis and for the certification of its practitioners. The CBAP certification process has been carefully designed to comply with the International Standards Organization (ISO) 17204 standard for certifying the competence of personnel.

Paul Ramsay says, “the experience of our 45 seasoned and highly skilled consultants spans IT strategic planning, project management, business modelling and analysis, enterprise and software architecture consulting, development, testing and support. Achieving this CBAP certification is a great success and strengthens Equinox business analysis capabilities.”

Craig McLean, who completed the CBAP certification process, says "the certification is a great way to measure business analyst skills, built up over a number of projects and years, against an international standard.” Craig says the CBAP process forced the consultants to review their analysis experiences and to place them within a common context – the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) – which identifies the key knowledge areas being tested by the exam.

Equinox Learning offers the only IIBA-endorsed CBAP Exam Preparation course in New Zealand and this course includes a realistic practice exam. The Equinox consultants used this course and practice exam during their preparation activities and found the training very valuable. The consultants will now enhance the course to reflect their CBAP exam experience.

The one-day Equinox CBAP Exam Preparation course will run on the Equinox public course schedule in January and February 2008, ahead of the New Zealand CBAP exam, which is tentatively scheduled for 25 February 2008.

Please click here to see the schedule of course dates.
Please click here for more information about the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).

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