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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