Anyone Can Learn BPMN 2.0, Not Everyone Can Lead the Team Using It

You can teach BPMN 2.0 to a competent graduate in a fortnight. Tasks, gateways, events, pools, lanes. Give them 3 months on a real program, they’ll be modelling processes as well as anyone. The notation was never the scarce skill. What’s scarce is someone who can take a group of analysts with that same notation, […]
Why People Skills Matter More Than Technique for a Business Analyst

You can learn the technical side of business analysis in about 6 months. Requirements templates, process notation, user stories, traceability matrices, gap analysis. It’s all learnable, all documented, all fairly consistent from one organisation to the next. What takes years is the other part. Getting a room full of people who disagree to tell you […]
Digital Transformation Projects Run on People, Not Plans

I’ve worked on programs with excellent methodology that went badly. I’ve worked on messy ones that landed well. The difference was never the framework. It was who was in the room, how they got on, whether anyone was willing to say the difficult thing out loud. That’s not a soft observation. On a program with […]
🌱 How People Skills Outshine Technical Skills in Business Process Analysis

Being a skilled business process analyst is not just about frameworks or software. It is about being the kind of colleague that others trust and enjoy working with. In fast-paced teams, technical knowledge matters. But listening, empathy, and emotional intelligence (EQ) often create more impact than technical skills alone. The best analysts know how to […]
🌱 Why People Skills Matter More Than Anything

Being a business process analyst is not just about systems and workflows. It is about people. Processes only succeed when people feel understood, supported and valued. That is why emotional intelligence (EQ) is the greatest skill an analyst can have. Technical ability will help you create diagrams and documents. But it is your people skills […]
🌱 Why People Skills Matter More Than Anything

Being a business process analyst is not just about systems and workflows. It is about people. Processes only succeed when people feel understood, supported and valued. That is why emotional intelligence (EQ) is the greatest skill an analyst can have. Technical ability will help you create diagrams and documents. But it is your people skills […]