insideRoS | The Registers of Scotland blog OUR PEOPLE Business Analysis Day 2021 Blog post by Linda Parker. Linda works in the Landlord Registration team at RoS and won Business Analyst of the Year in 2019. Gary Cockburn is the Lead Business Analyst at RoS. Gary leads the wider RoS BA Community of Practice where BAs of all levels meet once a week to discuss problems (and solutions), methods/tools/techniques, best practice, and how they can continue to add value to the organisation. November 1st is Business Analysis day and as many of you already know RoS has a thriving Business Analysis (BA) community. They meet regularly to help support each other and improve their knowledge, which in turn supports RoS business and IT development. Supporting the wider BA community But what you probably don’t know is that our support of BAs extends wider than just our internal community, we are great supporters of our fellow BAs within Scotland and the UK. This allows us to give back to a close-nit professional community that has taught many of us so much over the years. We’ve had a long-standing connection with International Institute of BAs (IIBA), initially with me as a volunteer on the Scottish branch committee, and now my colleague Milena Tupaldo is continuing this role. We are also corporate members of IIBA and have hosted and presented the February meeting of the Scottish event for the past 5 years. We regularly receive great feedback, particularly when sharing our secrets on how to make a successful Community of Practice. This involvement also extends to presenting at other IIBA events, and presenting at the European BA Conference has been the pinnacle. My colleague Gary Cockburn and I have presented several times now and last year we also had Sally Rogan from our UX team join us. We intend to continue this participation in future years by encouraging other BAs from our community to take part in such events. Our newer BAs are also involved with the group Young Business Analysts which helps support the careers of younger BAs. BALIFE One other area we are involved in is the Business Analysis Learning and Innovation Festival Edinburgh (BALIFE). This one-day BA conference was held in Edinburgh in June 2021 and was the culmination of two years of effort from a committed group of volunteers that includes Gary Cockburn and me. RoS was one of the inaugural sponsors; showing the level of commitment to the Business Analysis role and the wider BA community. The conference gives BAs from across Scotland, and further afield the chance to meet, learn from specialists, and to network. All this extra activity is done on a volunteer basis and outside of working hours. It’s about giving back to the community. INSIDEROS NOVEMBER 1, 2021 SHARE THIS: CLICK TO SHARE ON TWITTER (OPENS IN NEW WINDOW) CLICK TO SHARE ON FACEBOOK (OPENS IN NEW WINDOW) CLICK TO SHARE ON LINKEDIN (OPENS IN NEW WINDOW) CLICK TO EMAIL THIS TO A FRIEND (OPENS IN NEW WINDOW) CLICK TO PRINT (OPENS IN NEW WINDOW) LIKE THIS: LOADING... One thought on “Business Analysis Day 2021” Bob Colquhoun NOVEMBER 1, 2021 AT 6:45 PM I certainly enjoyed my time within the ROS BA community. A welcoming learning and sharing group that get the job done. REPLY Leave a Reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Post navigation PREVIOUS Previous post: Keeper’s monthly update October NEXT Next post: Investing in our people Site search Search for: Subscribe by email Want to stay in the loop with the latest from our teams? Sign up and you'll get an email whenever we publish a post. Email SUBSCRIBE House rules Read our guidelines for interacting with us here on our blog or on our social media channels. Follow us on Twitter My Tweets Filter by topic #RegistersAtoZ Accessibility Cloud strategy Customer Data and GIS Development plan approval Digital discharge service Digital transformation Future of Conveyancing Geovation Scotland Guidance Innovation Land register completion On our registers Online services portal Our people Podcast Publications Registration RoS Board sasine application form ScotLIS Service design Sustainability The Keeper Women's Day Year of Young People Follow us Accessibility Blog house rules Contact us Cookies What we do Work with us