19 December 2025

BA Brew 111: Christmas Special 2025

Merry Christmas! Pete Thompson, Fiona Kiss, Lisa Hudson and Mike Williams from the Brew Crew share their favourite festive foods, worst (and best) Secret Santas, and reveal who impulse-bought a pantomime horse costume for their long-suffering other half.

12 December 2025

BA Brew 110: The BA of the Year Special

If you’ve ever considered applying for the Business Analyst of the Year Award, this BA Brew special is for you.

28 November 2025

BA Brew 109: The Balanced Business Analyst: Stretch goals and The Holistic Approach

In this stressbusting BA Brew, special guest and yoga teacher Jen Macdonald talks to the Brew Crew about how yoga, mindfulness, and something as simple as a breathing technique can foster balance, calm and resilience in your work and home life.

14 November 2025

BA Brew 108: Mind the (Service) Gap

Bad service appears to be on the increase… why? Could it be because organisations are forgetting about the needs of the customer or are not sufficiently involving BAs, Service Designers or Business Architects?

31 October 2025

BA Brew 107: Digital Solutions and the Role of the BA

Could BAs be the new digital solutions superheroes? This week’s BA Brew, which features special guest Catherine Plumridge, looks at how the skills of BAs plug into digital solutions across every element of the BA Service Framework.

17 October 2025

BA Brew 106: Business Analysis and All That Jazz

In this music-themed BA Brew, three piano-playing business analysts identify and draw parallels between business analysis and music, highlighting interesting similarities and connections.

3 October 2025

BA Brew 105: ‘Beesiness’ Analysis – Lessons from the Hive (feat. Mick Brian)

In this week’s #BABrew Kerry Adams chats to avid beekeepers Mike Williams and Mick Brian about what business analysts can learn from the organisation of a beehive – including how the bees communicate, make decisions, and allocate their resources.

19 September 2025

BA Brew 104: Why BA Techniques are Useful (Feat. Carlos Pullen-Ferreira)

Ready for some BA toolbox inspiration? This BA Brew is all about business analysis techniques, and how to apply them.

5 September 2025

BA Brew 103: The Butterfly Effect of Inspiration Feat. Simon Platt

According to Simon Platt, every one of us, regardless of our age, job, title or background, has it within us to inspire others – even if we don’t always realise it.

22 August 2025

BA Brew 102: Trilogy Pete: The Digital Solutions Series

AssistKD’s Product Strategy Director Pete Thompson is the author of the new BCS Digital Solutions series. In this BA Brew Pete, explains how he saw the need for an up to date, comprehensive body of knowledge for business and IT professionals, and talks about the process of writing the three books – Defining Digital Solutions, Designing Digital Solutions and Delivering Digital Solutions.