BArszawa Blog - January’24 Edition

In 2023, I became a part of the fantastic local community of business analysts, product owners, and product managers who recently relocated to Warsaw. I soon joined the OrgTeam, and we made about a dozen meetups and coffee talks last year. In 2024, we started expanding our media presence, so now we have a blog with the first post available!

"BArszawa" is the community title, a combination of business analysis or business analyst abbreviation (BA), and a city title in Polish: Warszawa. It also references the Russian name of the city as well: "Варшава."

That all started with a Telegram chat and free events. We plan to try different formats as we see a stable demand for such a professional community.

A blog is a part of that strategy. It took a while to find a platform with built-in donations where we can publish for free and sponsor users, and it does not require registration. Despite our events being mainly in Russian (we had one English-speaking event), the blog is in English to attract different audiences.

I also initially struggled to find an approach to incorporate that community blog into my writing routine as I am posting on LinkedIn, Medium, X/Twitter (no traction there at all), and here in my blog. Ultimately, I will be an editor responsible for publishing a monthly blog edition.

An edition contains an editor's foreword, announcements of upcoming events and other stuff we consider attractive, valuable materials the OrgTeam found during a month, and additional thoughts on various topics related to Business Analysis.

It should take little effort to produce such a monthly publication where I am not the only author. So, my current combination of ilyazakharau.com, LinkedIn, and Medium will be the primary focus.

Please enjoy the reading here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barszawaorg/zatetasexo

If you want to join our Telegram chat, a temporary invitation link is here: https://t.me/+39GqbAL0Nu5mM2Yy

See you soon as I finalize the fifth and the last part of the Replacing Legacy series.

Take care,

Ilyz