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Trevin Nimaladasa

Career · For business analysts

Build what runs without you.

A business analyst’s career is an asset portfolio, not a job title. Four kinds of capital, two talks, and the tools that came out of them. Free, and kept current.

Take the Score The talks

The four capitals

  1. 01

    Domain

    2025Where do I have real depth?

    2026Can I break this domain down from outcome to test?

  2. 02

    Delivery

    2025What outcomes prove my value?

    2026Does my work keep producing without me?

  3. 03

    Influence

    2025Where do I shape direction or create alignment?

    2026Do people follow the system I designed?

  4. 04

    IP

    2025What tools, templates or frameworks have I created or reused?

    2026What have I built that other people work inside?

The tools

  1. 01Career Capital 2.0 ScoreSCORECARD · 8 Q · 2 MINFour questions about you, four about your practice. A map from clerk to architect, the one answer to fix first, and a move for this week. LIVE
  2. 02The Mirror TestCHECK · 4 Q · 30 SECAtomic, testable, traceable, owned. Hold any requirement up to it and see whether it only looks like one. LIVE
  3. 03Three lines that hold the lineSCRIPTS · 3 LINESWhat to say when trade-offs are fuzzy, when nobody owns the benefit, and when scope is creeping. LIVE
  4. 04Capital Map 2.0WORKSHEET · 1 PAGEWhat you do yourself, what would run without you, and whether it exists outside your head yet. Four capitals, five structures, one move. LIVE
  5. 05Capital Map 1.0 and the four frameworksWORKSHEET · 2025Last year's map: where you stand on each capital, with M.A.S.T.E.R., D.E.L.I.V.E.R., G.O.S.S.I.P. and S.C.A.L.E. LIVE

Tool 03

Three lines that hold the line.

None of them are confrontational. All of them put the decision back where it belongs.

  1. 01 · TRADE-OFFS ARE FUZZY AND SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO JUST START WRITINGI can document the requirements, but first I need the decision rules: what do we optimise for when trade-offs appear?
  2. 02 · NOBODY OWNS THE BENEFITIf we can't name an owner for the benefit, I'll write 'unassigned' and flag it as a risk.
  3. 03 · SCOPE IS CREEPINGI'm not blocking this. I'm asking us to re-open the decision it sits inside.

The talks

ALL TALKS

  1. Career Capital 2.0: From Documentation Clerk to Requirements Architect

    Build what runs without you. The sequel to Career Capital for BAs: why the indispensable hero stalls, and how the compounding practitioner turns what they know into something the whole team can use.

    KEY OUTCOMES

    1. 01Why being the person everything depends on caps your career, and your team's.
    2. 02How to turn what you know into assets that run without you: standards, templates and decision rights.
    3. 03The compounding practitioner: building capital that keeps growing after you move to the next program.
    Take the Career Capital 2.0 Score

  2. Career Capital for BAs: How to Become So Good They Can't Ignore You

    Many BAs are stuck in a tactical loop: briefs, workshops, documents, and no clear path to influence. The story of one BA who went from overlooked on a project to a trusted advisor at the executive table.

    KEY OUTCOMES

    1. 01The four forms of career capital (domain, delivery, influence and intellectual property) and how to build each on purpose.
    2. 02The Capital Map: assess your strengths, find the gaps, and decide what to build next.
    3. 03How reusable IP, such as frameworks, templates and tools, changes the way stakeholders see your role.
    4. 04A path from task executor to strategic partner, drawn from a real finance-system uplift.
    Slides (PDF) Read the write-up

In the register

  1. Entry 363 things to RememberGrowth comes from turning learning into behaviour and doing a few things deliberately, over and over.1 MIN
  2. Entry 40What leadership really changed for meThe leaders who make the biggest impact are not the loudest or fastest but the clearest.1 MIN
  3. Entry 24Reflections on GBAD vs FOBA - in person vs onlineA lasting BA career is built on career capital, not titles or certifications.1 MIN
  4. Entry 108FOBA 2025 Talk - Career Capital for BAs: How to Become So Good They Can't Ignore YouThe write-up of my FOBA 2025 talk on building career capital as a business analyst.15 MIN
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