Brag Doc Template

    Business Analyst Brag Doc

    A brag doc is a private running list of every analysis that changed a decision, every process you improved, and every requirement you translated from messy stakeholder asks into actionable scope. BA work compounds quietly — most of it surfaces only when a project succeeds because of clean requirements or fails because of muddy ones. This template surfaces it.

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    What to include

    Business Analysts are graded on the decisions they shaped, not the decks they produced. Each section maps to a kind of value: insight delivered, process changed, partnership built, requirement translated, technical capability proven. Fill 3–5 specific bullets per section. Tie every analysis to a downstream decision or outcome.

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    The template

    01

    Insights Delivered

    Analyses that changed a decision. Not 'I built a dashboard' — 'the dashboard showed X, so the team did Y.'

    • ·Which analysis surfaced an insight the team didn't see before? What changed?
    • ·What recommendation did you make that leadership adopted?
    • ·Which finding contradicted the prevailing assumption?
    • ·What proactive analysis did you run (not requested) that paid off?
    02

    Process Improvements

    Workflows you streamlined, bottlenecks you removed, manual work you automated.

    • ·Which process did you map, diagnose, and improve? Quantify before/after.
    • ·What manual workflow did you automate or restructure?
    • ·Which bottleneck did you identify and resolve?
    • ·What cross-team handoff did you redesign?
    03

    Stakeholder Partnerships

    The relationships that let you ask better questions and ship better requirements.

    • ·Which stakeholder relationship did you build that improved project outcomes?
    • ·What disagreement did you surface and resolve between business and technical teams?
    • ·Whose decision-making did you upgrade by changing what data they saw or how often?
    • ·Which trusted-advisor relationship did you establish?
    04

    Requirements & Documentation

    BRDs, functional specs, data dictionaries, process maps — the artifacts that downstream work depends on.

    • ·Which BRD or requirements doc did you write that got cited months after?
    • ·What ambiguous business ask did you translate into shippable scope?
    • ·Which data dictionary, glossary, or definition did you author that's now canonical?
    • ·What process map did you produce that became a training artifact?
    05

    Quantified Business Impact

    Cost saved, time saved, revenue influenced, risk avoided. Numbers attached.

    • ·What cost savings did your work drive? Annualize it.
    • ·What efficiency gain (FTE-hours saved, cycle time cut) did you produce?
    • ·Which revenue decision did you inform — and what was the lift?
    • ·What risk or compliance exposure did you reduce, and by how much?
    06

    Technical Skill & Tooling

    SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Python, requirements elicitation — the craft side.

    • ·Which tool did you master or introduce to the team this period?
    • ·What technical capability did you build that the team didn't have before?
    • ·Which complex analysis (statistical, multi-source join, predictive) did you deliver?
    • ·What did you teach others on the team — by training, doc, or office hours?

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    Weak vs. strong bullets

    The format does the easy part. The bullets carry the weight. A few examples to set the bar.

    Weak

    Built dashboards for the operations team.

    Strong

    Designed and shipped the ops command-center dashboard (12 metrics, 3 data sources). Cut the daily status meeting from 45 min to 10 (saving 5 people × 35 min × 250 days ≈ 730 hr/yr). Now used by 3 adjacent teams.

    Weak

    Did a churn analysis.

    Strong

    Ran cohort churn analysis across 3 years of customers. Surfaced that month-2 onboarding completion was the single strongest predictor (R² 0.71). Recommended an onboarding intervention; pilot ran in Q3, retained cohort churn dropped 1.8 points (≈ $340K ARR).

    Weak

    Helped with the CRM migration.

    Strong

    Owned requirements gathering for the Salesforce → HubSpot migration. Wrote the 38-page BRD across 6 stakeholder interviews. Migration shipped on time with zero scope reopens — three other BA teams have since copied the BRD structure.

    Weak

    Improved reporting.

    Strong

    Replaced 6 manually-updated weekly spreadsheets with a single automated report. Reclaimed ~4 hours/week of analyst time, eliminated 2 recurring data discrepancy errors, and gave the VP a single source of truth she now references in board prep.

    Manual template vs. Bloom generated report

    Manual brag doc

    • Works when you already remember the right examples.
    • Requires manual sorting, rewriting, and evidence cleanup.
    • Best for a one-time draft or printable structure.

    Bloom generated report

    • Starts from the work you captured when it happened.
    • Organizes entries by goals, skills, impact, and review period.
    • Turns daily evidence into shareable summaries and PDF reports.

    You don't fill out a Bloom report. Bloom writes it.

    The template above is the manual version. Bloom is the generated version. Thirty seconds when something good happens — speak it or type it — and at review time the entire document is in your share sheet. Same shape as the template. Your numbers, your names, your dates. Already written.

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    Build the evidence before you need the template

    Templates help with format. A career journal helps with memory. Use these pages together: learn the structure, generate a quick outline, then keep the source material current in Bloom.

    Brag document guide

    What to include and how to write stronger bullets.

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    Frequently asked questions

    Can I use this as a Business Analyst brag doc app replacement?▾

    You can use the template manually, but it will only stay useful if you update it consistently. Bloom is the app version: capture wins daily, then generate reports when you need them.

    What should a brag doc include?▾

    A strong brag doc includes dated wins, measurable impact, collaborators, skills, feedback, decisions, evidence links, and review-category alignment.

    Is Bloom a brag doc app?▾

    Yes. Bloom is a brag doc app and career journal that keeps the source material current, then turns entries into performance reports, recaps, and reusable career stories.

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