28 September, Conference and Exhibits Day 1
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Keynote: Business Analysis as a Learning Process - The Individual Psychological Perspective on Business Analysis Susanne Kandrup, The Lime Guild When analyzing businesses and preparing a new strategy it is often forgotten that it is down to the action of the people of the organization whether a strategy and the business plans will be successful. Using one of the key theories of modern stress research Susanne will provide alternative ways to look at the change processes needed to succeed with Business Analysis. |
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Shaping the Future of Business Analysis | |||||||||||||
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The Importance of Relationships in Analysing Business Christopher Howell, IIL Europe The impact of networking on business has long been recognised. 'The old school tie' symbolises traditional bonds and recently, social networking over the internet has rapidly expanded. In analysing businesses, how important are relationships and the processes that support them? In many of our relationships, we negotiate through with a combination of intuition and assumptions. What if there is a better way? Being in a 'business' or an 'organisation', pre-supposes relationships so business analysis tends to be performed within that context. How does stepping back into the context of a relationship system change our awareness of the system as a whole? This presentation will explore:
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Organisational Semiotics: Business Analysis Techniques and Methods Eilish McLoughlin, Planet Information Management Services Kecheng Liu, Henley Business School This seminar will introduce the discipline of Organisational Semiotics (OS). It will present a range of OS approaches, frameworks, methods and techniques to enable a Business Analyst to understand, analyse, model, design and implement organisational and technical information systems that are flexible and adaptable to organisational change. Methods and techniques to enable semantics and intentions of users to be captured in requirements models will be demonstrated. The seminar will draw on the theories of renowned OS practioners, Ronald Stamper and Kecheng Liu who advocate the need to treat the development of information systems from the perspectives of social as opposed to technical systems.
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Objective Agility: What does it take to be an Agile Company? Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Everyone wants to be Agile, or so it seems. But what does that mean? What does the Agile company do that others don't? There is more to being an Agile company than doing Scrum. In this session Allan Kelly will consider what it means to be Agile and what you need to do to be an Agile company, rather than a company which just follows an Agile method. In doing so he will discuss customers, project design, strategy and portfolio management and especially how BAs can help achieve Agility. |
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Business Analysis Department - Part of IT or Business Change? Simon Hartley, Skandia Corrine Thomas, Skandia Skandia will share their experiences of setting up a Business Analysis Centre of Excellence and invite discussion on where in organisations the BA department should ideally be placed to add maximum value to business change. Areas for discussion:
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Career Path and Qualifications Panel Discussion Kathleen Barret, President IIBA Miles Barker, Credit Suisse Paul Turner, ISEB Examiner Lawrence Darvill, Certes As Business Analysis matures towards professional status:
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The Agile Analyst David Avis, Barclays Bank Sean Blezard, Barclays Bank All the cool kids are doing it; Google, Yahoo, Symantec, Microsoft, and the list goes on. Sean and David have been using Agile software development with great success in the banking industry... find out how the role of the Agile BAs differs from the traditional techniques. This session will provide:
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Keynote: The IIBA® Value Proposition and Our Vision for the Future Kathleen Barret, President of the IIBA Five years ago, an association for business analysis professionals was just a really good idea. Today, it is an active, international organization with over 12,000 members worldwide, a formal body of knowledge outlining the generally accepted practices for the field, a professional certification and much more. This session will discuss:
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Behaviour Patterns that Help and Hinder Business Analysts Suzanne Robertson, The Atlantic Systems Guild The greatest variant in any project is the people who are involved - the stakeholders. People both individually and in teams behave in ways that greatly influence the success of a project. Suzanne Robertson, and her partners in the Atlantic Systems Guild, have observed and named behaviour patterns that have a positive effect on success and also those that have a negative effect. By recognising which behaviour patterns apply to your project you can maximise success by fitting your approach to suit the situation. This talk explores the details of how to recognise and deal with some behaviour patterns that particularly affect the success of business analysis, for example:
• Behaviour patterns in Business Analysis |
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Bring Clarity, Creativity and Engagement to Your Business Analysis Work Penny Pullan, Making Projects Work Ltd Too many business analysts know the power of graphics but fear to venture beyond the stick men of their use case models. In this practical session, Penny will explain the clarity that simple pictures can bring, by:
As this is a practical session, expect to leave it with a range of versatile graphics and the confidence to put them to use in your own work. Bring a pen/pencil! |
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Do Requirements Still Matter in Agile Development? Lynda Girvan, UK Government Requirements do still matter and are an essential part of agile development. In an Agile world scaling requirement management and processes across an Enterprise is difficult. This presentation takes you through some experiences, from UK Government, of requirement anti patterns and focuses on how a 'just in time' approach throughout the requirement management stack can deliver improved business benefit. By attending this session delegates will: Understand the problems for Agile requirements and review some anti patterns for Requirements such as:
Lynda will also share her experience of how she is helping her organisation to improve it's Requirement Management processes across the Enterprise in order to support a lean and efficient approach to delivering agile Requirements@Scale. |
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Bridging the Gap from Business Analysis to Systems Analysis We are all striving to identify how our businesses can deliver more value and reduce costs. But how easy is it to turn those ideas into reality? Benefits analysis is only one half of Cost-Benefit Analysis and predicting the cost side of the equation can be notoriously unreliable. The ability to establish systems development scope reliably and estimate development costs and timescales realistically is fundamental to delivering business benefits. In this talk we will show you how to relate functional system requirements simply and directly to business needs and prioritise development for incremental realisation of benefits, using Business Process Models and Use Cases. |
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Business Analysis Responsibilities Panel Discussion Chair: Debbie Paul, AssistKD Panellists: Wes Curtis, Head of Technology Consultancy, BBC Sue Vowler, Director, Project Angels Ltd The role of the BA has been discussed at length. This year a panel of experts will look at a different perspective - the responsibilities of the business analyst. Again, the session will take a 'Question Time' format and will examine the areas of responsibility from different viewpoints. Debbie Paul hosts the panel which will include a senior BA, a BA Head of Practice and a Project Manager. |
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Performance Indicators for Business Analysis or How to Increase Productivity Nikita Chtcheglov, Telys Louardi Messai, Telys Business analysis is a very challenging profession requiring numerous skills in different domains One of these domains is productivity and performance assessment. The purpose of this presentation is to provide possible answers to the very important questions such as:
To provide answers to the raised questions, the following points are covered: 1. Business Analysis and metrics |
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Delivering Incremental Value Danielle Downs, Totaljobs Group As more companies adopt Agile methodologies to deliver projects, the Business Analyst plays a key role in steering project stakeholders with a 'big picture' view towards realising the intended value from much smaller, independent segments. This session discusses the benefits and pitfalls of tried-and-tested techniques for 'slicing' PRINCE2 style projects - formerly lasting months or years - into iterations that will deliver value incrementally over days and weeks.
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