Live Webinar – January 15th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Simply put, the Business Analyst’s role can be broken into three components: Enterprise Analysis, Process Modeling, and Requirements Engineering. Each component can and does bring value to an enterprise organization, especially in the face of outsourcing and rapidly increasing and evolving user needs.

The Agile Framework, with its specific practices around software development, offers a very different approach to project success. One that on initial view reduces the value the BA brings to the enterprise.

The reality is that Agile is pointing a light at a trend in BA work that if continued significantly reduces the value received by the enterprise. That light I’m referring to is that in a vast majority of cases, enterprises have focused the BA role around requirements engineering. Of the three primary roles, it is the most repeatable and scalable and one that can be measured. The problem it is that it is the one that provides the least value to the enterprise and, ultimately, can be outsourced (under proper conditions).

This presentation looks at the current industry perspective and use of the BA and how it was manifested. From there we will look at the need enterprise organizations have and how the evolution and maturation of the BA can easily fill that role. After that we will look at the skills needed for a BA to properly fulfill this need and how organizations can effectively hire for or help to develop these skills.

Learning Objectives:

• Currently accepted industry practices on BA use
• The Agile effective, how BA will evolve in an Agile framework
• The Solution Architect, the next evolution of the BA
• The skills needed to drive a successful team of BA Solution Architects

The BA role, is a game changer for an enterprises ability to capture competitive advantage from its IT systems and software. When executed and nurtured, an enterprise can effectively implement the “most” needed tools and systems for its user community to drive customer fulfillment. This presentation talks about how to drive the BA role in that direction.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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