Business Analysis Wave
Dashboards and Scorecards BAM! Business Analysis Management Leveraging SharePoint's Collaboration, Communication, and Content Management Tools
9:30 - 10:45
Pete Hohenhaus
Session Level: All levels (100–Beginner; 200–Intermediate; 300–Advanced; 400–Expert)
Audience: Business Analysts, Project Managers, Business Managers, IT Directors, SharePoint Technologists
See how SharePoint, out-of-the-box, supports and facilitates business analysis, requirements identification and gathering, assessment and evaluation of technologies, documentatition, feedback gathering, client/JAD session scheduling, etc. See how third party tools augment and expand the already awesome capabilities of SharePoint in supporting and facilitating business analysis. Collaboration, communication and content management is part and parcel of an effective business analysis program.
Exploring Requirements using Use Cases
11:00 - 12:15
W. Charles Slaven, MAX Technical Training
Session Level: 200–Intermediate
Audience:This overview will be useful to requirements analysts, user representatives, software developers, project managers, and anyone else who needs to understand the user requirements for a software system.
Use cases are an effective and widely used technique for eliciting software requirements. The use-case approach focuses on the goals that users have with a system, rather than emphasizing system functionality. This overview presents a summary of the use-case approach to requirements elicitation in a practical and straightforward fashion.
Topics covered include:
- Scenarios and use cases
- Anatomy of a use case
- Use case diagrams
- Documenting a use case
Objectives:
Upon completion of this seminar, the student will be able to:
- Identify use cases for a project
- Identify and describe actors
- Write a use case descriptions
Managing Project Scope or Risk through Effective Business Analysis
2:00 - 3:15
W. Charles Slaven, MAX Technical Training
Session Level: 200 - Intermediate, some practical experience
Audience: This overview will be useful to requirements analysts, user representatives, software developers, project managers, and anyone else who needs to understand the project scope and requirements management for a software system.
The PMI PMBOK Fourth Edition now has a project management process called Collect Requirements. This is a predicessor to Define Scope and Create WBS. The IIBA's BABOK Version 2 has Enterprice Analysis, Elliciataion, Requirements Analysis, Solution Assessment & Validation. In Scope Control, Project Managers manage to the Scope defined with Change Control and verifies that scope is under control using inspection. Effective Business Analysis provides the framework to make sure Project Scope is defined and under control at all time.
High-level covage of topics covered include:
- Project Scope Planning and Definition
- Defining a Requirement Definition and Management Processes
- Integration of the Requirements Management Process into the Project Life Cycle
- Stakeholder Assessment and Management for Requirements Management
- Identifying and Gathering Requirements - Eliciation
- Requirements Documentation and Analysis Techniques
- Solution Validation Techniques
- Requirements Baseline and Effective Change Management for Scope control
Objectives:
On completion of this seminar, the student will be able to understand the what and why we need to:
- Create a project scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, verified, and controlled, and how the WBS will be created and defined
- Create a stakeholder's analysis document
- Create a requirements document
- Develop a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions
- Subdividing the major project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components in a WBS
- Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables through Validation Techniques
- Control changes to the project scope
The Essential Business Analyst: Agent of Change
3:30 - 4:45
Linda Finley
Session Level: 200 - Intermediate, some practical experience
Audience: Attendees should have a familiarity with Business Analysis techniques.
Of the many critical functions a Business Analyst performs to ensure successful delivery of projects, perhaps the most overlooked and under-planned role they play is that of change agent. From the very first requirements interview, the BA begins socializing the changes the project will bring, and through the requirements methodology, he or she drives the picture of the \"new normal\" that will exist following deployment.
- Learn why the Business Analyst plays a critical role in clearly seeing the current state, the desired state, and assessing the change gap in between.
- Understand how to leverage the core Business Analysis processes of enterprise analysis, requirements elicitation, facilitation and representation to encourage learning and adoption of new ideas.
- Discover the Business Analyst’s power within the organization to effect change.