Do you ever wonder why some people absolutely love their work, get all the interesting projects, and are consistently being rewarded for their efforts, while others seem stuck and never get a break? Which side of the pendulum would you like to be on?
There is a success path for business analysts, and there are universal laws of success that can guide you to creating your dream job, here and now. And getting on it is easier than you think. It’s not about working harder or spending countless hours perfecting documentation. It is about applying tried and true laws of success, to show up with confidence and earn the respect you deserve.
You’ll leave this presentation inspired to take the simple, straight-forward, high-impact actions that will get you on the path to your dream job, and elevate you and your business analyst career.
Learning Objectives:
- Set clear career goals, that guide you to more success.
- Identify the high-impact actions and skills to elevate your career.
- Learn key mindset practices that help you move into more success.
Are you leveraging your resources to develop the right-fit business analysis approach? What are your best choices based on different variables and situations? The Business Analysis Core Concept Model™ (BACCM) is a valuable framework to evaluate the characteristics that make initiatives unique. This evaluation process can help business analysts tailor their work to the initiative. Hints and tips are provided to re-evaluate and adjust the approach as different situations arise. Each BACCM core concept is addressed with case study examples.
Learning Objectives:
- Applying the BACCM and understanding how its application may vary by type of initiative
- Looking through the lens of different business analysis practitioners (BABOK Perspectives)
- Examining characteristics for common types of predictive, adaptive and hybrid life cycle initiatives
- Illustrating application of BACCM with real-life examples
• Do you believe you behave ethically at work?
• Have you even thought about it?
The world we live in has moved from a physical realm to one where we now live partly digitally. It is growing organically, with every bright idea leading to a thousand new opportunities. But who decides what is the right thing to do in this new world? Well, we do! The professionals and the teams that create it.
So far the results have been patchy. There are some great forces for good and some dangerous abuses of the new technologies.
This highly interactive session will explore modern ethics and allow you to learn something of the inner thinking of your fellow attendees!
Learning Objectives:
- What does it mean to be ethical in the digital world?
- What are the challenges facing professionals?
- What can we do as professionals to ensure customers trust today’s new technologies?
Unprecedented changes in the business context are forcing organizations to take stock of the current capabilities of their workforce. Consequently, business analysis professionals will have to master new skills as their current jobs evolve alongside the rise of digitalization, capable machines and changing business practices. Both organizations and practitioners need to chalk out a future-ready career architecture for business analysis roles.
This presentation offers an evidence-based framework to create an effective strategy for reskilling, competency building and underlying career architecture to address the business analysis skills gap.
Key Takeaways
- Learn about IIBA’s career architecture framework
- Individuals can apply the framework to build and align their business analysis career to business and technology trends
- Organizations can leverage this framework to create an organization wide business analysis capability aligned to their business and technology needs. Organizations will be able to determine the right resource fit for the right role