Project Times/Business Analyst Times Virtual Conference
Join us on December 13, 2018 for a full day of interactive online sessions! Each session will be approx. 1 hour including a live QA with the Speaker during the session!
9:00am – 10:00am
Bob Prentiss: The 5 Most Important Moments In Your Career
Bob Prentiss, CBAP, CEO, Bob the BA
10:10am – 11:10am
Hans Eckman: BA 20/20 – Creating a Discrete Vision and Goals to Transform Your Practice
Hans Eckman, Consultant, Eckman Guides
Paul Pelletier: PM and AI – The Importance of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Projects
Paul Pelletier, Principal, Paul Pelletier Consulting (PPC)
11:20am – 12:20pm
Clinton Ages: Be Agile: Mapping Your PM Skills to an Agile Environment
Clinton Ages, Certified Professional Coach, Coach Clinton
Paul Crosby: Surviving in a Hybrid World
Paul Crosby, PMP, CFO, Bob the BA / The Uncommon League
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Vincent Mirabelli: Driving Innovation with 20 Questions
Vincent Mirabelli, CBAP, CCXP, MBB,PMP, , Principal, Global Project Synergy Group
1:40pm – 2:40pm
Vijay Verma: Power, Influence, and Politics: A Key to Managing People, Programs, and Projects
Vijay Verma, Group Leader (Planning Dept), University of British Columbia
Scott Hebbard: Sparx Systems – Tools for Business Analysis
Scott Hebbard
2:50pm – 3:50pm
Angela Wick: Agile Product Ownership and Business Analysis – Models of collaboration to get to viable products!
Angela Wick, CEO, BA-Squared, LLC
Osama Aziz: Over-Managed: Top five risks of tactical PMO
Osama Aziz
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Kupe Kupersmith: Success Through Empathy
Kupe Kupersmith, President, Kupetalks
Session Description:
In “Good to Great”, Jim Collins found that the best companies set Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGS). What would happen if you took the same approach for your practice? In 2007, SunTrust Enterprise Delivery Services transformed business analysis to follow the IIBA BABOK and industry parity. The transformation team also established a foundation of tools and processes to start engaging BAs so that they could perform their needed functions. At the end of the transformation, the division was at risk for losing the quality improvement momentum and lacked a clear direction for where the BA practice should be in the future.
BA 20/20 set a clear vision (20/20) of where SunTrust Bank’s BA maturity will be in the year 2020. Leveraging the work of change agents, BA 20/20 helped establish a BA Center of Excellence as the catalyst for continuous improvement. The vision established a measurable set of benchmarks, boundaries and a process for prioritizing, managing and implementing changes.
- Review a bold initiative for continuous improvement to the BA role and processes
- Understand how quantifiable goals are critical to improvement efforts
- Discuss and critique this approach as a viable path for organizational change management
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