{"id":599,"date":"2015-11-16T23:50:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/?p=599"},"modified":"2015-11-29T23:46:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T23:46:19","slug":"tale-of-the-phoenix-creating-a-center-of-excellence-in-an-unfriendly-environment-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/tale-of-the-phoenix-creating-a-center-of-excellence-in-an-unfriendly-environment-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale of the Phoenix \u2013 Creating a Center of Excellence in an Unfriendly Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmbaconferences.com\/chicago\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Business\u00a0Analyst\u00a0World<\/a>,\u00a0Chicago, IL,\u00a0November 16TH &#8211; 19TH, 2015,\u00a0Hyatt Regency O&#8217;Hare<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmbaconferences.com\/images\/ba-world-chicago-web3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"65\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it. Some organizations are scared of any group that proclaims themselves as experts. Others don\u2019t have the time, support, or accepted leadership to implement a Center of Excellence (COE). This session tells the tale of how a small team was able to establish a Business Analyst Center of Excellence despite all the common obstacles: political opposition and conflicts, authority\/control issues, lack of resources and funding, little management support, and multiple groups controlling the BA job and role.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Be advocates for the BA role<\/li>\n<li>Prioritize and influence changes impacting the business analyst role<\/li>\n<li>Improve BA communication and support<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151117_BAWorld_BA_COE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download presentation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business\u00a0Analyst\u00a0World,\u00a0Chicago, IL,\u00a0November 16TH &#8211; 19TH, 2015,\u00a0Hyatt Regency O&#8217;Hare Let\u2019s face it. Some organizations are scared of any group that proclaims themselves as experts. Others don\u2019t have the time, support, or accepted leadership to implement a Center of Excellence (COE). This session tells the tale of how a small team was able to establish a Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,14,87,86,88,89,9,6],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations","tag-business-analysis","tag-business-architecture","tag-center-of-execellence","tag-coe","tag-community-of-practice","tag-cop","tag-organizational-change-management","tag-process-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45zXQ-9F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}