Focal Virginia Part of the IIBA

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Focal Virginia Chapter of the IIBA "The Industry's View of the Business Analyst Position" David Mantica President, ASPE Technology Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Presentation Agenda Dynamics driving the development in Business Analysis Specific conditions making a BA vital Art verse Science Critical BA Skills BA - PM Engagement Certification and the IIBA Future of the Business Analyst Role

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Specific Conditions Making a BA Essential User requests and necessities are expanding Business requirement for information driven basic leadership Speed of business Can't believe your (gut will get you terminated) Continued corporate benefit taking Outsourcing keeps on developing (seaward or on-shore) Project disappointments rate keeps on developing Complexity and modernity of ventures builds Technology selection prerequisites Speed of innovation

Look at it along these lines: AS… . Needs Continue To Increase Speed Continues To Increase Complexity Continues To Increase Budgets get littler Something must be accomplished all the more successfully & proficiently or disappointment is ensured Scope & Requirements Definition

The test of consistent change lives here. The art of business lives here. The potential for expanded adequacy & effectiveness dwells here. Dealing with this field is a craftsmanship.

Art verse Science Art: Creative, imaginative, adaptable, understanding, with a fundamental procedure or technique Science: Specific, correct, exact, centered, with taking after the particular strides basic to achievement - Science sort IT occupations are being outsourced, it is a particular substantial aptitude exceedingly transferable. It is anything but difficult to discover at a less costly cost. - Art sort IT occupations are remaining, it is an immaterial aptitude which incorporates adaptability and area learning and when assembled is not exceptionally transferable. It is hard to discover at a less costly cost.

Art verse Science Art sort positions: Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Project Manager, Program Manager, System Architect, Business Process Professional Science sort positions: Programmer, Developer, Systems Engineer, Tester, Help work area, Systems Administrator In the end it is not about the position, it is about your aptitudes Business IT The nearer your positional ties are with the business/business needs the more profitable the business sees you

Critical BA Skills - First, what the business sees as the BA obligation region Project Scope — "Fixing" and characterizing the extension in view of Project support demands Requirements Definition — Determining particularly what is required to guarantee client needs are met Process/Data displaying — How work processes happen and how information moves in those work processes. Conformity of those work processes in light of prerequisites

Review of Critical BA Skills Domain information — sufficiently close to business, knows what business needs IT learning — sufficiently close to IT, knows what IT can do "Interpretation abilities" — technical discussion to business talk and the other way around Questioning — soliciting the right sort from inquiries Listening — knowing what to listen for and how to catch it Negotiation — pounding out a match between client needs & IT capacities Critical supposing — taking a gander at choices, finding the "right" arrangements Leadership — supporting what the client needs with the SDLC procedure Communication — identifies with interpretation aptitudes BA devices & systems — Specific procedures/devices of necessities definition and process/information demonstrating

BA – PM Engagement Functional cover accompanies Project Scope Could prompt to significant "issues" if scope duty not characterized Small to moderate sized organizations PM will be in charge of BA aptitudes and direct BA undertakings—huge obligation with enormous dangers This accept PM/BA profile the same, is it? On the other hand, move to Agile techniques and drive Developers & Programmers to lead BA errands—Again huge obligation with huge dangers Key: THE SKILLS ARE STILL REQUIRED!!!!! Despite position Large Companies Both parts — Where will the BA live (inside the Business Unit or IT) and by what method will extend scope duties be broken out Agile push — Developers will require BA abilities

Certification and the IIBA Task Definition Critical — Does the BA BOK meet what the business needs the BA position to do? Industry will tell you rapidly on the off chance that it doesn't Pragmatic Evangelization of BA BOK — Watch out for turning out to be excessively centered around the letter of the law, guarantee it is retention as well as aptitudes. PM BOK push back happening, "paper PMP" All began with "paper CNE" now "paper MCSE" when the paper turns out to be more critical than the aptitudes. Confirmation push beginning with Practioners — Business Analysts have been around temporarily, the ground swell of affirmation intrigue is at the practioner level right now IIBA must get bosses mindshare — Employers must be shone the estimation of a BA BOK talented expert, this will drive the reception much speedier Critical: Focus on the aptitudes not only the position, it is legitimate prerequisites designing, extend extension and process demonstrating not that an organization have a BA

Future of BA Role and Skills Outsourcing will keep on fueling need Alignment of necessities versus abilities will keep on fueling need Can't make the part a lot of a science Can't make the part a lot of a craftsmanship Must remain even minded, concentrated on client and business esteem Employers must be demonstrated the estimation of an IIBA ensured proficient Developers have an extraordinary capability of being effective Business Analysts than they do being Project Managers - grasp the Developer people group, grasp Agile Biggest Question: Are bosses searching for the BA position or the BA aptitudes inside various positions?

Thank you for permitting me to talk at your Chapter meeting Q&A