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World Congress Day One: Track Three Detail
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Track Sessions
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| 1:45 |
Variation of Techniques on Validating Requirements Business Analyst is a leader. One must help drive the effort to success, help sell the vision as well as the changes, bridge the various teams to help all understand that all will benefit. This session will cover how to: • Understand the business need. – Why are they asking for changes? Jim Bailey, eBusiness Integration Analyst,ROCKWELL COLLINS |
| 2:30 | Advance to Next Session |
| 2:40 |
Building your BA Toolkit There's lots of good ways to conduct Business Analysis. Some approaches within an organization may be less than optimal and require supplementation and augmentation, and others are well positioned to bridge business –technical communication boundaries. Trying to create a "one size fits all" approach often results in cultural resistance. In this presentation, we will focus on how to build a practical Business Analysis toolkit with complementary tools and techniques which promote better business analysis. • Understand the "essence" of business analysis Susan Burk, Systems Architect, MASSMUTUAL |
| 3:25 | Networking Break |
| 4:00 |
Presenting Requirements in a Consistent and Cohesive Manner Business requirements? User requirements? Functional requirements? Functional specifications? What should different types of requirements be called? How should requirements be categorized and why? Categories are used inconsistently in most organizations and sometimes even within an individual project team. It is important that Business Analysts decide on consistent groupings of requirements based on sound rationale. Part of the difficulty is that the word requirement is used inconsistently among project managers, business analysts and all project stakeholders. Before we can really improve the way we elicit, analyze, document and use requirements we need to have a common understanding of what requirements are and how they are best represented. This is not a simple or straightforward goal. Barbara Carkenord, President, B2T TRAINING |
| 4:45 | Advance to Next Session |
| 4:55 | Breakthrough Approaches to more Powerful Insights Data has become the most important asset in many industries that now dominate the global economy. The amount of digital data produced and stored on hard disks continues to grow exponentially at an annual rate of over 100%. Often, much of this valuable data is not leveraged by organizations due to the limitations of traditional data management systems. At the same time, the processing power and storage available on desktops and laptops continues to double every 18 months, bringing more power and capability closest to the user. Pete Krainik, senior executive at QD Technology will lead a distinguished panel of industry visionaries and innovators from leading organizations, to provide their insights and suggestions on new breakthrough approaches for leveraging data within your organization. They will offer ways to improve the effectiveness of your analysis so that everyone wins – your department, your company, and most importantly, your customers. Benefits of this session: - Insights into new approaches for leverage the data in your organization - Examples of success stories in leveraging new approaches - Specific recommendations for introducing new approaches into your company. Pete Krainik, Senior Executive, QD Technology Pete brings over 25 years of experience in the Software, Marketing Technology Services, and Consumer Goods Industry. Recently Pete served as Global Vice President of Marketing for Avaya. Prior to Avaya, he was CMO at DoubleClick, General Manager of the Consumer Goods Division at Siebel Systems, and over 15 years in IT and Sales positions at Mars, Inc. |
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End of Day |
Compuware Corporation, a recognized industry leader in application development solutions, is pleased to host Casino Night for all conference attendees.
Enjoy great food and drinks while you try your hand at the ever-popular "Texas Hold 'em" and other casino games. The player with the largest pot at the end of the evening will win a weekend trip for two to the Wynn Las Vegas Resort.
Throughout the evening, Compuware will showcase OptimalTrace, an innovative solution in business requirements definition and management.
So, join us for a good time with great rewards.We look forward to seeing you.