Track 2:
The BA role within the Enterprise

Learn how ERIE Insurance clarified Business Analyst roles, responsibilities, and expectations, created a comprehensive Business Analyst competency and training plan, and promoted the Business Analyst profession in the organization.

• Learn how ERIE defined and communicated BA responsibilities and expectations to BAs, to IT, and to the entire organization.
• Learn how ERIE created, communicated, and administers a comprehensive BA competency plan.
• Learn how ERIE promoted pride and recognition of value in the BA role.

Mary Jo Ingalls, Business Analyst,ERIC INSURANCE GROUP

This presentation describes how Aera Energy LLC is using Enterprise Architecture to fundamentally restructure the way it manages information and achieve data quality. Enterprise Architecture Planning provided a rigorous assessment of the current state and clearly defined the target architectures. The subsequent implementation program is defined by an ambitious system development schedule and supported by a comprehensive Data Quality process.

The presentation discusses the essential components of Aera's approach and examines the critical success factors identified. Enterprise Architecture has proven to be a superior means to align business and IT, integrate people, process and technology, and reduce the costs of information management.

Mary Stumbaugh , Information Analyst,AERA ENERGY LLC

The BA – the crucial bridge between Business and IT

Never has the role of BA been more difficult – or more important.  More than 70 percent of software project failures can be traced to poor requirements management. The root cause: the gap between what the business team wants and what is communicated to IT for delivery.  Going beyond technical expertise, today's BA now needs to excel at collaboration, consensus building and leadership in order to deliver successful projects. 

In this presentation we will cover:

• How to eliminate the communications gap between stakeholders and deliver value by putting development, testing, quality assurance and deployment in tune
• Practical "how-to" tips on mapping the business strategy through the project development life cycle
• Real-life techniques to deliver more effectively on the commercial goals of your company

David Kapelanski, Director Requirements Management Support, Compuware

End of Day

Day Two Track Sessions

Track A:
Core Competencies

Track 1:
Core Competencies for a BA - The IIBA Body Of Knowledge

Track B:
Advancements in Project Management

Track C:
People Side & Leadership

Track 2:
The BA role within the Enterprise

Track D:
Techniques, Tools and Trends

Track 3:
Advancements, Techniques & Trends This Track will be Chaired by IRISE

Track E:
Enterprise

The Big Picture, Tying the Technical Side
and the Business Side Together