ABOUT THIS SESSION:
Business analysis involves understanding how organizations function to accomplish their purposes and defining the capabilities an organization requires to provide products and services to external stakeholders. It includes the definition of organizational goals, understanding how those goals connect to specific objectives, determining the courses of action that an organization has to undertake to achieve those goals and objectives, and defining how the various organizational units and stakeholders within and outside of that organization interact. Over the last five years, IIBA has worked to understand and define the increasingly critical role of the business analyst. This session will summarize the results of that research, help you understand what business analysts do, and how they can help organizations be successful. What you will learn:
- What does a business analyst do?
- What are the most important skills a business analyst needs to have?
- How can business analysts become more effective in their role?
- What are the factors that have driven the growth of the Business Analysis profession?
- What do you need to consider if you are a Business Analyst – or want to be one – both today and tomorrow?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):
Kevin Brennan, CBAP, PMP, serves on the Board of Directors as the Vice-President, Body of Knowledge, as well as acting as the IIBA’s Manager of Information Technology. He is responsible for the development of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) and was also one of the authors of the CBAP exam. He is a frequent speaker on business analysis, project management, and software quality assurance topics at conferences. Kevin has over a decade of experience as a business analyst and project manager across several industry sectors, including regulated professions, utilities, automobile manufacturing, courier services, and mortgage banking. During this time he has performed just about every task a business analyst could be expected to do, from developing corporate and product strategies to being paged by end-users looking for technical support.
Kevin has taught project management and requirements analysis at Humber College, and has a B.A. degree in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto. He is also a graduate of Second City’s improv comedy program.
