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Top Five Challenges for Senior Business Analysts
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This one day workshop is designed for the intermediate to advanced business analyst who is transitioning from the traditional mostly IT function of systems analysis into a more strategic business analysis role. The course will discuss the emerging role of the strategic business analyst, including the BA as a:

- Business Architect - Modeling the Business
- Facilitator - Conducting a Requirement Elicitation Workshops
- Strategist - Managing Project Value
- Politician - Dealing with Organizational Politics
- Professional - Developing Your BA Professionalism

Learning Objectives:

  • Model the business
  • Conduct a powerful requirements elicitation workshop
  • Develop and manage the business case during the project and post-deployment
  • Negotiate through organizational politics and increase the readiness of the organization to deploy new business solutions
  • Transition from business analyst to business leade

Skill Level: Intermediat/Advanced

Kathleen (Kitty) Hass, PMP

Management Concepts

Ms. Hass has more than 20 years experience in business analysis, project management office creation and management, business process re-engineering, organizational development, IT software development, technology deployment, project management training, mentoring, and team building in the Airline, Telecommunications, Retail, and Manufacturing industries, and in the Federal Government. She is a former certified Software Capability Examiner (SEI CMM), a certified Malcolm Baldrige Total Quality Award assessor, a certified Zenger-Miller facilitator, and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).