IIBA Local Chapter Welcomes You

1. IIBA Local Chapter Welcomes You Mehadi Sayed, President IIBA Edmonton Chapter

2. Greetings from IIBA Edmonton Chapter Executive • Veronica Chedid, VP Membership • Beverly Semeniuk, Treasurer • Bernie Dick, VP Marketing and Communications • Lennore Huddleston, VP Events • Dragana Rankov-Rasetic, Secretary • Jeanette Tajcnar, VP Education • Mehadi Sayed, President

3. Chapter Updates • Milestones • Future Plans • Industry Support

4. Role of Business Analyst • Featured presenter Jeannette Tajcnar will be presenting on the topic – Role of Business Analyst

5. Certification • News from the International IIBA: Significant progress in the release of Certification guidelines • Study Groups will be in place early next year • BABOK update

6. Marketing and Communications • IIBA Edmonton Website • Decided to custom-develop this Spring • Nearing completion … • Additions and corrections • Link from IIBA international • See http://www.iibaedmonton.org/ • Thanks to Iomer and Sam Jenkins

8. Marketing and Communications • IIBA Edmonton Newsletter • Going concern • published in conjunction with each General Meeting • Publishing process is documented • Looking for a new Volunteer • Newsletter, publicity • See Bernie Dick

9. Marketing and Communications • Sponsorship • Guidelines specific to IIBA Edmonton were completed this summer • Sponsors very supportive so far • We have not conducted a Sponsorship Drive • THANKS to our SILVER Sponsors • CGI – New sponsor • NAIT – for your continued support • See the website for all our sponsors • Marketing and Communications Plan • Will address recruiting sponsors • To Sponsors an upcoming event – see Bernie Dick

10. Knowledge Sharing • Future plans: • Users Groups • White Papers • Message Board • Members Only Portal • Best Practices

11. Membership • Create and Manage the Membership Recruitment Program • Develop Recruitment form for Chapter's prospective members • Develop Orientation Package for new members • Develop Recruitment form for sub-committees • Develop/Maintain Communication Strategies with members and executives • Liaise with current and prospective members • Maintain the Chapter's current and prospective members database • Develop and maintain the membership FAQ's document

12. What is in the binder:  • The evaluation form • The Membership frequently asked questions • The Chapter's info handout • The Chapter Membership application form • The International Membership application form  • Veronica’s business card

13. Feature Presentation • Jeanette Tajcnar

14. So You Want to be a Business Analyst Or You Already Are: What Does That Mean?

15. The Role • Three distinct types • The Strategist • The Business Systems Developer • The IT Systems Developer • The Goal of the Business Analyst • How Does the Business Analyst Achieve the Goal? • Where do I go From Here? • The Foundational Roles of Enterprise Architecture

16. The Role • A business analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. • The business analyst understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

17. Three Distinct Types • The Strategist • The Business Systems Developer • The IT Systems Developer

18. The Strategist Organizations need to focus on strategic matters on a more or less continuous basis in the modern business world. Business analysts, serving this need, are well-versed in analyzing the strategic profile of the organization and its environment, advising Senior Management on suitable policies, and the effects of policy decisions. BA’s performing this role are sometimes called Management Consultants

19. Business Systems Developer Organizations may need to introduce change to solve business problems which may have been identified by the strategic analysis, referred to above. Business analysts contribute by analyzing objectives, processes and resources, and suggesting ways by which, re-design (BPR), or improvements (BPI) could be made.

20. Business Systems Developer Soft skills • such as knowledge of the business, • Requirements engineering, • Stakeholder Analysis Hard skills • Business Process Modeling. Although the role requires an awareness of technology and its uses, it is not an IT-focused role.

21. Business Systems Developer Three elements are essential to this aspect of the business analysis effort: • the redesign of core business processes; • the application of enabling technologies to support the new core processes; and • the management of organizational change. This aspect of business analysis is also called "business process improvement" (BPI), or "reengineering

22. IT Systems Developer Align IT development activity with Business Systems development activity. A long-standing problem in business is how to get the best return from IT investments, which are generally very expensive and of critical, often strategic, importance. IT departments, aware of the problem, often create a Business Analyst role to better understand, and define the requirements for their IT systems. Although there may be some overlap with the "Business Systems Developer" role, the focus is always on the IT part of any change process, and generally, this type of business analyst gets involved, only when a case for change has already been made and decided upon.

23. Goal of the Business Analyst • Ultimately, business analysts want to produce the following outcomes: • Reduce waste and complete projects on time • Improve efficiency • Document the right requirements

24. How Does the Business Analyst Achieve the Goal? • Document the Right Requirements • Listen carefully to customer feedback • Define the right application • Deliver complete set of clear requirements to the technical architects and coders who will write the program

25. The Right Tools and Skills • chances are fairly high that he will end up documenting requirements that will not be used or that will need to be re-written • The time wasted to document unnecessary requirements not only impacts the business analyst, it also impacts the rest of the development cycle

26. Where do I go From Here? • Find appropriate training from a post secondary institution: • NAIT • University of Alberta • Nexient (CDI) • University of Lethbridge • Join the IIBA and study the BABOK • Offer to do facilitation and requirements gathering for a volunteer organization.

27. The Foundational Roles of Enterprise Architecture • The business analyst and the systems analyst are foundational to building a sound enterprise architecture* • *Gartner 2005

29. Update From Previous Activities • Lennore Huddleston

30. Upcoming Events

31. Election Announcement - Darren Zinyk

32. Prize Draw by Bernie Dick

33. Thank You For Your Support!