Business Analyst World - Calgary : Call for Presentations

Response to Call for Presentations Due Date
November 14, 2011

Submission Overview

Diversified Business Communications, in partnership with the IIBA, Calgary Chapter, is currently accepting presentation proposals for BusinessAnalystWorld to be held in Calgary on May 7, 8 and 9, 2012 at the Calgary Stampede Roundup Centre. This is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with other business professionals involved in the business of business analysis, requirements management AND project management as it relates to the practice of requirements gathering and managing.

The sessions are 60 minutes each. They should include at least 20 minutes of audience participation in the form of questions and answers, debate or other interaction. Each speaker will receive free admission to the Symposium conference (a $875 value). We do not pay travel nor accommodation expenses. The proposals that will interest us the most will be focused on lessons learned and stories from the field, tips, tricks and traps - anything that offers the attendee something that will make them better at their job tomorrow.

Please use our online submission form to send us your proposals: http://www.divcomevents.com/public/project/call-for-papers-login.php

Each submission must include the following information:

• Speaker name and coordinates
• Presentation title & Description
• 3 learning points or take-away points
• Intended audience - advanced or beginner/intermediate

We are open to any ideas for presentations:

• Centre of Excellence
• Community build from last year
• Change management
• Dealing with the Generational Gap - from both perspectives
• What hurts you session? Open Fish bowl - Lannon, Sewall, Samia
• BPM
• Agile
• Lean
• Soft skills - but just 1-2 nuggets to fit into a 1 hour session
  • SCRUM
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Negotiation
• Business Intelligence - Performance Management
• Use Case Modeling
• Creating Business Cases
• BAs and testing - what is our responsibility?
• The Career path of a BA - Fish Bowl?
• Distributed teams
• The Virtual BA
• How do we sell Agile
• Effective Story Writing
• How do we manage scope creep

• Business Architecture
• Requirements managements for SOA projects
• CMMI Level 2 and 3 for requirements managements: Case studies, testimonials and success stories
• Use case Evaluation
• Bridging the gap between a BA and an IT/ Data Architect
• How a BA can help for establishing and putting in place a Governance at the Corporate and project level
• Best practices and competencies for Enterprise Analysis: Case Study
• BA understanding the PM
• Open UP
• What process work for the BA
• Facilitation techniques for requirements gathering
• We should be banking our lessons learned - stop reinventing the wheel
• Mentoring the new BA
• Selling the BA role within your organization
• When should a BA enter the lifecycle of a project?
• Technical writing - a skill for all BA's?
• How to work with developers
• Communication skills of the BA
• Requirements gathering basics
• Proposing change with opposition
• QA people - requirements driven testing
• Good BA's make mistakes - admit it
• Estimating - BA's can help
• How long should the requirements phase be?
• Find those stakeholders - and now what ?
• Power without authority
• Strategic management needs the BA
• Tools - what is out there?
• Data modeling for the BA

BusinessAnalystWorld is owned and produced by Diversified Business Communications.
Contacts:
General Information / Media / Sponsorship
David Barrett, Conference Director
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Group Sales & Registration Questions
Merry Clayton
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Address: Diversified Business Communications,
421 Bentley Street, Unit 1
Markham, Ontario L3R 9T2 Canada