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Are you ready for a challenge and an opportunity? As conference Vice-President, my team and I would like to offer both. We have prepared one of the most unique combinations of sessions and workshops available to you across North America.

As Project Managers and/or Business Analysis Professionals, you are often tasked with managing teams, predicting shifting scenarios and ensuring careful direction, all while understanding the importance of the bottom line. Our conference, ProjectWorld*BusinessAnalystWorld is designed to create scenarios that deliver these skill-set enhancing situations.

Whether it’s through classroom-style sessions by recognized experts and innovators or peer-to-peer casual conversations, the learning process will be natural and above all, fun!

Along with gaining knowledge and making new acquaintances, it’s important to remind you that we are a PMI® and IIBA Registered Education Provider. Attendees can claim one credit for every hour of education, up to 26 in total over 4 days, which goes a long way to renewing your certification.

I encourage you to take advantage of all the learning and networking opportunities this event provides. Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions!

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Rakhi Henderson Entegrity Consulting Group

Navneet Khehra Ministry of Government Services

Eunice Masterson Scotiabank

Rob Parisius RBC

Jason Bunston City of Toronto

Marc Blanchette Past President, PMI Southern Ontario Chapter

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Renu Chowdhury IT Source | Central Agencies I&IT Cluster Treasury Board Secretariat

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2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

GETTING TO SUCCESS: EMBRACING CHANGE, ENCOURAGING DISRUPTION, AND INCENTIVIZING INNOVATION

LIVIN’ LIFE LARGE - THE COFFEE TALK EXPERIENCE

SET YOUR GPS FOR SUCCESSTHE IMPORTANCE OF TEAMWORK

In this insightful and useful talk, Michele recounts her journey from a Queen’s University undergrad to becoming ranked in WXN’s “100 Most Powerful in Canada” and listed as a Forbes’ “Millennial on a Mission”, sharing along the way the lessons she’s learned as one of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs, including the necessity of embracing change, encouraging disruption, and incentivizing innovation at every stage of the game.

Get ready to get outa-the-box and try something a bit different. Coffee Talk is not your typical “stand and deliver” Keynote session. It is fun, interactive and requires everyone in the audience to connect with one another in an active and fun way. Coffee Talk integrates Tyler’s over two decades as a master experiential team designer and facilitator into a super engaging event that will not soon be forgotten. For example, you will learn together how to connect and cultivate your online project team, explore the depth of the PM and BA network in the room, learn new tools for building your team with intelligence, and practice getting to know someone a bit better. Plus, PMs and BAs will receive a host of road ready and tested team tools that they can use immediately with their teams. This session comes complete with engaging activities, academic content, hilarious stories, and one-of-a-kind experiences for all in attendance. Join the new revolution of meetings and nix the stand and deliver as we inject gamification and team tools to orient Project Managers and Business Analysts towards building better project teams.

These days, if you want to get someplace fast, with no wrong turns, you just program your car’s GPS and follow the commands. You choose a destination, then your GPS calculates the route from where you are to where you want to go and then it guides you to get there. Your brain works the exact same way: Choose where you want to go, and your subconscious takes over from there. Trouble is, your subconscious is also a storage area for habits and beliefs that either keep you on track or throw you off course. If you don’t program it for success, you’ll never reach your destination. Wayne Lee helps you access and harness the power of your GPS for optimal performance at work and at home. This presentation opens your mind to melt away stress and negative interference. This presentation helps reveal what’s possible when you program your GPS for success.

Toronto Argonauts former coach and player Michael “Pinball” Clemons is a man of unquestionable character and spirit. His football career was characterized by incredible perseverence and great skill. At only 5’6” and 170 pounds, he won against all odds. He succeeded while others predicted failure, gave more when less would have been satisfactory. He exemplifies the capabilities of teamwork and leadership while demonstrating what it means to beat the odds. “Pinball” will share his past experiences to illustrate how people can overcome obstacles and achieve success. In his deeply moving and inspirational talk, he will speak about personal perseverance and the importance of teamwork, which is relevant to any industry.

Michele Romanow “Dragon”, CBC’s Dragons’ Den Co-Founder & President, Clearbanc

Tyler HaydenMotivational Speaker

Wayne LeePeak Performance Expert

Michael “Pinball” ClemonsCanadian Sports Hall-of-Famer

TUESDAY MAY 28 | 8:30AM - 9:45AMMONDAY MAY 27 | 8:30AM - 9:45AM

MONDAY MAY 27 | 3:45PM - 5:00PM TUESDAY MAY 28 | 3:45PM - 5:00PM


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Schedule at-a-glanceMonday May 27, 2019

Schedule at-a-glanceMonday May 27, 2019

8:30 am -9:45 am

8:30 am -9:45 am

9:45 am - 10:15 am SPONSOR SHOWCASE SPONSOR SHOWCASE 9:45 am -

10:15 am

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGE-MENT BUSINESS ANALYSIS BUSINESS ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY AGILE SHARED SKILLS SHARED SKILLS

1 0:15 am -11:15 am

Leading Large and Complex TransformationsWilson RamirezProjectAdvisor.com

Journey of DevOps: It is more about cultureSaby WaraichCity of Portland

How to Become a Full Stack Business AnalystJoanne Tudor &Brian CollinsmedCPU

Business Analysis Skills and Competencies in the Digital AgeJared GoraiIIBA

Don’t Manage Projects, Orchestrate Work: How leading companies are using workplace technologies to get ahead of their competitionJay GoldmanSensei Labs

The Truth About Job Titles In ScrumDave West Scrum.org

Cross-Team Collaboration is Hard! Tips & Tricks to Help Solve DividesBruce Gay UPMC Enterprises

What’s in Your Communications Engine?David BarrettSolutions Network

1 0:15 am -11:15 am

11:30 am -12:30 pm

Power of Integrating Project, Process and Change Management to Maximize Business ValueFarzad KhanStrategicFront

Hook Up With Your Vendor: The Dating Guide to Relationship ManagementTony JosevskiPasation Inc.

Lunch

5 key lessons learned in our most recent agile implementations – and how we are training our new business analyst’s going forward!Chris Spraakman Mohawk college

Puneet Abbi Accenture

Lunch Lunch

Ugly Babies, and What To Do With ThemVince MirabelliGlobal Project Synergy Group

Overcoming the Hurdles of DistractionJimmy GodardBank of America

11:30 am -12:30 pm

12:45 pm -1:45 pm

Project Managers Must Be Stopped: the Untold truth About ChangeSiobhan Brown-CalderbankIntelex

Future of Project Management and Artificial IntelligenceMashhood Ahmed Sidra Medicine

Lunch

From Business Analysts to Business Architects: Journey from the Known Unknown to the Unknown UnknownJoanne Dong JDStream Management Consulting

Lunch

Enabling Business AgilityRoger BurltonProcess Renewal Group

How to be the MVP of your UVP (Unique Value Proposition). The top 3 ways to market yourself better so you get oppor-tunities/advancement

Leslie Hughes Punch Media

Hans EckmanEckman Guides

Lunch12:45 pm -1:45 pm

2:00 pm -3:00 pm

Move Forward with 360-Degree ThinkingJimmy GoddardBank of America

Are You The One? - The 11 Critical Skills of Process ProsVincent MirabelliGlobal Project Synergy Group

BA Behavioral Characteristics: How do you demonstrate trustworthiness (and other desirable traits)?John DavisAviva Canada

Key Process Tools for Business AnalystsSasha AganovaProcess Renewal Group

Using Metrics as Your CompassNeil PetersonNeil Peterson

Tried Scrum and Kanban? How about Scrumban!Kiron BondaleWorld Class Productivity Inc.

Analyzing Innovation Across Business LinesSteve Palmer Ever Evolving Inc.

Why Don’t we just Shut the VUCA Up - Learning How to Navigate a World of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity & AmbiguityRich Batchelor Capillary Consulting

2:00 pm -3:00 pm

3:15 pm -4:30 pm

3:15 pm -4:30 pm

4:45 pm -6:00 pm ProjectWorld*BusinessAnalsystWorld Networking Reception and Sponsor Showcase 4:45 pm -

6:00 pm

LIVIN’ LIFE LARGE -THE COFFEE TALK EXPERIENCE

SET YOUR GPS FOR SUCCESS


Wayne LeePeak Performance Expert


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8:30 am -9:45 am

8:30 am -9:45 am

9:45 am - 10:15 am SPONSOR SHOWCASE SPONSOR SHOWCASE 9:45 am -

10:15 am

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT BUSINESS ANALYSIS BUSINESS ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY AGILE SHARED SKILLS SHARED SKILLS

1 0:15 am -11:15 am

The Awful Truth, and How it Can Help Run a ProjectEunice MastersonScotiabank

Mitchell Fong BMO

Project Management Vision by 2025: Your Five-Year PlanAlexander StanisicGlobal Knowledge

Be A Superhero in the fight against scope creepJosh Greenberg &Sheane RobinsonUniversity of Maryland University College

Help me help you! How to ask good questions fast!Jamie ChampagneChampagne Collaborations

Digital TransformationBob PrentissBob the BA/The Uncommon League

Benefits Realization in an Agile WorldDave DavisOhio Health

Don’t Adopt the Monkey: Leadership Secrets for You, Your Projects and Your TeamSaby Waraich City of Portland

Shaping Your Hiring Process to Attract Top Talent (Hiring /Job Description /Interviewing Tips for Managers) Erika Woods

Cate Murray Apex Systems

1 0:15 am -11:15 am

11:30 am -12:30 pm

Mapping Your PM Skills to an Agile EnvironmentClinton AgesCoach Clinton

PMO Leader: The Storyteller & The ArtistHussain BandukwalaParwaaz Consulting Corporation

Strategic TransformationPaul Crosby Bob the BA / The Uncommon League

BA Tooling Best PracticesTom O’ReillySparx Systems Pty Ltd.

Lunch Lunch

7 Trends That will Dramatically Change BusinessHans EckmanEckman Talks

Leading from the Middle: Influencing & Delivery in Tricky ProjectsAdrian ReedBlackmetric Business Solutions

11:30 am -12:30 pm

12:45 pm -1:45 pm Lunch

The Project Management Ecosystem is Changing by the Day – Are you Ready?David Barrett Solutions Network

Think Like Your Customer? It’s Crazy Enough to WorkJosh Greenberg &Sheane RobinsonUniversity of Maryland University College

Lunch

20 Visio Tips in 60 MinutesScott HelmersHarvard Computing Group

Agile Scrum: An Overview (Originally) for The Board of Directors of an Entertainment CompanyScott GraffiusExceptional PPM and PMO Solutions

15 Traits of Top PerformersErica Woods Cate Murray Apex Systems

Innovation: The New Currency of BusinessSteve Palmer Ever Evolving Inc. 12:45 pm -

1:45 pm

2:00 pm -3:00 pm

Project Knowledge Management… a Better WayAndrew Sinclair totaliQ

The Bartender’s Guide to Project ManagementDaniel Simon Where’s Your Road, LLC

Willy Wonka & the User Story FactoryClinton AgesCoach Clinton

The Art of GamificationJennifer BattanOut of the Box BA/ The Uncommon League

Share what?? What’s the point of SharePoint??Jamie Champagne Champagne Collaborations

Tailoring Agile – Reality and What the PMBOK SaysDave DavisOhio Health

Tell your Career Story and give STAR answers!Ryland Leyton Aptos.com

The 5 Most Important Moments In Your CareerBob PrentissBob the BA/The Uncommon League

2:00 pm -3:00 pm

3:15 pm -4:30 pm

3:15 pm -4:30 pm

Schedule at-a-glanceTuesday May 28, 2019

Schedule at-a-glanceTuesday May 28, 2019

GETTING TO SUCCESS: EMBRACING CHANGE, ENCOURAGING DISRUPTION, AND INCENTIVIZING INNOVATION

THE IMPORTANCE OF TEAMWORK

Michele Rowmanow“Dragon”, CBC’s Dragons’ Den Co-Founder & President, Clearbanc

Michael “Pinball” ClemonsCanadian Sports Hall-of-Famer


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Workshop Schedule at-a-glanceWednesday May 29 | 8:30am - 4:30pm

10,000 FOOT OVERVIEW ON BENEFITS REALIZATION AND PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGEMENT

DEVOPS WITH SIMULATION

INTEGRATING DESIGN THINKING ON YOUR PROJECTS

A VISIO MASTER CLASS

BEING A SUCCESSFUL CHANGE AGENT – BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER ENGAGING OTHERS TO BUILD POSITIVE CHANGE

LEADERS PACK

Dave Davis Ohio Health

Saby Waraich City of Portland

Bruce GayUPMC Enterprises

Scott Helmers Harvard Computing Group

Jamie Champagne Champagne Collaborations


PROJECTMANAGEMENT

BUSINESSANALYSIS SHARED AGILE

Key stakeholders, Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Program Managers have a role in defining business improvement opportunities, analyzing work in progress, and report current status of business improvement “projects”. This session will explore Benefits Realization and how it is an important subset of Program and Project Management. It will cover a definition of Benefits, a discussion on the currency of the benefits, and conclude with an interactive definition of a benefit in a Benefit Realization Plan. Designed for Business Professionals at all levels, this will cover an in-demand skill for PPPM professionals in the 2010’s and beyond. This seminar will focus exclusively on Benefits Realization in conjunction with the Program Management Standard. The session

will cover telling the Business Improvement story through Benefits Identification, Analysis and Planning, Realization, and Transition to operations.

Learning Objectives• Integrate the ying/yang relationship among

the overall program plan, the program/project roadmap and benefits realization package using a progressive elaboration approach

• Understand the roles, responsibilities and purpose of transitioning benefits to Operations

• Provide common structure to communicate Benefits across the Program

The DevOps simulation experience is a role-based workshop, focused on the software development and deployment lifecycle. The simulation is highly realistic, and leverages game dynamics to empower cross-functional teams with a shared vision of successful DevOps practices. Participants from a variety of disciplines are immersed into a simulated environment whereby they are challenged to release new products while internal and external forces continually change. This realistic approach

delivers a level of tension and excitement that creates an ‘A-HA!’ moment for all involved.

Learning Objectives• Accelerated understanding of the benefits of

DevOps best practice to large audiences• Rapid familiarization with DevOps terminology

and Agile, Lean and ITIL v3 processes• Understanding of DevOps practices that can

be executed with immediate effect

Design Thinking has emerged as a major trend for how innovative organizations and teams are approaching problem-solving. This hand-on, interactive workshop explores the intersection between Design Thinking and Project Manage-ment. Participants should bring their “creative” sides as the workshop will include rapid-fire sketching exercises and several individual and group hands-on exercises to learn various design methods for user research, idea generation, visualization and prototyping.

Learning Objectives• Identify and apply Design Thinking techniques

for improving benefits realization and project success

• Apply Design Thinking techniques for user research and requirements elicitation

• Describe the benefits of incorporating design methodologies on projects for increased customer alignment and business impact

Visio is a powerful tool that the majority of Business Analysts and Project Managers have used. However, most of us learned Visio because we needed to do one or two specific tasks, and few of us have taken the time to explore all of the other things Visio can do. In this workshop, you will have time to investigate all of those other features! You will discover ways to add incredible value to your diagrams, and you will learn handy tips and

tricks from the guy who wrote the book about Visio.Learning Objectives• Discover powerful Visio features you didn’t

know existed• Turn ordinary diagrams into dashboards by

adding icons, callouts, and shape colors• Make Visio diagrams available on tablets,

PCs, smart phones, and iPads

This hands-on working session aims to give attendees innovative approaches to techniques to work WITH stakeholders for measurable results. Learn how to structure a measurable and actionable plan for working with stakeholders while improving your own skill by practicing elicitation, problem resolution and dealing with conflict that enable change efforts. Then measure, deliver and report on positive change efforts well beyond the basic lesson learned session while having some fun!

Learning Objectives• Learn how to structure a measurable and

actionable plan for working with stakeholders while improving your own skills

• Practice innovative approaches techniques that help you work well with stakeholders including but not limited to elicitation, problem resolution and dealing with conflict

• Measure, deliver and report on positive change efforts well beyond the basic lesson learned session

Take your team from Good to Great by developing their soft skills. Join expert facilitator and team builder Tyler Hayden as shows you ways to hand craft your project team into a highly cohesive unit. For over 15 years businesses like yours have trusted Tyler to move their people in some extraordinarily different ways. Leader’s Pack is based on experiential and adventure based learning, and then blended with Tyler’s exclusive MIQ design tool. It is a program that helps project managers get more out of their team without breaking a sweat. Effective project teams need trust, respect, and camaraderie to get the job done. Building that requires sustainable actions that are logical and learner focused. That’s where

this team-building workshop comes in! Come and explore some fun and efficient ways to get your group to know each other, improve collegial relationships, communicate more effectively and get the job done right the first time. Explore some out of the box, unique team building ideas for getting your group to work together. You’ll learn team building theory and rubber to the road activities that are ready to implement like: how to build team albums, find commonalities, and much more. This session will help you find some activities that will help to build meaningful relationships within your project team’s working environment. If you’re ready to be outside the box, then you’re ready to jump into Tyler’s Leader’s Pack.


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Workshop Schedule at-a-glanceWednesday May 29 | 8:30am - 4:30pm

SYSTEMS THINKING: A CRUCIAL BA SKILL IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD

THINK YOU KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER’S NEEDS? THINK AGAIN. LEARN SUREFIRE BUSINESS ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING YOUR CUSTOMER’S PROBLEMS AND PRIORITIES AND KEEPING THEM AT THE CENTER OF YOUR PROJECT

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS, DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS

Adrian Reed Blackmetric Business Solutions Josh Greenberg

University of Maryland University College

Sheane Robinson University of Maryland University College

Bob Prentiss Bob the BA

PROJECTMANAGEMENT


The external business environment is moving fast, and the ability to create organisations that can adapt and learn is crucial. Yet, so often our stakeholders are blindsided by sickly-sweet silver-bullet solutions that assume a neat linear relationship between cause and effect. Yet rarely are things so simple, and increasingly we need to think systemically. In this practical and hands-on session, you will

hear about the importance of systems thinking in a business analysis context.

Learning Objectives• Understand the relevance of systems

thinking in business analysis• Apply a range of systems thinking techniques• Understand the situations where systems

thinking techniques are most appropriate

Learn business analysis techniques that drive project focus onto your end customers. It is too easy for projects to lose this focus, and instead solve only the sponsor’s issues, making the end customer an afterthought. This workshop will change your perspective and ensure your future engagements are organized for customer success. Come learn a new slant on the saying, ‘the customer [focus] is always right.’

Learning Objectives• Learn how to identify the right problems so

that customer needs are met• Learn how to ensure the project is solving

the right customer problems• Learn how to prioritize project objectives to

ensure customer success

More and more, roles in organizations demand more technical savvy. Everyone is talking about digital transformation. Technology is rapidly changing to meet those needs and in turn, is changing how we need to approach our roles and the requirements that drive product changes. The term “Technical Requirements” is not an industry standard yet they seem to be cropping up more and more. What is the best way to handle these Technical Requirements? Who should own them? How can we analyze them? Are you ready for your technical future? Come join us for a fun-filled day to learn about Technical Requirements,

discover what they really are, are not, and how to document them.

Learning Objectives• Define what Technical Requirements are• Define what digital transformation is• Break down the myths behind Technical

Requirements• Understand the need to become more

technical in your role• Learn how to document Technical

Requirements• Understand how to approach analysis of

more technical projects

STORY MAPPING - THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN PRODUCT ROADMAPS AND BACKLOGS THE AGILE EXPERIENCE

Kiron BondaleWorld Class Productivity Inc.

Ryland Leyton Aptos.com

Have you ever struggled to take your product owner’s vision and translate that into a backlog? This workshop will provide you with hands-on experience in taking a simulated product from a high level vision down to product and release backlogs ensuring that nothing is missed and the negotiation process around release scope is collaborative rather than being destructive.

Learning Objectives• Understand how story mapping can

resolve multiple challenges with product management

• Learn how to develop a story map and use it plan release content

• Understand the different options for structuring story maps and the tools for developing one

The Agile Experience introduces Agile to you in a friendly, learning-by-doing, gamified environment. No matter who you are or what your background is, you’ll leave this session understanding why businesses often chose to work in Agile ways, how Agile teams operate, and what benefits and challenges this presents to an organization.

Learning Objectives• Experience and gain understanding of an

agile work environment through hands-on activity

• Understand, roles, responsibilities, benefits and challenges present in the agile software lifecycle

• Be introduced to some organizational factors that help and hinder agile implementations


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Workshop Schedule at-a-glanceThursday May 30 | 8:30am - 4:30pm

A BUSINESS ANALYST AND A PROJECT MANAGER WALK INTO AN AGILE BAR

Jennifer Battan, Out of the Box BA/ The Uncommon LeaguePaul Crosby, Bob the BA / The Uncommon League

PROJECTMANAGEMENT


Sounds like the start of a good story. The most common problem facing Agile practitioner isn’t the basics – its how it all fits together on a typical project. How does an Agile project get started? Once it’s gets started, how do you plan it in sprint zero? How do you pull an Agile sprint back from the brink of failure? What’s the best way to show status on a sprint? In this workshop we take you on a ride through a typical Agile project with all the turns and twists along the way from planning, epics, theme, user stories, backlogs, spikes, status and risk. Resource Management issues? We got that covered too. Understand how the pieces of Agile fit together into a process and how to use it effectively. Learn how a Busi-ness Analyst and Project Manager can fit into Agile. Bring your toughest situations. Let’s roll up our sleeves and work through them in this

interactive journey through an Agile project. This workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced Agile practitioners.

Learning Objectives• Walk through an Agile project from

beginning to the end in this interactive fast paced workshop that will bring deeper understanding to how the Agile fundamentals fit together into an efficient process

• Learn how to pull sprint back from the brink of failure and manage risk in an Agile environment

• Discover new approaches to techniques to manage communication, expectations setting, status reporting, resource management, and much more

7 WAYS TO BECOME A RECOGNIZED THOUGHT LEADER AND LINCHPIN

DIGITAL PROCESS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN: OPTIMIZING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

BADASS BUSINESS ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES!

Hans Eckman Eckman Guides

Leslie Hughes Punch Media

Roger Burlton Process Renewal Group

Bob Prentiss Bob the BA/The Uncommon League

Stop missing out on opportunities to work on better projects or teams, get promoted, or spend more time doing what you love. In this session, we’ll help you stand out in a crowd and exploit your uniqueness to improve your opportunities and quality of life at work. We will examine seven patterns and approaches to transform you from a solid task contributor to a recognized solution leader. Learn how to: • Expand your toolbox to deliver new value

to your teams

• Model desired behaviours and techniques in your target position

• Build your professional brand through social platforms and proactive networking

Learning Objectives• Expand your toolbox to deliver new value to

your teams• Model desired behaviours and techniques in

your target position• Build your professional brand through social

platforms and proactive networking

Going digital does not mean that sound analysis and design of the end to end experience has passed. Connecting all the actions required, means more dots to connect between customers and ourselves. This relies upon professional practices of integrated design. Business Architects and Business A nalysts must follow sound yet modern professional practices of process analysis and design tuned for a digital world.

This seminar will help you optimize the customer’s process journey in a digital world.

Learning Objectives• Learn how process design is different for

digitalization• Learn how to connect all the dots: Process

and data• Practice using a case study throughout

the class

Badass Business Analysis techniques? You might be thinking “Cool! What are those?” or “I know lots of techniques already so this ses-sion probably is not going to be of any help”. Before you make any decisions, let me ask you the following question: Do any of the state-ments below ring true regarding a meeting you either recently attended or facilitated?• The attendees during the brainstorming

session were all zombified by the approach and the results.

• The icebreaker was frozen solid and “Let It Go” was all anyone could say.

• The decision model failed to make a decision and everyone muttered “thanks for wasting my time” as they left the room.

• The process modeling session took so long someone literally fell asleep at the table.

If you have seen or experienced any of those scenarios, you might want to rethink the techniques you are using. Businesses today are changing rapidly. The same old techniques that you have been using may not be living up to the agility and speed required to succeed in this new dynamic marketplace of change. Are

you ready to learn and practice some new and very helpful techniques you have never heard of before? Are you ready to expand your frame of reference and re-look at how you facilitate? It does not take a Badass Business Analyst to learn these new techniques, but if you are willing, you are well on your way to becoming a Badass Business Analyst! Gone are the days when negotiations involved plaid suits, cigars, flashy ties and the manipulative “negotiation” tactics used in that era. In a global market-place where clients have unlimited access to information and choices, professionals focus on building partnerships and long-term relationships with their clients, suppliers, business partners and colleagues.

Learning Objectives• New techniques that most Business Analysts

have not heard of• Why some tried and true techniques still fail• An in-depth look at a few techniques that are

tried out in the session


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CHARTING A COURSE THROUGH THE INNOVATION MINEFIELD

THE BA TOOLKIT FOR CLOUD-ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS

THINGS YOU WISH THE BOOKS TOLD YOU - SCOPING SKILLS!

USING AGILE TECHNIQUES IN AN IT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT SIMULATION

Steve Palmer Ever Evolving Inc.

Christian Sioui Blue Brain Corp

Heather Mylan-Mains BAs Without Borders

Dave Davis Ohio Health

Success in life and in business all starts with a plan. Innovation is no different. Yet too many businesses don’t properly plan for innovation, instead viewing it as a serendipitous act delivered straight from the business gods into the unexpecting laps of Corporate Executives. This presentation will talk through the major muscle movements involved in successful innovation planning, while identifying the necessary tools, tips, tricks, and techniques to implement it. We will walk through how

an organization can identify areas ripe for innovation.Learning Objectives• How to make innovation perpetual by baking

it into your corporate culture• The major focuses for any innovation frame-

work and the value the organization receives from them

• How to identify ideas that are worthy to invest in, and how to know when to stop investing in them

This workshop helps Business Analysts to understand how their world changes when their project is a cloud-hosted application or a hybrid model between on-premises systems with a cloud-architecture. Attendees learn how to adapt their requirement elicitation techniques, how to modify their requirements documentation, identify when their require-ment documentation is “good enough”, and learn how to create requirement visualizations

in order to capture business stakeholders requests.

Learning Objectives• Learn to document requirements with

cloud-based architecture• Learn to model requirements in order to

create visualization• Learn to adapt your traditional BA artifacts

for cloud-based architecture

Have you ever read a book or attended a class and thought, “Wow that is amazing, but I don’t know how this applies to my work?” This workshop will focus on applying scoping techniques! Learn to apply context data flow diagrams, structured problem statements and more with hands-on guidance for your work project. Through actual work examples that you are encouraged to bring or the examples Heather shares, students will apply scoping

techniques and practice them in the context of their work!

Learning Objectives• Understand what analysis scoping

techniques are• Apply analysis techniques to your work• Create work products that apply to your

work

Many PMO portfolios are over 30% Infrastructure projects. These PMOs wantto use Agile for infrastructure projects and realize: waste reduction, faster turn-around, and better prioritization. This workshop involves simulating a hospital network upgrade using a KANBAN approach. When done, you will have a new network. You will have: created stories, used a product backlog, communicated status, transitioned to operations, delivered benefits, and completed a workshop retrospective.

Learning Objectives• Explore several Agile practices (Scrum,

Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD) and their compatibility with Infrastructure projects

• Prepare radiators and other status reporting tools to communicate the plan, the iterations, and the progress/status of the project

• Use a Kanban approach to complete a simulation to upgrade a network infrastructure in a hospital including: new network switches, upgrade to Medical Grade Wireless, Firewall installation, VPN access, and video clinical care services

FROM A GOOD PROJECT MANAGER TO A GREAT LEADER

IMPROVING YOUR CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING

David BarrettSolutions Network

Vincent Mirabelli Global Project Synergy Group

You are a good, even great, Project Manager that can deliver results on time, on budget and within the scope of the Project Manager repeatedly. Your organization loves you and relies on you. Did you know that when we look for tomorrow’s leaders, one of the key elements that organizations find so difficult to find is what you have in spades: the ability to execute, to get the work done and to deliver on a plan. This workshop will put aside the skills and knowledge you need to have to be

a good Project Manager and focus on what you need to be a great leader.

Learning Objectives• Develop a personal strategic plan to move

from a manager to a leader• Understand where your gaps are and what

you need to do to fill them• Recognize your strengths and learn how to

leverage them

“If nothing changes, then nothing changes” The world of business, and by extension Project Management and Business Analysis, has changed dramatically in recent years, with new tools, techniques and technologies replacing old, obsolete ones. So why do we cling then to outdated ideas and approaches to problem solving? In “Improving Your Creative and Critical Thinking”, participants will learn how to define a problem, along with several new techniques for lateral thinking and complex problem solving (and a quick revisit to some traditional ones), which allow them to improve on their decision-making capabilities, through critical thinking, structured reasoning and creative problem analysis. Learn how to balance logic with invention, by understanding

the principles behind critical thinking and the tools used to arrive at the best solution, achieving maximum value for you, your projects and your organization.

Learning Objectives• Understand the stages of thought and

thinking, and the difference between creative and critical thinking

• Apply the decision-making process in both individual circumstances, and within a team

• Determine which decision solution is best, and how to determine what “best” means for your problem, and apply innovation and creativity to the development of your decisions

Workshop Schedule at-a-glanceThursday May 30 | 8:30am - 4:30pm

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employees who received training are more productive than those who did not receive training.

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