Posts Tagged ‘Business Analysts’

Calling all business analysts …

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Ever wonder how your salary compares with others in your field? How much difference does education, certifications or (gasp) even gender factor into your compensation?  You may be surprised.

Find out by taking part in our second annual Salary Survey, co-sponsored with IIBA and ASPE. The survey takes just a few minutes and is open for one month only.  Click here to take part.

By participating, you’ll have access to the results, which we’ll share with you in a live webinar in October.

Participation is open to business analysts worldwide, so we encourage you to share the link with all your colleagues, regardless of location.

For more information on the survey, read our press release here.

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Effective Requirements Elicitation Techniques

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Elicitation is the unique discovery process of gathering early stakeholder concepts and ideas. Elicitation requires a special skill set to invoke the responses required to produce a quality business specification document. Whether your organization fits traditional, iterative, or agile development approaches, this webinar focuses on developing good facilitation skills.

In this webinar, we will discuss how to:

• Improve facilitation, elicitation, and validation techniques
• Overcome reluctance to lead/facilitate elicitation sessions
• Recognize and develop essential elicitation traits and skills that include:
◦ Curiosity
◦ Fearlessness
◦ Questioning mind
◦ Attention to detail

Who Should Attend?

Business analysts, consultants, project managers, and anyone who is responsible for gathering business and user requirements.

Topics:

•Effective elicitation sessions
•Requirements definition process
•Critical elicitation skills
•Elicitation and validation preparation
•Elicitation techniques and pitfalls
•Gap analysis
•Scope/impact analysis
•Practice elicitation session
•Becoming proficient at elicitation/validation
•Reviewing results (web and documentation)

Watch it now!

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