NJ IIBA Calendar of Events 2010
The New Jersey Chapter presents the very best, informative meeting for Business Analysts. All events are free for members. Chapter Meetings include opportunities for networking, CBAP certification information and support, and great speakers on current topics.
A nominal fee of $15.00 will be charged for non-members.
Please take 30 seconds to let us know which venues you prefer for meetings.
March 18, 2010
Business Architecture's Role Within Enterprise Architecture
Presented by Terry Merriman
Enterprise Architecture consists of four key architectural views: business architecture; application architecture; data architecture; and infrastructure architecture.
This presentation will introduce all four, but will focus on the business architecture. In fact, many of the techniques to be discussed can be used for business modeling alone. However, the benefits increase exponentially when the business architecture is incorporated into the overall enterprise view.
Topics include:
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How to formally model the business architecture in precise and unambiguous manner so that it can be related to the other architectural views.
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How to map the business processes to the underlying technology for both current and future state plans.
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How to include business requirements and use cases in the business model, making them first class architectural elements.
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How to trace use cases to the technology elements that realize the use cases.
An exmple UML model will be used to demonstrate the discussion topics.
Terry Merriman is the President and Chief Architect of OAD Consulting, Inc. He has over thirty years in software development and founded OAD in 2000 to provide consulting and training services in the Enterprise Architecture space.
He has consulted with Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and Europe, providing training, on-the-job mentoring, and "front-line" consulting services on multi-million dollar projects. For the past ten years, he has also worked with clients to create architectural principles and guidelines and supporting toolsets to make designing systems that conform to the principles and guidelines the easiest path to take.
You can see the PowerPoint presentation here.
Location:
UPS
435 South Street
Morristown, NJ
April 15, 2010
Decision Behaviors for the Business Analysts: Increasing your Effectiveness
Presented by Tom Clarke
Understanding the 'business', effectively executing the methods and procedures of business analysis, and knowing the technology are all critical skills for being an effective Business Analyst. But those skills are not enough.
You, the professional Business Analyst, also need to make decisions in a way that builds trust and loyalty with you and your team; we call them "Decision Behaviors":
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What are the various ways that decisions are made?
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How do you build consensus when there are (strong) divergent opinions?
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How do you make sure that everyone follows through on the consensus decision?
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What can you do before management makes a decision that affects you?
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What can you do after the decision is made?
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And finally, what decision behavior is a 'career killer'?
Tom is the Director of Product Development and Sr. Account Executive at the Interpersonal Technology Group, a New York based training and consulting firm. He has more than 15 year's experience in learning, development, facilitation and IT training in a wide variety of business and educational areas. He has extensive experience in performance improvement, organizational effectiveness, coaching, recruiting, talent management, organizational development and leadership enrichment training in multiple industries and environments across the globe. In his earlier career, he was a senior leader in information technology for a large financial institution.
Location:
Microsoft (6th floor of the Prudential Building)
194 Wood Avenue South
Iselin, NJ
5:30 - 7:30
May 12th:
"Non Functional Requirements"
Presented by Roxanne Miller
Location: Jersey City
June 17th:
Business Analyst Career Forum
Location: TBD
August 15th:
"Writing Effective Use Cases"
Presented by: Tim O'Connor
Location: TBD
September 16th:
"Decision Modeling"
Presented by Barbara Von Halle
Location: TBD
October 21st:
Annual General Meeting
Speaker: Kathleen Barret, IIBA CEO
Location: TBD
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