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Presentation Title
Digging Deeper: Tested Techniques to Clarify Business Goals and Align Software Requirements with the Corporate Strategy
Description
In order to excel in their role, business analysts need to understand the business strategy and overarching goals their project is meant to support, and how success is going to be measured. Yet, oftentimes stakeholders get impatient to kick off a project, offering evasive answers to direct questions about its strategic direction. The result is a solution that solves the wrong problem and/or destroys value by negatively impacting other business processes or initiatives. This presentation teaches how to get stakeholders to share the information you need to align your requirements to corporate strategies and drastically increase the odds of your project delivering a solution that produces the desired business impact.
Learning Objective
Understand and apply tested approaches and interview techniques to ensure the business problem, parameters of the solution, and justification for the project are clearly defined and aligned with the overall business strategy before the requirements are documented.
Presenter
Adriana Beal has developed a successful career in business analysis and product management, having lead the investigation of business problems, defined winning solutions, and written requirements documents for a large number complex software projects. She is the principal consultant at Beal Projects LLC, where she helps SaaS companies and custom software development firms produce better software. Adriana is the designer of Crafting Better Requirements, a program that has helped hundreds of business analysts improve their requirements documentation and communication skills, and the host of the Business Analysis Leadership group, an online community that offers peer support and resources for managers of business analysts. She also has two ebooks largely adopted by the business analysis community.
