Many initiatives are positioned to fail before they even make it to delivery teams due a lack of basic “pre-emptive” business analysis at strategic planning and line-of-business leadership levels. The good news is, this gap, and adoption of agile delivery methods provide a great opportunity for business analysts to provide significant value while finding rewarding career growth paths.

During this session, we'll refer to industry research and observed evidence supporting the notion that strategic business analysis, partnering business leadership with trusted advisors with the business analysis skillset, will be the leap forward for business analysts to provide substantial business value.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain insights into typical pitfalls associated with how executive business stakeholders decide which projects will be worked and when, and how business analysts are uniquely positioned to help avoid or mitigate them.
• Learn how agile adoption is creating opportunities for business analysts to add value, about the skills necessary to take advantage of them, and ways to drive the influence of business analysis “up” into organizational leadership tiers.
• Learn about executive’s need for trusted advisors, and the unique characteristics business analyst bring to the table for filling that role to address “executive blind spots.”