• 6:00 - 6:30pm: Networking with other NWA business analysis practitioners
• 6:30 - 6:35pm: President’s Box
• 6:35 - 7:30pm: “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Business Analysts”
  • Heather Mylan-Mains, IIBA Board of Directors
  • Jared Gorai, Director of Regions and Chapters, IIBA

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Synopsis:
As Business Analysts, there are habits we can adopt for success. This interactive presentation will focus on how habits such as planning, stakeholder analysis, understanding the real problem, communication and others will transform a business analyst to a highly effective problem solving machine! The result of practicing these habits enables Business Analysts to be confident, effective, and deliver value to their stakeholders. Heather and Jared share real life lessons learned and examples to describe the habits and how they have made them successful as highly effective Business Analysts. Come and drink the KOOL-AID to adopt these habits!

About the Presenter – Heather:
Heather is from Des Moines, Iowa. She grew up there, pursued her bachelors and graduate degrees there and stayed to raise her family. She is a stimulus for change as a mom, a business analyst consultant as Past President of Central Iowa Chapter, VP Chapters IIBA® and currently Director on the Board of Directors and an instructor for B2T Training. Heather has worked as a Business Analyst long before there was a formal title. For the past 20 years, she has worked with a variety of project teams to identify and solve many problems and challenges in the financial services and insurance industries. Her experience includes: new system development, disaster recovery, time management and expense allocation, CRM system implementation and migration, document imaging and workflow implementation, compliance projects, process mapping, process reengineering, decision analysis, strategic planning and managing diverse teams. She has a passion for sharing the power of the Business Analyst role and promoting the importance of that role in every business. Under her leadership, the Central Iowa Chapter IIBA® has grown to be one of the most active chapters in the organization. The chapter was awarded the 2011 Inaugural IIBA Growth Chapter of the Year due to exceptional growth. Heather is a natural collaborator in her BA role and engages people at all levels in organizations. She has been fortunate to work through all the processes of business analysis in the SDLC and be able to participate in many roles in projects. There is no part of the RACI matrix she has not been responsible for! Heather has a BA in Accounting from Grand View College and an MBA from Drake University and is a CBAP®.

About the Presenter – Jared:
Jared loves being a Business Analyst and has done so in title for over 15 years with over 25 years of business and leadership experience in both the retail and energy sectors. He is a strong advocate for IIBA®, having served in various capacities with the Calgary IIBA Chapter as well as chairing the Volunteer Chapter Network. He joined IIBA in June of this year as the Director of Regions and Chapters.

He holds his Bachelor of Arts degree in French from the University of Calgary and the Certified Business Analysis Professional® (CBAP®) designation. He will take any chance possible to evangelize business analysis and will talk your ear off about the role and the profession should you allow him to do so